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#maim
The words weren’t daggers. Weren’t meant to **** They were spindly, like needles. But barbed. So they latch. *I’m not grievously wounded. Yet I’m still bleeding out...* .
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Aug 2, 2019
Aug 2, 2019 at 2:41 PM UTC
Maim
Christ put me in a tomb An abode for the soul Forever cold I fear the slumber And a slender plumber With his wrench and pipe expertise The hold he may have Solid grip And strength It could corrupt Break And maim me I want to hide Runaway Decide But I am trapped Lost in the blaze Of the plumber's gaze
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Jan 25, 2018
Jan 25, 2018 at 5:47 AM UTC
Scornful Disgrace
You’ve heard what I’ve sung, You’ve read what I wrote, But can that get To the heart of all my hopes?   So I run away, I smoke; Getting by With desperate gropes. And I groan,                    and I moan,                                       but **** just cut the ropes! And these chains, that maim, They’re gone, just like smoke, My skin no longer cut up                 Like dandruff Think soap.
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Sep 18, 2017
Sep 18, 2017 at 4:51 AM UTC
Dandruff
Some days she looks at me And bears a smile that shines like light Other days she looks away Forgets I loved her at first sight. I promised her I'd never leave Unless she told me twice And now she's told me three times With that distant look in her eyes. Beauty hurts and beauty maims And memories never fade I look out the window, watch the sky Fill up and pour with rain But I can't leave She's stuck in mind Some days she stays And life passes by And nothing stings worse Than crawling back. She told me that she'd never love Someone as good as me 'Cause good men tore her heart apart In these cold, dark city streets. But pain can't last forever And neither can father time So take a chance or two or more And life won't pass us by. Beauty hurts and beauty maims And memories never fade I look out the window, watch the sky Fill up and pour with rain But I can't leave She's stuck in mind Some days she stays And life passes by And nothing stings worse Than crawling back.
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Jul 4, 2016
Jul 4, 2016 at 3:15 PM UTC
Beauty
...can describe the pain of what so many are going through no words can give back the lives lost all I know to do is hope hope hope each and every day that somehow our world will find a better way than to maim and **** when things are not what we agree upon if we don't find better ways of coping one day soon, our world will just be gone (and then there really will be NO WORDS)...
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Jun 13, 2016
Jun 13, 2016 at 9:53 PM UTC
No words...
How much is a soldier’s tears worth Ten yards for a dead heart A thousand dollar pay day For a lost leg College dreams For nightmares and PTSD screams A lost eyes For capitalistic smoke stacked sky One hundred down For a million in profit A billions to come And all that is cost us Was our humanity The movies make it seem noble While keeping the guts, the gore, And the human horror Down to the minimum But for all the men And women We lose over and again And again and again Till the horrors without Shade the horrors within And even those Friends who make it back With unblemished skin Never really come back again How much do you think it’s worth
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Apr 2, 2015
Apr 2, 2015 at 3:50 PM UTC
How Much Is It Worth
I searched for your name At the end of a bottle But found mutilated skin And shards in a pile.
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Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014 at 11:51 PM UTC
Maimed