#shame poems on Hello Poetry

Manx Kronos Pragna Aug 2023

I sit here in silence
No empathy knows my pain
Sit here alone
Reflecting on my shame
And smash
What stares back from the mirror
The glass
Cracks, ****** knuckles and
Fingers

#silence #pain #shame #alone #reflection #empathy #sad #lonely #aching #longing

F Elliott Jul 2023

Ah.. Goombayaya, young little Gaga

(you sweet..  succulent,
                       tender  little ****..)

"I don't know what to keep
and what to throw away, Paul"

"All of it, young love..   none of it..
I mean wait..     what?"

"All's I'm saying  is..
I can finally see myself  in the
reflection, now that the mirror's
wiped clean. Problem is..  I can only
hold on to it for so long before it all
completely goes away again..

    the image of me, I mean"

"Ah. young Lovely..
the insurgent is embedded   far too
deeply  into the City  called,
'All of who it is that you are'
To engage it or try to take it out right now
is  going to create far too much
collateral damage"

"Then what am I to do..
how am I going to be able to hold on?"

"I have an idea, young love..
       Shhh..  listen--"

👀

https://youtu.be/7hiVIixor_Q

"I have a feeling
we're in Kansas anymore, Paul.."

****** right we're not, sweet one :))
❤❤❤

xox

#love #healing #childhoodtrauma #shame #filters #cities #insurgents #eternity

maria Jul 2023

Anxiety and Shame (for me)

That sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach.
The urge to deprive yourself of food because you don't deserve it.
The tightness in your neck and spine, unable to loosen.
That jitteriness in your veins that won't dissipate.
The disassociation between your eyes and brain, as if they're underwater.
The longing for an unnatural, impractical early death out of exhaustion.
That searing headache wrapped around the circumference of your skull.
The simultaneous hollowness and nausea in your throat and below where your ears meet your jaw.

#anxiety #anxious #nervous #symptoms #disappointment #shame

I S A A C Jul 2023

quilt of shame

Upon the announcement of my arrival
my ancestors weaved brillant threads to make a quilt for my bed
with steadfast hands, they weaved themselves a plan
who i was to become, what kind of man
upon the days of my arrival
my ancestors fantastically wrapped me up in the quilt of blue and red
this quilt housed me for many seasons
itched me, pinched me, left me cold at night
bit me, tripped me, straggling my rights
the brillant quilt made to protect became my golden cage instead
their plan created my strife
their plan corseted my life
after years spent suffocating in the threads
i decided to break away from the plan
emerging like a little chick out of an egg
i chose to live my life today
still the foundation laid was unscathed
every trigger sent my heart into disarray
independence fortified, return to the egg
the quilt might be itchy, it might be tight
but it is easier than learning how to fly

#quilt #shame #gay #homophobia #shameful #fly #egg #renaissance

xavier thomas Jun 2023

Oh wow 🫢

That’s crazy
to know your intentions are
waiting on the decision(s)
I make- to hopefully fail,
just so you can say -
“I told you so!”

#petty #shame

F Elliott May 2023

Raggedy Andi

      'You said,
     "Someday I'm gonna break your heart",
      the first time that we met--

     Were you warning me..

     ..or just seeing how close I'd get?'

If you didn't want to exist  in the heart
of a man like me, then you shouldn't have
allowed your scrapper little spirit
    to write the way you do.

And I was so naughty--  so very intentioned
in all of my obscenely-truthful lies..
I told you it was all your  fault
        that you got in so quickly

         --and   it  was.

I got you back, though
I knew it the moment you let on
that you had fallen  deeply  in love..   not with me..
but with the love that had so deeply  fallen
for every-thing about you

And so,  it increased..  but at such a strange distance.
But even then,  the years only perfected

   and strengthened..

   until lately..
                      until lately..

     'We lay down in a lover's sigh
     As a million years of time rolled by
     How can I be hoping that it's not over yet?'

     I wasn't done, young Andi..
     no..   no..   far from it

You see.. there's this shame-thing
I wanted to flood  with light.
I'm getting so close  to finding the words
     that have never been heard
     in this world before

   (And now.. and now.. and now..)

     'I can't hold on to the night
     Things change, ain't nothin' ever stays the same
     You're gone as far as I can see

     If you feel like letting go
     Honey, I don't wanna be the last to know

    ( I wanna hold on tight to the sweet memory
        of you loving  me)'

Let the good times find their own way home
I'd kiss you goodbye but you're already gone
Cryin' now.. just  tryin' now to wash me away

When you look back on the times we've had
Let the good ones wash away the bad
Don't look back on these bitter words
  we spoke today

I can't hold on to the night
Things change, ain't nothin' ever stays the same
You're gone as far as I can see

If you feel like letting go
Honey, I don't wanna be the last to know
I wanna hold on tight to the sweet memory
   of you loving  me

https://youtu.be/YyBLo20LY3c
~H

don't go

don't go

don't go
.

#love #childhoodtrauma #beginnings #endings #shame #healing #eternity

Manx Kronos Pragna May 2023

USDA - PRIME

Has shame dried
Cranberry bogs
On cotton
Have hormones peaked
Or have the eggs spoiled,
Turned rotten
Is there more to a woman
Than her ****** functions
Or will she do as she's told
And remain in her place
On the bottom

#cranberry #eggs #rotten #woman #body #cotton #shame #bottom #functions #peaked