#pity poems on Hello Poetry

Stanley Wilkin Apr 2017

The Right Thing

What would you do
With a life in your hands?
Those begging eyes
Pleading for clemency
For an existence hanging in the balance.
So easy it would be
To let the knife drop
To let the bullet fly
Out of your control
Snuffing out another.
Would it satisfy you
To see the skin go pallid
The eyes glaze over
A carcass crumple to your feet?
Do you enjoy the thought
Of a mother weeping
A father distraught
A family rendered asunder
From your crime?
I pity you
The likes for which this decision is easy.
Just hope that if you ever find your life
In someone else’s hands
They know
The right decision to make.

This is not mine, but my youngest son's work. He is shy about publishing. His name is Stephen Francis.

#right #decision #empathy #pity

Rafael Melendez Apr 2017

The Truth

I tell you all of this with only the truth in mind.
I don't want your pity, your consolations, or those beautiful eyes looking down on mine.

I want you to understand what you're getting into, and I want you to accept that before I swallow you whole.

#pity #eyes #beautiful #truth

Heymi Roman Roman Apr 2017

Dearest Doppelgänger

How?
How come you look so similar
So similar to me?
Or do I look like you
And the opposites we have been born to be?
You,
Short, endowed, a sublime storm of art and chaos
Me,
Slender, twig-like, an anxious force of half-capabilities
The raven hair
The similar eyes
Not in color, but intuitive sight
Latched on to the first of our lives
And refusing to move forward
While constantly looking back at the past
You and I
Me and You
We are the same
As much as we are different beings, we are the same
And you hate me with such passion
The red of my blood would light your paintings on fire
I pity you with heavy hearts and immeasurable patience
I could drown in the ocean of your own tears.
But we are the same
And there is nothing we can do about it.
So I'll keep you in my thoughts
Dear doppelgänger
As I persist in yours.

#doppelgnger #jealousy #envy #pity #love #twohalves #jealous #oneday

Sally A Bayan Apr 2017

Pity

Pity him, or her...pity them
Pity those victims of devastation
And infestations
And molestation
Pity the children...those abandoned babies
But it is not enough...
Please...do something beyond pity.

Pity those in extreme poverty,
Suffering from incapabilities...
Pity those with agonizing hearts
Because of missing body parts
Marred, disfigured, debilitated
Physically,
Emotionally
Psychologically..
But, it is not enough
Please...do something beyond pity.

Pity even those with aching hearts
Devastated, with broken hearts
Who find it difficult to heal
Believe again, a cruel world, so real.

Be guided,in reflecting,
There are others more deserving,
Beware of those who are self-serving
Know who are in most need of caring
Know that, beyond pity, there's more to be done
Much can be done...If we all try to be one.

Sally

Copyright April 6, 2017
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan

#abandonedbabies #abusedchildren #molestation #devastation #incapabilities #pity #npmimportant

#pity #molestation #devastation #incapabilities #npmimportant #abandonedabusedchildren

Heymi Roman Roman Apr 2017

What You Are to Me

Be the amber stone I wear around my neck
So your presence weighs upon me
Be the noose that's not too loose
Like a hairband too tight to pull through
Be the virus in my body
That no medication can treat
Be the white noise in my head
So I can't properly think
Be the darkness of my shadow
So I feel you loom as the hours pass
Be that sensation before I sneeze
So I feel you linger when my nose hits the breeze
Be the God to my religion
So I can feel you all around me
Be the devil in the details
To feel your curses smite me
Do not, however, be my downfall
Even though you already are
By being the haunting of my waking thoughts
You've left me considering your skin with my scars

#people #pity #jealousy #metaphors #impression #binary #parasite #symbiotic #jealousypoems

Brett Palmero May 2017

It's Easy Pt 6

It's easy to go to sleep
And say everything's okay
When you don't cry anymore

It's easy to be comforted
By friends that care
When the bond is built on pity

It's easy to get back up
After falling down
When the hole isn't that deep

It's easy to be sad
And cry out for help
When help is always there

It's easy to ignore your problems
And pretend it's ok
When someone else is solving them

It's hard to change
And become someone better
When you think nothing's wrong

#depression #life #cry #hurt #change #hard #help #pity #easy #better

morning glory Mar 2017

A Silhouette That Isn't In Your Head

“I wonder what it’s like to love you.” You say as we’re lying in my bed.

“I wouldn’t know,” I say, “I don’t think anybody ever has.”

And you give me a pitiful smile, the kind you always give when I
say something so negative about myself.

I guess I’m glad I’ve come to think of it as ‘commitment’ rather than ‘pity’.

I’ve let myself drown in you. I let myself become lost in your lifeless eyes

and I’m filled with regrets but I don’t regret a thing. Maybe I Regret Breathing.

You’ll let my ghost linger, just for awhile longer. You’ll let me be real to you.

And as I feel the smoothness of you silk black hair in my hands, I wonder

if I’ve ever really loved you or if I just loved how in love we could have been. The agony of loving you won't let me die.

i miss you always, daffodil.

#love #heartbreak #sad #regret #death #winter #flower #pity #spring #despair

erin Mar 2017

my soul

i want to take a vacuum to my soul to rid myself of you
you're in my nooks and crannies
hiding from my efforts
no matter how hard i work you'll still be there
constantly driving my compulsive mind to the edge
maybe i don't want to vacuum you all the way gone but i want to rid myself of the pain i feel when you are not here
i can't decide whats worse
the pain when you're gone or the pain i feel when you are here
i'm so needy
i'm so clingy
cut me off so i can heal myself in pity and self loathing
release me from your grip that you didn't even know you had on me
please

#love #pain #hurt #pity #missing #release

Lost Mar 2017

What a Pity

I can't wait until I **** myself so everyone can pretend they care.

******* Monica

#suicide #depression #anger #hate #death #pathetic #pity #suicidal #pitiful

astara Mar 2017

pity girl

No one wants me in their life
They think im just a poor girl who want to balance her life with some money and popularity
But im not
I just need everyone now, in my life, by my side
I deserve that!
But no one thinks like i do
That hurts me a lot, and now im trying to think like they think.

Im just a pity girl
Pity girl who wants everyone in her life
Pity girl that thinks everyone like her
A pity girl who always got fake people showing fake love to her.

That last sentences in this poem got inspired by drake's song called fake love. And i like that song so much.

#sad #lonely #girl #alone #pity