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#toxicfriendship
I hate to invade your space. Why did you then eager me That way? How could you be so mean? I never mean to be to us. You're the reason I hold Grudges against myself.
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Mar 4
Mar 4, 2026 at 2:40 PM UTC
Grudge
I see a flower glistening in the distance. The light reflects off it in a way I can only describe as ethereal. In the haze of the light, I see my future; my hope, my self worth. Like a foolish child, I run towards it. As I take a step, a light drop of water falls onto me. The farther I go, the harder the rain pounds until I can no longer hear my own footsteps. The anger of the storm is overwhelming. It’s all I see. It’s all I hear. As the thunder strikes it binds me to the cold and unforgiving storm. My eyes flit to those around me who have found their way out. A serene field awaited them beyond the dark clouds, a refuge. But this field of nightmares is all I’ve ever known. The thunder screams around me, consumes my will to fight. It tightens a noose around my neck, binds my wrists behind my back. Why must it affect me in ways it does not others? “I have to let it all go” “I have to learn, to breath, to live.” But the pounding rain that stings my eyes is forever a rush that I will crave. One that I will always give in to. One that I will always run back to. One that will never change. Spring brings me false hope. It will never bring me flowers.
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Mar 20, 2025
Mar 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM UTC
Spring Sorrows
When I last addressed you, I considered you a former friend, And after much consideration, And re-evaluation, I’m putting this debate to an end. You were not my friend, You never were, Despite what I said, And what I believed, You never cared for me. I was just an ear, That you used for many years, Oh, you caused me many fears, Deprived me of cheer. Friends don’t do what you did, So I’ll say again, You were not my friend, And you never were.
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Mar 5, 2025
Mar 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM UTC
Shorter Poem #14 "Not My Friend"
You built the foundations of my being with your bear hands, though the pillars of salt filled all of my wounds. You created everything that I am, though you've destroyed me all the same. We are Atlantis, as we are lost Your love showered comforting drops of reassurance until it became a storm, drowning out who I am leaving me to wonder if we were ever real, or a narrative fabricated to dazzle the shining eyes all around us In one breath you watched me rise, and then you killed my light. You bashed my head into the wall, yet you were the one who kissed it better? In what way does that make you a respectable person, someone that I should value? In what way does that mean I must devote my love and my life to you? You think you are so deserving, as you sit and watch all the havoc you have wreaked unfold. You are a dictator of my world Telling me who I must be Who I can see And what I must do The chains weigh me back as u run far ahead of me taunting at me to catch up, when I don’t You fight back. You rip my hair from its holds, you tear my skin until it is painted in crimson, you pierce my heart with your weapon of words, and yet at the end you repair me you apologize for your sins and pray to me as if I were your god You beg me for my forgiveness, and I accept Deep down I know you will never change You will continue biting down on my tongue so that I may not utter the truth You will still harm me the same way you always have But you will deny it. You will turn it on me. You’ll tell me I cut my own hair off for being too reckless You’ll tell me I skinned my own knees from being too foolish You’ll tell me I pierced my own heart by being too trusting Yet it was you I trusted. You sculpted me from the clay you were given as it lay awkwardly in your hands Yet when the kiln got too hot, you smashed it out of fear You created me as a person, and killed me as a friend.
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Dec 22, 2024
Dec 22, 2024 at 12:41 PM UTC
Double Edged Sword
You built the foundations of my being with your bear hands, though the pillars of salt filled all of my wounds. You created everything that I am, though you've destroyed me all the same. We are Atlantis, as we are lost Your love showered comforting drops of reassurance until it became a storm, drowning out who I am leaving me to wonder if we were ever real, or a narrative fabricated to dazzle the shining eyes all around us In one breath you watched me rise, and then you killed my light. You bashed my head into the wall, yet you were the one who kissed it better? In what way does that make you a respectable person, someone that I should value? In what way does that mean I must devote my love and my life to you? You think you are so deserving, as you sit and watch all the havoc you have wreaked unfold. You are a dictator of my world Telling me who I must be Who I can see And what I must do The chains weigh me back as u run far ahead of me taunting at me to catch up, when I don’t You fight back. You rip my hair from its holds, you tear my skin until it is painted in crimson, you pierce my heart with your weapon of words, and yet at the end you repair me you apologize for your sins and pray to me as if I were your god You beg me for my forgiveness, and I accept Deep down I know you will never change You will continue biting down on my tongue so that I may not utter the truth You will still harm me the same way you always have But you will deny it. You will turn it on me. You’ll tell me I cut my own hair off for being too reckless You’ll tell me I skinned my own knees from being too foolish You’ll tell me I pierced my own heart by being too trusting Yet it was you I trusted. You sculpted me from the clay you were given as it lay awkwardly in your hands Yet when the kiln got too hot, you smashed it out of fear You created me as a person, and killed me as a friend.
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Slow dance with me through the apocalypse of space, in which our words are mercurial. toxicity is fed to my lungs by your homemade oxygen, as if my face of candere is truly reaching out it’s hands to find serenity in swirls of mahogany tables. and you are just looking for a lost fluidity of soul. transform yourself into calico; so i can create a lucid dream just. once. more. let’s fuse up like aurora Borealis, expand our cryptic galaxies so all eyes can be on us. radiate with acidic moon rays when the incense rises; already set for retrograde. "Let’s explore satori". you said. "but what if your oxygen is cataclysmic?" i whispered in a hushed tone. being the antagonist was bizarre to me at first. but then i replied, "i guess somewhere is better than nowhere. because i found you when i couldn’t find myself".
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Sep 9, 2018
Sep 9, 2018 at 6:26 AM UTC
i found you when i couldn’t find myself