"abasing" poems
over 6 feet tall
but
tear me apart
and
you couldn't find backbone
with a magnifying glass
ask me how it makes me feel
and i'll probably tell you
what you
want to
hear
as i float lifless
across the room
shallow smile
from ear
to ear
weighed down by invisible things
crumbled under insignificance
chemically dependent
self-abasing
coalescing in
selflessness
and
self-destruction
Sep 25, 2013
Sep 25, 2013 at 6:43 PM UTC
It was a love
That was magical
It went beyond fantasies
And lustful desires
It was a love
That was unexplainable
It went beyond feeling
And unselfishly giving
It was a love
That wasn’t ordinary
It went beyond hurting
And unequivocally abasing
It was a love
That caused pain and despair
It went beyond heartbreak
And too many tears
It was a love
That was unfathomable
It went beyond distrust
And continuous berating
It was a love
That was controlling
It went beyond danger
And persistent fear
It was a love
That was depressing
It went beyond being unpredictable
And considering surrender
It wasn’t love
It was hostility
It went beyond everything
And led to death
Mariam Shittu
xo
Aug 1, 2017
Aug 1, 2017 at 12:21 PM UTC
hyper bird clarion
vulture **** marks
like skull ******* beaks
abasing the mind;
death defying witnesses
and acerbic maladies
fester the ends of hungry
scorned mouths
Oct 16, 2014
Oct 16, 2014 at 11:36 AM UTC
I want you to stop
abasing my demons
which do nothing, but
wear a supercilious attire
to meet you at
Greenwich of dreams,
where lands produce timbres
and soul tries to linger!
May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 at 5:41 PM UTC
The sun sets, the shadows fall,
A cold breeze, a weathered pall,
A leaf in the wind,
Adrift in the water,
I try not to quake
I try not to falter.
The Leiermann stands three feet in the ice,
Voiceless now, relegated to vice,
Ill-omened, leashed from behind,
We are the warp and weft of time
We are the darkness,
We are the light.
The Caller shall come,
From the Heavens and from the sea,
Abasing, exalting,
Scattering, emboldening,
They who were foremost, they who were last,
Shall bitterly choke on that which has now come to pass,
There will be no refuge from the Light,
No respite, no night.
Dec 31, 2021
Dec 31, 2021 at 2:49 PM UTC