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#sabotage
knives plunge into me but they don’t pierce flesh my soul escaped from the wounds in a desperate attempt i grasp the saboteurs cold grip only to find it connected to my shoulder
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Dec 3, 2025
Dec 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM UTC
sabotage 🖤
(TW: mentions of blood and knives but no sh) Killer of peace can’t touch me but it poisons EVERYTHING around me The knife that stabs my loved ones is held by me. the one that crys and attempts to console. but a freezer can’t warm a heart The knife that stabs my only escape is held by me. Help! Please help! My only lifeline has been ripped from my veins if no one is to read the words that contain my terror then where will it go? however I stand. Useless. drenched in the blood of those surrounding and my own because the knife that stabs is blinded by the horrors it has seen and caused.
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Nov 8, 2025
Nov 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM UTC
THE KNIFE THAT STABS
The waves of crimson tides crash upon a porcelain shoreline This isn’t the first time This isn’t the first time I cast my penance upwards And it shatters at your feet As the gavel strikes again and again Mercy turns a blind eye…why? The blood on my hands The knife in my heart Is the hidden blade behind my back Still Dripping with the blood of my self destruction A blood splattered oblation of all my fragile promises A final sunset Casts a shadow over the headstones of everything I’ve loved Seeking escape from something I can’t even remember Cyclical ritual surrender This isn’t the first time crimson waves crash again Again and again On fractured porcelain shores Filled with all the broken pieces Of the person I once was And to no avail; perpetually, I fail To put them back together Never, forever Again and again For the last time
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Jun 17, 2025
Jun 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM UTC
Again and Again, for the Last Time
totality crushes red and blue flames char and boil in bursting streams all throughout, circulating and articulating me— a billion units of decaying anatomy that buckle and fragment at every scene I sabotage and blunder him, pierce so violent him, scream so quiet all while drowning in hands that touch with love whenever I inquire, and feed me handsomely ruining my moment of drought
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Jul 24, 2025
Jul 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM UTC
Sabotage
You wanted me quiet- A flicker in the dark, Something trilling You wanted a spark I was your secret, Easier to keep alone Because secrets rots, When kept for too long You wanted my all, my devotion You paced around it, like a dare Like a truth, not to be shared You don't think I feel, But it's all I felt Yet I stayed silent, I am my own personal hell I self sabotage Knowing you wouldn't care I didn't not want you, You just wanted- What can never be fully touched Never to be fixed, And never undone.
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Jul 5, 2025
Jul 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM UTC
A spark
how long can I keep up the facade? hold my head above water, paste a smile on not feel the buzzing underneath my skin Ten years later, there it is again can you believe it? back like it never left Whether to protect or sabotage, to be determined A month in, and there she is a bitter reflection, grenade in hand ready to pull the pin just when you think you're safe
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Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM UTC
faking it
Chin up Chuck; the girl broke your heart you say “I don’t give a **** but she tore you apart. You think you’ll figure it out, and that she just might stay but after the words you shout, she knows she has to go away. Something’s you can’t get loose something’s just get stuck. You’ll wonder if it was love or abuse but chin up, Chuck. Chin up Chuck, you’ve been left in the dark lost all of your luck but hope for a spark. You think you’ll find a route, get out of it all alive, drag and pull boot by boot, praying you might survive. Something’s you can’t just find something’s just get stuck. Are you in the dark or are you blind? Still chin up, Chuck. Chin up Chuck; the world gives you quarrel you’ve drowned in the muck and let go of each moral. You think you’ll be missed, maybe seen as a martyr, in truth you’d be ****** because you’re only seen as a **** starter. Something’s won’t go right something’s just get stuck, but you don’t ever give up the fight because you’re Chin up Chuck.
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Feb 7, 2025
Feb 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM UTC
Chin Up Chuck
The fields of gold— Looking grave as past faces caught up quickly, smothering any presence with smoldering reminders. Alas, the echelons of memories stood tall, like soldiers steadfast, unwavering to the imminent fall. They remind him of his reflection, belabored by reality’s labor. Lines buried in sand, etched onto his head— burning coals of souls that throttle his legs into motion. He runs, and runs, coerced to send the sun his kinetic aspirations, to deflect and reflect, to dissolve prophecies beleaguered. For it is he who devises the Devil of his own doing.
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Oct 31, 2024
Oct 31, 2024 at 12:40 AM UTC
Visage of Many
Half of me has given up and the other half hasn’t even started yet it’s always been like this myself vs. myself the battle of two stubborn selves they take turn in winning fights I’m so confused and tired to root for both each time It’s a twisted game. I play myself.
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Sep 1, 2024
Sep 1, 2024 at 5:45 AM UTC
the battle of two stubborn selves
I'm a demolitions expert of renown Star of the show, the talk of the town A destroyer of worlds they say Or at the very least a destroyer of one Voices rang inside my head When things were good in my life The urge to sabotage, the want to destroy The desire to go off-course, the desire to stop It has been there for as long as I can remember Guiding me to the dark path More often winning than being ignored It was something I blamed for the way things are But that was just me, my subconscious, my insecurity Molding my decisions to be as suboptimal as possible I need to accept, and got to learn accountability Face the consequences, and fix the broken crucible I want to destroy no more, for destruction is already here Already suffering for the mess I have made What I thought I deserved, I definitely do not Now I have to make do with what little I have left Let it stand as a lesson, let it stay as a warning Beware when you light the fuse and watch the sparks They may shine beautifully, but they are searing to the eyes And if you do continue, give the big boom my regards
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Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2024 at 5:07 PM UTC
Demolitions Expert
Like an experiment What makes you this way? Ask 'why' one more time but make it twelve Repeat reaction You'd move the box if you tripped over it as much as you do yourself, silly goose Why do you need it? You're not a vampire Nor a Ferris wheel Get it together
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May 28, 2024
May 28, 2024 at 12:14 AM UTC
Poke and ****
the best way to sabotage success having unrealistic expectations
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Oct 13, 2023
Oct 13, 2023 at 9:31 PM UTC
haiku 23/10/11a
keep the photographs the city is overexposed again take more walks in the nearby woods the world we knew as children watch out for frogs and detonators mind the wires new aerial boundaries at dawn no one steps inside by choice adapt to the proper order and no sleeping under tables the reflection tower is a good place to start tourist trap, a certain approximate bring the thing under the couch in case of an unexpected visitor more nightmares cut out of the newspaper what is an Astra 600? three different hat sizes Hannie says yes to ménage à trois the joy in discovery the joy in forgetting like God without a compass not a lot, just forever
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Jan 2, 2023
Jan 2, 2023 at 11:32 AM UTC
Excerpts from Various Notes Strewn About the Bedroom of Freddie and Truus Oversteegen, October 1, 1941
An unconscious self sabotage The reprimanding echo A bed of invisible nails Without the smallest clue What was this discomfort of? Exhaustion, a cage without doors. Menial tasks turned impossible Stumbling around all dazed Dressed to the ninth in neglect I keep forgetting to live.
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Dec 17, 2022
Dec 17, 2022 at 5:43 AM UTC
Depression ,
the most painless way to leave is non-arrival. self sabotage as absentia. the only loss lacking malice. i did not want you to get close because i did not want you to get too close. i did not want you to take up space for me as i did not want you to want the same from me. im not sorry i didn’t want you im sorry you did want me self-sabotage as non-arrival. self-sabotage as a convincing half-truth. self-sabotage as a refuge. self-sabotage as the lesson.
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Sep 9, 2022
Sep 9, 2022 at 5:22 AM UTC
an ode to the last five months of dating casually.
It's okay to lie down underneath your blank ceiling Until twelve, one, two and counting... Cutting your skin to pieces, Eating your unfavorite chocolate Reese's, Until your body fall into sleeping, Mixing old dreams about running away From a cult or an unknown creature From someone you know or a foreign soldier. It's okay to make mistakes as you run It's okay, as they say, "You're only human. " How you talk and swear too much through our thread How you ignored and made every part of them bleed How you call your every episode special How your own mess and theirs wrestle Until you open your eyes to see the same ceiling, Still blank but with a hint of late morning blaze. Time to repeat the same heat without healing I apologize to you, one from the doorcrack who gazed.
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Jun 1, 2022
Jun 1, 2022 at 2:24 PM UTC
Empire of Dirt
In the red dusk of the desert with folded umbrella, I am waiting in the ruins for you. Touch me with your eyes for my arms aren't enough to hold you, Breathe life into the shadows of my eyes. This flutter of my heartbeat is the sign of the approaching storm, Tearing apart my hopes has always been my favorite tune. Maybe this traitorous moon was at fault, cause the fireflies aren't enough to lighten up my world.
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May 12, 2022
May 12, 2022 at 1:52 PM UTC
Sabotage
i can't ignore, the way it makes me feel the cut of a thousand stars soaring, fragmenting falling into tiny pieces i left you wanting more but all that remains is a casket of ruins for a forgotten love when everything is easy i'll stand in my own way like a villain in my own story the harshness of me burning against the softness of you this fleeting feeling is so temporary alone at last but it is not where i want to be.
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Jan 18, 2022
Jan 18, 2022 at 10:56 AM UTC
self-sabotage
I'm so glad you never knew me then, When I wrote out my pain With more than my pen. Bravado and brandy, Always going dancing. It was fun until it wasn't. I was fun until I wasn't. I was young until I wasn't. I'm trying to de-age, Find some youth, Grasp some juvenile joviality, Iron out the wrinkles despair and desperation Have etched into my face. I wonder if I met you then, Would we have ended in the same place? I was sprinting in a marathon of my own design. I know you could have kept pace But would we have had the time? You say you would have died And that means I'm meant for you. But are you sure that loving me, Even in the Now, Isn't killing you too?
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Jan 8, 2022
Jan 8, 2022 at 4:19 PM UTC
I Thought I Could Only Lay Next To People I Hated So I Never Thought I'd Stay
Glass dome full Of sticks, stones grown in a broken home. Windows; mirrors cracked
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Nov 10, 2022
Nov 10, 2022 at 10:21 AM UTC
Haiku/ broken mind building a broken home
Glass dome full Of sticks, stones grown in a broken home. Windows; mirrors cracked
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Oct 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021 at 8:43 AM UTC
Haiku
sometimes she does not recognise herself she is not the same person from five years ago back then, things like innocence were real infedility was something other women practiced frequenty other women disloyal women not her though she feels tainted, stained irrevocably ashamed marked with a poisionous cheater's kiss she wants to go back to wedded bliss she is desperately looking for some way to fix it to find some sort of reprieve she stares into the ***** mirror hearing the whisper of her old friend, Fear telling her of the art of sabotage an art she wishes she'd never mastered what can I say? vows were made to be obeyed when she broke those sacred promises her soul shattered just the same so when she looks into that mirror her reflection is a stranger she wants to be anyone else not this unfaithful mess of a shell so she smashes that glass into tiny shards it's time to move on time to make a new start
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Jul 5, 2021
Jul 5, 2021 at 1:01 AM UTC
the art of sabotage (new start)