#vulnerable poems on Hello Poetry

Makenna Sep 2024

Salt filled orbs, refusing to fall.
Locked behind a dam, they silently call.
For release, for freedom, for sweet escape.
But they are held captive, in an unbreakable shape.

A hurting heart, a broken Soul
Feelings too deep, to ever be told.
Eyes that deceive, a smile that hides.
The pain that is within, forever resides.

The tears that don't fall, leave an endless ache.
A burning sensation, that no one can shake.
They swim in our eyes, but refuse to spill.
As we hold them back, against our will.

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#sad #feelings #grief #emotional #tears #crying #depression #tryingmybest #vulnerable #burden

Dashalynn Sep 2024

A Young Heart with a Cross to Bare

Here I stand, naked before you, brave and unyielding,
All the tender parts of me exposed.
Like a tree, your roots dig deep, anchoring me to you.
I lay myself at your mercy—body, mind, and spirit.
Wrapped in your arms, I quietly implore,
Please, handle me with care

#romance #vulnerable #brave #fragile

Jeremy Betts Apr 2024

~•§•~ Travesty of Trust ~•§•~

I can't believe how willing you are to hurt me
Far more than any enemy in recent memory
It makes sense I guess, I've told you exactly where to attack me
Like where exactly the armor doesn't protect the body
The parts fragile and vulnerable from prior injury
Every single insecurity
Told you, embarrassingly, what I did and still do find scary
Introduced to you the shattered and fractured pieces of me that I keep tucked away for their own safety
Trusted you with parts of me that are barley held together from the last tragedy
Showed you then warned you of the socially unacceptable parts of my personality
Recalled to you the story of my journey from being bullied to becoming the bully
And how I didn't end up liking either of those me's particularly
I watched you with my son and observed how quickly he accepted you and saw you as family
Didn't hesitate to call you Mommy, it came to him then through him naturally
And I cherish that memory because I haven't been allotted many tears that fall happy
I could go on forever with the good, the bad and the ugly
But basically
I handed you a map of how to destroy me completely if need be
Then literally used the last trace of trust I had left on you not using it against me
And well,
It's with a heavy heart I present to you where that's gotten me

©2024

#hurt #enemy #memory #wilful #armor #fragile #vulnerable #injury #insecurity #safety

Heidi Franke Mar 2024

Pulp

I felt it
When I spoke
To the judge,
For my son,
Years of shell work
Encasing fear and sanity, cracked with each glance, falling away. Everyone listening.
I was left lost
Like a snail losing it's shell
Mushy and vulnerable
A Pulpy mess.

Was it enough
That I said
Or too much.
So much was left out
The Russian Roulette admission
The thoughts of jumping 15 floors from his hotel
So many letters making up words and paragraphs upon paragraphs
of 15 years.
Throwing out a gun
Into the city trash.

How could I be anything more than a mother
Who let the saving flatten her out of existence. Incoherence and pulp.
Will it be discarded
All that effort
To keep him alive
At my expense.
Is that what mothers do?
I'll never get to return. Life doesn't
Let you.

Speaking to judge on behalf of mentally ill son's crimes.

#crime #pulp #judge #mother #son #vulnerable #mentally #ill #gun

neth jones Mar 2024

——— m e r c u r y ———————

I feel so much              it’s just like good movies
hard hurt  romance and rescue
         rage  and ostracization
it's them  it is witty they     the horn spittled gitty devils!
they've pitted faults in my structure
                                                        to feel through
my dermis            tup-tapped and stabbed at
    quaking ***** little jokes at my impractical existence
i am made spongiform                     vulnerable pupation
frogspawn
      mangy food at mercy  ...

...and my pratty employment...

...but it's okay now
enamel
i'm desensitized to it all
         distant to the proceedings
the quirky murky readings
                   then again   sudden barks get through
jarring feedings
            and i am rushed with expense ...
... for a while

mused chemistry
my worth feels    peopled and oxygenated
my work cradles balanced appeal
creation is warm          with budgings of whim
simple commerce   with the ghosts of physical laws
                                     and a birling alchemy

#mood #swings #depression #elation #changes #occupation #emotion #vulnerable #cycles

yıldız Feb 2024

like a moth

[...] like a moth that would do anything to reach its light, here you try to break the distance between you and me. Like a moth blinded by the beauty of the light, unaware of the harm the light could do to it, here you fight for our love.

you Love i

#moth #pain #hurt #vulnerable #love #fighting #lovers

Mrs Timetable Jan 2024

The Look

I wish you could see
The depth in me
The strength in me
For you...
I think you see the
Weakness in me
Because the weakness
In me
Is for you...

I want you
To know
Both

#friendship #love #people #vulnerable #weakness #strength

tryhard Dec 2023

i have a complicated relationship with hope

one of my biggest fears,
the thing that i dare not touch—
hope

and yet, somehow
my fists are bloodied,
my grip bruising

i did deign to hope
held it between my hands:
the fragility of wanting

do not let them see me
here, vulnerable, soft
on my knees

praying or begging,
i may not know
all i know is this:

i have found hope
and it is cruel to me
but i am not letting go

in prose: i am afraid of hoping for things because what if they don't turn out the way i hoped for? but i want to hope, nonetheless. happy new year!

#hope #pray #want #fear #afraid #complicated #vulnerable