#immediately poems on Hello Poetry

Jeremy Betts Aug 29

How can I love anyone
When I hate myself so completely
"Can't love yourself means the lady's sung, love is done"
That's what they say face to face and back to me
I only feel real between the setting and rising sun
Daylight, she has no use for me
I run when I should stay, I stay when I should run
Any past lesson dissolves immediately
This current tale can stop being spun
I wish to fade to black discretely

©2024

#love #hate #real #need #run #desolve #lessons #immediately #life #done

Amanda Kay Burke Nov 2020

Baby Deer Legs

I have been trying to control the need
Escape ruthless desire
Hide fears within quiet looks
Start to falter and tire
For each time you leave my side
Another day crumple into a ball
Try to stand up by myself
Every attempt immediately fall
Way too wobbly to carry own weight
Legs always buckle and cave
Powerful devotion I feel for you
Holds me captive
A slave

When I try to regain balance I just get even unsteadier

#baby #deer #legs #life #live #walk #attempt #immediately #fall

celey Jul 2015

ask her

she doesn't talk about
how her dad left
immediately after finding out
about her existence
she doesn't talk about
how her mom ignored
the not so straight lines on her wrists
how she was never confronted
about self harming
why she's so loud
what she doesn't like
and does like
the bottle under her bed
why her curtains are always drawn
so close together
almost as tight as her throat constricts
when she's looked at
how her day's been
she doesn't talk about all that
because she's never asked.

#bed #talk #left #throat #loud #bottle #doesnt #tight #immediately #constricts

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