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#grudges
What I've been taught, what I've been told Don't be haughty, don't be bold For the enemy still lingers in your home Don't hold grudges, don't hold foes Lying right under your nose Is the illness of your heart that you oppose We all have sins, we're well aware But I know you're not prepared Knowing one day, secrets all will be exposed.
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7d ago
May 27, 2026 at 11:34 AM UTC
Lecture from your future
my grudges relish the taste of isolation; bitter by the day.
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Feb 6, 2025
Feb 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM UTC
the taste of isolation
I… was a dreamer trapped in a haunting nightmare, a paradox of hope and despair; drying out these tears with pieces of nothing – don’t fare so well crying in public. These eyes are the window, to all unspoken fears, cloaked in silence. I… am a war between two formidable forces of always wanting to embrace the world with love, and also the fear of rejection that longs to keep me so vaguely isolated. Stuck in this place, to stay and acknowledge, all the time buried beneath the grains of time... Yet another dug up watch with these bare hands – I could have buried so many hatchets, only if I never hesitated burying the prior ones time and time again.
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Dec 29, 2024
Dec 29, 2024 at 10:11 AM UTC
Hatchets
Sulfur yellow a watery burn Created in an alchemist's urn. Water feeds fire as both evolve-- The formula of hates resolve. You waver rights to be treated fair Like Sampson selling locks of hair Or selling age to a 95 year old-- Sheep follow only to die in their fold. Fiery seas begin as a rift Water being the only gift. But nothing, nothing is ever free once transmuted into this sea. But logs do drift and beaches claim All that gave this sea its name.
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Sep 19, 2024
Sep 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM UTC
Hate
Poor and worse, the widow's daughter Hold your tongue so it won't be harder Work for your pay every god **** day One day you'll move so far Break the rules, all the things they have done Don't tell her know she exceeds all expectations Pots and pans, blankets, shirts, the whole house Paint it all red to match her hard head If you were from a different place Maybe you could occupy a space only big enough for you If you were from a different time Would you take the chance to rewind Just to take in the view It doesn't feel right to say that you're gone It doesn't feel like the end of the song I keep on waiting for you to prove us all wrong I'll never hold a grudge again
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Jul 17, 2022
Jul 17, 2022 at 3:20 AM UTC
Widow's Daughter (12/14/2019)
Is there something that can lift my bitterness away? Can it free me of my lingering wrath? Or help my throbbing heart to laugh? Or empty my mind of loathsome? Evaporating the wholesome grief I had swallowed in my hippocampus. Yet, God has granted this gift to our hearts. So, Why don't we perceive life as bliss? Oh, Flourishing Forgiveness! How I longed to taste your fragrance! To obscure my grief-stricken heart with your warm radiance. Enter the teary eyes, O Forgiveness, with your gleaming light! Heal the grudges that make our lives tight. Help us flip the decrepit pages. And abandon our grimaces.
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Apr 13, 2021
Apr 13, 2021 at 7:15 AM UTC
Oh, Forgiveness
it keeps me awake at night, I try to escape but it holds me back for all the things said and done, I thought I could so easily run away from it all, but life holds you accountable and I take full responsibility, but it gets tiring maybe I want to be happy just for one day, without having to think about what ghost of my past may show up tomorrow to play for even though the days, they come and go as they please without me in control, what won't I give to trade the dusky nightfall of yesterday for the crack of dawn tomorrow with that in my mind, I try to live and grow and I still cast a shadow, that I may never outgrow yet there is a light, at the end of the tunnel and I aspire to reach there someday, for it may take away all the pain and shine on like a crazy diamond.
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Jan 30, 2021
Jan 30, 2021 at 3:41 PM UTC
The Past
I saw many people who had a place in my heart once and now they're just an unforgiven memory.
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Dec 5, 2020
Dec 5, 2020 at 10:24 AM UTC
Grudges
you’ve been trying too hard to fall in love, but when love comes to you in pieces; you walk away, thinking it isn’t enough. you’ve been trying to find someone mature, but when stability comes into your life; you find it boring in the first place. you’ve been trying to fill your voids, but when warmth tries to touch you; you refuse it because you’re cold. you’ve been trying to find perfection, but no one is perfect and no one will be yet you don’t care about who is there cause’ what’s available to you isn’t worthy.
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Dec 25, 2019
Dec 25, 2019 at 2:38 AM UTC
Never Enough
He has a card up his sleeve A chip on his shoulder And a monkey on his back Other than that Life is a bed of roses
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Dec 26, 2019
Dec 26, 2019 at 7:03 PM UTC
Stress Factor
take my secret and bury it in your chest, you can visit it every now and then, just don’t give it too much attention, it feeds on and is greedy for grudges, it will not hestitate to steal the spot light from your heart.
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Jul 5, 2019
Jul 5, 2019 at 12:39 AM UTC
shhh..ecret
I drew the curtains back It shed light on the shadows that had been following me It answered my questions of fidelity   The light spilled in and it rang like a bell I answered to it’s call, it’s resonance beckoning to draw a line I allowed for the divide to separate us It’s path was immediately opened up A large trench ripping through the earth A huge void in the space where we were once connected You threw hatchets of lies to try and get to me Seeking a dangerous approach to get back on the other side On my side Standing my ground and siding with truth, I left you there It was then you took up painting Trying to render the whole picture - biased and ill interpreted Painting me black red dead That’s no portrait at all
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May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019 at 2:30 AM UTC
the light that ripped open the earth
I don’t crave revenge and grudges, my soul doesn’t feed on anger, it feeds on confrontations as it only craves the truth.
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Feb 21, 2019
Feb 21, 2019 at 11:38 AM UTC
Late night cravings
I reached that high point, happy but never satisfied. "I could have defeated them, I knew I should." Then, there sparked the fury that is stronger than the ones ignited before.
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 11:09 PM UTC
Unsatisfied
Isn't it so easy to hate? Forgive them before it's too late! Lemme tell you something straight! Holding grudges isn't so great!! Take it as an update! It may not change your fate!! How long will you wait? Forgiving someone isn't a bait!
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Mar 1, 2018
Mar 1, 2018 at 3:00 PM UTC
Hate
sometimes I wonder what you look back on when you think of me (if you think of me.) do you remember all my faults? do you remember yours? do you count them like sheep when you try to sleep at night? do you remember every unread text message every mean word every "i'm too busy" every little thing that broke us? do you regret them? do you regret me?
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Jan 30, 2018
Jan 30, 2018 at 11:34 PM UTC
do you miss me. at all.
i am a worthless person, i know, value me? i hope so, i admit i'm not perfect, sometimes i do overreacted. making conclusions, making suspicious reactions, creating nonsense illusions, mistakes in every actions. i am a worthless person, i know, prioritize me? i hope so, i'm not commanding you, but still, i hope you do. you complain about what you read and hear, but what if i disappear? will you even feel? these grudges i don't want to reveal.
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Aug 5, 2017
Aug 5, 2017 at 3:41 PM UTC
I Am A Worthless Person
The time when the sky is greyed to hues of poignant blue And the mist haunts the the ground The cool breeze slitthers around your ears with secrets and stories to tell When warmth is just a distant memory And the sun seems to have escaped the endless loop of its cycle Yet it's not night nor is it day It's not dawn nor dusk It's when you unravelled in the chaos of the dead leaves And payed your debts with blankets of ice But your grudges held their place in your sleepless nights And your restlessness laughed in the face of forgiveness Your stubbornness smirked at the idea of redemption Yet you still wondered why peace escaped you.
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Jul 13, 2017
Jul 13, 2017 at 7:37 PM UTC
Set free
They see your villainy, your wretched, writhing trickery, you let down your guard while the two-headed snake spat viciously. You are unjust, so they say, who dare you trust? They claim its a product of your uncontrolled lust. The heroes' iron will, cause confrontation for thrill. No space given for the anti-hero, its their own allies to ****
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Apr 24, 2017
Apr 24, 2017 at 3:30 PM UTC
Anti-Hero
To be empowered is to be proud To be proud is to be hopeful And to be hopeful you must fear Because to fear is to be human And be human you must withdraw And to withdraw you must have a soul And to have a soul you must be alive And to be alive you must have a heart And to have a heart you must let them go And to let go is to be empowered
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Oct 30, 2016
Oct 30, 2016 at 10:58 PM UTC
Grudges
It takes so much more energy to hold a grudge, forgiveness will heal your heart not theirs...
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Jun 15, 2016
Jun 15, 2016 at 9:33 PM UTC
Holding a Grudge (17w)