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"disrespectfully" poems
I play with fire And I dance with Death A twirl and a spin and a blade swings recklessly. "Do you not care about others ", they ask consecutively. "Do you think before you act", they ask disrespectfully. My own reality an asylum My mind makes liberal My words can change you or me "Your words are absent " , they'll disagree "You make no sense", they'll only see To much to handle like a crushing bridge Bounds break like broken ribs Without either things cease to exist I walked upon a borderline path I can't decipher , am I a Psychopath
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Aug 16, 2015
Aug 16, 2015 at 3:30 AM UTC
Psychopath
I'm perfectly imperfect That's what they always say I'm crookedly straight But I'm far from gay I forever speak my mind Always and all day My heart is on my sleeve But guarded all the same I'm devilishly innocent My mind is not so tame I'm dishonestly truthful But never take the blame I'm completely backwards We can never be the same To me upwards is downwards The sky's my only ground Your life I can still ruin It is with in my bounds I'm depressingly happy There is no middle ground My version of earth is flat... Why should it be round? My earth is a work of art With colours everywhere Your world I broke and ripped apart Just to prove I don't fit there I tore it up in little bits I left the pieces without a care I'm completely backwards I'm such a major scare I'm nationally local You can see me all the time I can disappear into thin air Leaving you without a rhyme For I'm melodically harmonious No brighter than the dullest shine I'm incomprehensibly real And yet so hard to find Pure white to me is simple black Race is gone and can't come back I can prove all that I am A thing to which you surely lack I'm disrespectfully respectful My words are always fact I'm completely backwards I'll drive you past insane Then I'll never bring you back I'm illegally legal Like a drug that you can't sell I'm contrastingly bendable In this world of my own hell I'm resistingly irresistible My secrets you will never tell I'm obscenely lovable In this world in which I fell I landed in this twisted place A world of expectations This world I created on my own For I'm an undertone of exaggeration Here I've found my only home In a backwards world of my creation And all in all I'm here to say "I'm completely backwards In every single way"
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Sep 10, 2009
Sep 10, 2009 at 12:49 PM UTC
I'm Completely Backwards
I'm perfectly imperfect That's what they always say I'm crookedly straight But I'm far from gay I forever speak my mind Always and all day My heart is on my sleeve But guarded all the same I'm devilishly innocent My mind is not so tame I'm dishonestly truthful But never take the blame I'm completely backwards We can never be the same To me upwards is downwards The sky's my only ground Your life I can still ruin It is with in my bounds I'm depressingly happy There is no middle ground My version of earth is flat... Why should it be round? My earth is a work of art With colours everywhere Your world I broke and ripped apart Just to prove I don't fit there I tore it up in little bits I left the pieces without a care I'm completely backwards I'm such a major scare I'm nationally local You can see me all the time I can disappear into thin air Leaving you without a rhyme For I'm melodically harmonious No brighter than the dullest shine I'm incomprehensibly real And yet so hard to find Pure white to me is simple black Race is gone and can't come back I can prove all that I am A thing to which you surely lack I'm disrespectfully respectful My words are always fact I'm completely backwards I'll drive you past insane Then I'll never bring you back I'm illegally legal Like a drug that you can't sell I'm contrastingly bendable In this world of my own hell I'm resistingly irresistible My secrets you will never tell I'm obscenely lovable In this world in which I fell I landed in this twisted place A world of expectations This world I created on my own For I'm an undertone of exaggeration Here I've found my only home In a backwards world of my creation And all in all I'm here to say "I'm completely backwards In every single way"
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They were so not interested when the brother was so very available Lonely even and longing to be needed longing to be loved it Didn’t seem like it cuz he could be so very surly but desperately longing To laugh out loud and secretly longing to dance to no music but that which was in his lover’s heart but they would have had to but didn’t care to dig under the bravado or be lurking behind the door to his otherwise empty sanctuary when he locked out the needy and narcissistic and peeled the ess offa his chest before hanging his all-purpose multi tool belt on the all-purpose multi tool belt nail and became merely his naked self to see that what he truly had to offer could not be built or repaired or paid for or driven or traded for the promise of some ***** which he would have settled for in lieu of real companionship cuz that’s all people seem to be about these days and *** is easy and love is hard and therefore a fella could hardly hope for something that songs are written about  and hope deferred is unpretty at  best  and ****** tragic at worst  so imagine their surprise when one day he walked in with his large workman’s hand wrapped around a smaller softer hand and he was suddenly not so surly maybe joyful even and they wondered how they didn’t notice how **** he is and they asked themselves did he grow two inches cuz he sure seems taller and they don’t understand when he no longer comes just cuz they call and they find that for some reason they hate that ***** that he is with and she ain’t so cute so why is he not noticing how he is now coveted or catching the obvious and disrespectfully thrown  hint… and in their selfishness would see him unhappy before seeing him with her before seeing him not sniffing around them trying and hoping to be noticed and their arrogance dictates to them that he is not unavailable… not truly…  that she is just a passing whim and their ignorance whispers to them that he has forgotten how not so long ago and for years and years they were so not interested …now ain’t that somethin
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May 6, 2013
May 6, 2013 at 10:03 AM UTC
Somethin Like A Love Poem
They were so not interested when the brother was so very available Lonely even and longing to be needed longing to be loved it Didn’t seem like it cuz he could be so very surly but desperately longing To laugh out loud and secretly longing to dance to no music but that which was in his lover’s heart but they would have had to but didn’t care to dig under the bravado or be lurking behind the door to his otherwise empty sanctuary when he locked out the needy and narcissistic and peeled the ess offa his chest before hanging his all-purpose multi tool belt on the all-purpose multi tool belt nail and became merely his naked self to see that what he truly had to offer could not be built or repaired or paid for or driven or traded for the promise of some ***** which he would have settled for in lieu of real companionship cuz that’s all people seem to be about these days and *** is easy and love is hard and therefore a fella could hardly hope for something that songs are written about  and hope deferred is unpretty at  best  and ****** tragic at worst  so imagine their surprise when one day he walked in with his large workman’s hand wrapped around a smaller softer hand and he was suddenly not so surly maybe joyful even and they wondered how they didn’t notice how **** he is and they asked themselves did he grow two inches cuz he sure seems taller and they don’t understand when he no longer comes just cuz they call and they find that for some reason they hate that ***** that he is with and she ain’t so cute so why is he not noticing how he is now coveted or catching the obvious and disrespectfully thrown  hint… and in their selfishness would see him unhappy before seeing him with her before seeing him not sniffing around them trying and hoping to be noticed and their arrogance dictates to them that he is not unavailable… not truly…  that she is just a passing whim and their ignorance whispers to them that he has forgotten how not so long ago and for years and years they were so not interested …now ain’t that somethin
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I grew up in a Muslim country Where the culture is different; Dress codes, cuisines, sceneries, and peaceful people, Different from your local news' bombing news content. I met different people at my old school, all of which are my friends; Of different ethnicities, culture, and religion. Despite our major differences, we treated each other as one; We built a bond that is not made for oblivion. I am lucky to grow up experiencing having a Muslim and a Christian for a friend, I get invited to holidays like Christmas and Ramadan. I get to see and feel the best of both worlds, And respect for each religion is the key to living as one. I wrote this to serve as an eye-opener That the terrorists that you see on the news are not my Muslim brothers; For when terror is claimed in Islam's name, They disrespect the Islamic belief and teachings when they make that claim. We need to live in a world where people thinks critically— A world with no woman with a hijab is stared at disrespectfully; A world where nobody uses Islam as a sign of terror; A world with no discriminations, just peace and tranquility. I hope we also learn cultural sensitivity, For religion differences aren't something to joke about and be tagged with petty comedy. Respect is what we need to have a peaceful community, And if we really want to live in a world free from disquieting thoughts and emotions, Let this all start with you and me.
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Mar 24, 2017
Mar 24, 2017 at 4:01 PM UTC
Best Of Both Worlds
Where is the terror please in a blameless mind Show me the pain and fears in a brimful loving heart Find me the nightmares 'n demons in blessed slumber Wish me the tears in pious gratitudes real and plenty Produce a charge sheet of dark deeds and secrets hidden Bring witnesses of a stained criminal past and stolen items Front me a past lover with tales of **** or ****** misdeeds Show me anybody truly implicating me in any foul deeds Ask my betrothed of ever knowing me drunk and disabled Dig out any associations of me with friends of ill-repute Point a day I conducted myself disgracefully 'n disrespectfully Stand out a neighbour I went begging and borrowing from Twirling taunting is nowt but delusions of ****** fantasists Nothing to do with one devoid of fears and guilt of the neurotics Show us the happy contented one who gives time to mudslinging Even the most basic of intelligence tells us this is an impossibility There are nasties out there kicking a poor policewoman in the head There are repugnant foreign Taxi-drivers prostituting teen girls about There are hate filled Terrorist willing to **** innocents unflinching While our deranged think school playground antics is all they're worth These are the ones that salivate in front of computer screens Unwashed Keyboard cowards parading malfunctioning brains Attention and ambition lacking deficits sad subhumans waiting to be fed How can wasted western fodders impact on my consciousness or even my subconscious Those by their evident actions already show they lack rationality, intelligence or understanding Inadequates whose only recourse is to showcase their inferiority in pained envy and jealousy by trying to bully Insignificant runts who can't better themselves despite opportunities abound Dr Livingstone come see what your children from your Great Empire has become You told our forefathers you came from the very cradle of Civilisation A land of freedom and great knowledge How come now your childrens are pathetic ignorant irrational insecure deluded cowards What to do with morons other than to pitifully toss them a morsel of our talents once a while and laugh as they feed hungrily You gotta laugh!
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Nov 24, 2018
Nov 24, 2018 at 10:36 PM UTC
Here Sheba..Here Rover....!
Where is the terror please in a blameless mind Show me the pain and fears in a brimful loving heart Find me the nightmares 'n demons in blessed slumber Wish me the tears in pious gratitudes real and plenty Produce a charge sheet of dark deeds and secrets hidden Bring witnesses of a stained criminal past and stolen items Front me a past lover with tales of **** or ****** misdeeds Show me anybody truly implicating me in any foul deeds Ask my betrothed of ever knowing me drunk and disabled Dig out any associations of me with friends of ill-repute Point a day I conducted myself disgracefully 'n disrespectfully Stand out a neighbour I went begging and borrowing from Twirling taunting is nowt but delusions of ****** fantasists Nothing to do with one devoid of fears and guilt of the neurotics Show us the happy contented one who gives time to mudslinging Even the most basic of intelligence tells us this is an impossibility There are nasties out there kicking a poor policewoman in the head There are repugnant foreign Taxi-drivers prostituting teen girls about There are hate filled Terrorist willing to **** innocents unflinching While our deranged think school playground antics is all they're worth These are the ones that salivate in front of computer screens Unwashed Keyboard cowards parading malfunctioning brains Attention and ambition lacking deficits sad subhumans waiting to be fed How can wasted western fodders impact on my consciousness or even my subconscious Those by their evident actions already show they lack rationality, intelligence or understanding Inadequates whose only recourse is to showcase their inferiority in pained envy and jealousy by trying to bully Insignificant runts who can't better themselves despite opportunities abound Dr Livingstone come see what your children from your Great Empire has become You told our forefathers you came from the very cradle of Civilisation A land of freedom and great knowledge How come now your childrens are pathetic ignorant irrational insecure deluded cowards What to do with morons other than to pitifully toss them a morsel of our talents once a while and laugh as they feed hungrily You gotta laugh!
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nothing is more inappropriate or unjust of a poem written, than not giving it an appropriate title but rather disrespectfully, leaving it with out one.
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Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 7:56 AM UTC
untitled
What a strong grip that you've managed to keep so long How does it still feel in this moment? Realize now that the grip was too strong It's gone too numb to feel if it still constricts Emboldened by the lies that cross the threshold of those lips You get what I give and I give you what I deserved You reap what I sow, but I know what you think I don't Believe me, you know you've deceived me You seem baffled as I start to roam away from your reach Wondering where went the chain you've anchored What of the lessons you've attempted to teach To keep me guilted, controlled and manipulated So you can seek all you want from the others you've lied to You take what I give but I get what you deserved I've reaped what you sow and you know that I don't Believe you, I know you've deceived me So come clean to me Bare all your guilt Set me free You've already abandoned me Still you don't resist To continue so disrespectfully You keep your secrets disappearing So what is it that you still want from me? So come clean to me (come clean, come clean) Bare all your guilt (what you hide from me) Set me free (your cage no longer fits) You've already abandoned me So why should I stay by you? ©July 2024 Neal Emanuelson
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Jul 2, 2024
Jul 2, 2024 at 6:40 PM UTC
Phantom Pain
I'm sorry for being me I thought we connect idealistically I thought you will act differently , But apparently, You don't see what I see. I'm sorry for letting you be, To not be able see who you are to me To think that I will act cowardly, And to see me as ordinary. All I am looking for is tranquility, Unfortunately, You are trying to achieve spiritually, But let me tell you blatantly, You aren't that different from me. You told me, You need the sense of security, And the sense of certainty, But my darling, You aren't wiling to dive deeply. Tying a knot does not provide security, Nor does it ensure certainty, I failed as a lover, Because you didn't realize, what's reality. If all I am looking for is just to be ***** I won't come up with all the activity, I won't be able to make you cry softly, Or even to share my thoughts to you genuinely. The fact that you felt guilty, To love comfortably, Believe me, That hurts me. So here I am telling you directly, I couldn't be with you in this journey, Cause it's a pain for me to see, You suffer and torture yourself mentally. I will never be who you want me to be, Because we were all designed differently, You said I treated you disrespectfully, Without realizing my insecurity. I'll leave for now so that you see, I am not acting contradictorily, I am just being me. But please, blame it on me.
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Apr 23, 2019
Apr 23, 2019 at 2:11 PM UTC
Blame it on me
class classist charismatic lack stacking cracking in need of discipline who is abusing their power just a few just a few disrespectfully yours lie down with me. i will tell you secrets you are not ready to hear. introduce you to things you are not ready to know. gaze into your eyes. intrude upon your soul. pull out the words you are not ready to say. do you feel constrained?
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 9:55 PM UTC
/constrained\
To everyone born to this world with nothing No social code, allowed to risk it all with no bluffing While others get bored being handed their every desire I spent my childhood days building dirt empires Dreaming of the molds I was not cut out of When I'd sit down with fellow folks talking of my aspirations Most just laughed, brushed me off like I had no chance So I fueled my fire with life's frustrations My life works may never something tangible But if you read every chapter of me, your hands would overflow This world doesn't seem to understand my twisting mind But at least I never looked at my dining room, Thinking it's a great place to hang a clothes line I'm taking jabs at my past but never dwell in that hollow home Past these child eyes how much of me do you really know If you were me, if you had to be, disrespectfully  some say they'd **** themselves Take that negativity and raise myself onto a higher shelf I find my best inspiration in music and staring out at stars one of my favorite pieces I ever wrote was just about passing cars I'm scared that people are being cookie cut all the same In a Stepford  manner more messed up than Gerald's  game They hand you charts and define you in a statistic Like they already threw you the ball but you missed it I'm here to breath life into a deflated man's scene Don't let these demons destroy your darkest dreams Spark a light onto who you want to be In a sea of fish, be the one swimming up stream
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Mar 13, 2017
Mar 13, 2017 at 5:22 PM UTC
Salmon
Will you walk this way Will you leave open the door Will you be more than just the reasons that you implore When you look inside When will you separate the appriations When will you part and devide all the suppositions "I am this today I am that tomorrow I am anything as long as it doesn't cause me sorrow" "I am as fickle as the sun I am sunshine , sometimes storm I am the moon's false reflection that falls upon the praise that you adorn" So who is it that walks through the door So whose mask will you wear today So who will fall for your insidious lies that you so disrespectfully diplay What a way !
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Aug 26, 2016
Aug 26, 2016 at 7:45 AM UTC
What a way
Protest WWW..Global Our Cries World wide.. From the USA even to the Mother lands..Africa.. Cries reaches US. Paris France. Vancouver Canada, Germany Visions and dreams have shown my stove is burning.. I often wondered what it could mean. There's a fire in my kitchen, the center of where I live. Theres a burning. In the heart of the land.. The place that feed my family.. food to survive.. As I look around my land now right in my homeland. There's fires burning.. In the hearts of man. From Injustices in the land. The killing OF another Now George Floyd Openly. Strangely for the world to see. Now cities are burning, grenades are throwing, rubber bullets are shooting.. At us in our pains. They are arresting any and every one of us. Why.. Because we are Bleeding, so they arrest us. because we don't wanna go home. Suffer in silence unseen. Hurt and die in our sorrow.. Obey curfews.. Used as tools to control.. what needs to be seen. Our rights to be heard, our rights to walk it out, shout it out, All day and night with each other. See us we want to protest, stop shooting your rubber bullets, because we don't wanna hide behind closed doors. Between 7 and 11.. We are risking Our Lives for this cause.. Risking Our health for Liberty.. Equality. Marching until our feet are bruised. For the Rights to be free, Our Lives Matter, Our Rights matter, Our Equality Matters. Our Humanity Matters, Stop Killing Us, Trying to Silence us.. STOP And.. Prosecute The guilty for abusing Us. Overthrow The Powers in Authority That rule with cruelty to humanity. Especially to People like me. I want the rights to Express myself Openly, Our tears for the world to see. I want all people to have liberty. In Our Pains why must you treat us so roughly, so disrespectfully. rubber bullets, gas grenades, smokes and flares, We people are already wounded, already feeling down, already fed up, already exhausted, already disrespected already getting killed.. You won't lift us up give us a  caring hand.. Us against those racist against us.. Way Over fed Up. We are Thanking every color in America and world wide.. that Protest On Our side. Thank You. Willing to fight and be heard and demand for changes for our kind, and all of mankind. That's been denied.. Justice for US.
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Jun 6, 2020
Jun 6, 2020 at 10:14 AM UTC
Protest WWW..Global
Protest WWW..Global Our Cries World wide.. From the USA even to the Mother lands..Africa.. Cries reaches US. Paris France. Vancouver Canada, Germany Visions and dreams have shown my stove is burning.. I often wondered what it could mean. There's a fire in my kitchen, the center of where I live. Theres a burning. In the heart of the land.. The place that feed my family.. food to survive.. As I look around my land now right in my homeland. There's fires burning.. In the hearts of man. From Injustices in the land. The killing OF another Now George Floyd Openly. Strangely for the world to see. Now cities are burning, grenades are throwing, rubber bullets are shooting.. At us in our pains. They are arresting any and every one of us. Why.. Because we are Bleeding, so they arrest us. because we don't wanna go home. Suffer in silence unseen. Hurt and die in our sorrow.. Obey curfews.. Used as tools to control.. what needs to be seen. Our rights to be heard, our rights to walk it out, shout it out, All day and night with each other. See us we want to protest, stop shooting your rubber bullets, because we don't wanna hide behind closed doors. Between 7 and 11.. We are risking Our Lives for this cause.. Risking Our health for Liberty.. Equality. Marching until our feet are bruised. For the Rights to be free, Our Lives Matter, Our Rights matter, Our Equality Matters. Our Humanity Matters, Stop Killing Us, Trying to Silence us.. STOP And.. Prosecute The guilty for abusing Us. Overthrow The Powers in Authority That rule with cruelty to humanity. Especially to People like me. I want the rights to Express myself Openly, Our tears for the world to see. I want all people to have liberty. In Our Pains why must you treat us so roughly, so disrespectfully. rubber bullets, gas grenades, smokes and flares, We people are already wounded, already feeling down, already fed up, already exhausted, already disrespected already getting killed.. You won't lift us up give us a  caring hand.. Us against those racist against us.. Way Over fed Up. We are Thanking every color in America and world wide.. that Protest On Our side. Thank You. Willing to fight and be heard and demand for changes for our kind, and all of mankind. That's been denied.. Justice for US.
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The manly cowboy put back his hat, closed the door, and so manly, walked away. Down the path he trod, avoiding all the rolling rod. Upon he came to three little young lasses, crouching over looking silently intent, little sticks in their hands. There lay a little grey mole* dead to the world. Stiff as tree eyes no longer to see. “Good day ladies” said he, the manly cowboy, tipping his hat so very gentlemanly. “what’s  that i see you a pokin’?” ‘Only a dead mouse.” said the three. “Why don’t you move the little guy, over a little there, over a little that way. "slowly with your sticks. gentle as tongs. "cover him sweetly with a blanket of wild flowers. "and leave him lying there so lovingly." i give you this advice be nice to the mice, instead of poking death death in the head so innocently but so disrespectfully.” Then tipping his hat, he was gone.
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 8:21 AM UTC
Tales of the Manly Cowboy - walkin' on a path through modern suburbia
In the mirror through tears, i notice that i am dressed in the scars of every deep wound I played off like a paper cut, and the phone in my pocket weighs a thousand pounds from your text messages. I want to skip the ******* thing in a river. Oil and water but just as much as I know we won’t ever mix, you convince me it’s all part of the recipe. I have shrank down, cut pieces of myself like a cake and served everyone at every table a slice every time. Stuffed my baggage in the closet and let you move yours in instead. Cried like an anxious dog who’s owner wasn’t around. And we called this pain love, for 20 years. I slipped into the role, thanks to my parents. Mentally ill and emotionally unaware, It’s so easy to choose what’s easy and so hard to notice your love has gone rotten. I changed my perspective and every smooth word started to sting. I was kind as you were building up pieces of me to fuel your own fire. I understood until I couldn’t anymore, but you never would. Change your perspective with me, climb the mountain and realize the hike’s easier on the way down, i would’ve carried you all the way up if you asked me. But we sat for 20 years and heard everybody on the way back down talk about the view. I chose to sit with you instead. And when I finally took that first step up, I should’ve known it meant leaving you behind me. I am my own destiny. I am the bullet in the chamber and the consequences of the trigger pull. I am my own mind, I tended the garden of fear and worry and constant replay of mistakes and regret. I am more than who I think I should be for anyone else. 
good luck with all the **** you’ve got going on. disrespectfully yours, your ex “best friend”
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Dec 18, 2024
Dec 18, 2024 at 10:50 PM UTC
Disrespectfully yours.
In the mirror through tears, i notice that i am dressed in the scars of every deep wound I played off like a paper cut, and the phone in my pocket weighs a thousand pounds from your text messages. I want to skip the ******* thing in a river. Oil and water but just as much as I know we won’t ever mix, you convince me it’s all part of the recipe. I have shrank down, cut pieces of myself like a cake and served everyone at every table a slice every time. Stuffed my baggage in the closet and let you move yours in instead. Cried like an anxious dog who’s owner wasn’t around. And we called this pain love, for 20 years. I slipped into the role, thanks to my parents. Mentally ill and emotionally unaware, It’s so easy to choose what’s easy and so hard to notice your love has gone rotten. I changed my perspective and every smooth word started to sting. I was kind as you were building up pieces of me to fuel your own fire. I understood until I couldn’t anymore, but you never would. Change your perspective with me, climb the mountain and realize the hike’s easier on the way down, i would’ve carried you all the way up if you asked me. But we sat for 20 years and heard everybody on the way back down talk about the view. I chose to sit with you instead. And when I finally took that first step up, I should’ve known it meant leaving you behind me. I am my own destiny. I am the bullet in the chamber and the consequences of the trigger pull. I am my own mind, I tended the garden of fear and worry and constant replay of mistakes and regret. I am more than who I think I should be for anyone else. 
good luck with all the **** you’ve got going on. disrespectfully yours, your ex “best friend”
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Sitting cross-legged at your site, dreadfully admiring the grass clumps growing disrespectfully over your plot, as if time forgot to stop for you. Your neighbors are encroaching closer, becoming a sea of graves, You’re blending in with the rest. Crickets and birds keep chirping while the excavator cuts through my thoughts digging new plots. Time and life just keep progressing But without you, I’ve stopped.
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Oct 26, 2024
Oct 26, 2024 at 5:32 AM UTC
The World Should Stop For You
Why do we allow our women to be disrespectfully depicted Falsely in forms of harmful fiction. Make them hate themselves with malicious media, I think your beautiful forget what their feeding ya. It doesn’t matter what I think, you need to believe it too. What I gotta do for you to believe in you? Why do we let our women get destroyed for the sake of “art” Do the men hate the women because of one that broke their heart? Where does the root of the problem start? How can we fix it? We can’t do it by fixing our diction. Solely. I mean that can’t be the only thing we do. Change our actions and we may find the treatment. Indeed this is something I believe in.
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 12:20 AM UTC
Image
Sitting at the table drinking coffee My small legs dangling off the chair I coil my fingers through my hair Watching the words of envy stare My mother, screaming and stomping on the floor above me, arguing Asking my Auntie “What was going on? Why was everyone yelling?” “Grown folks business,” was always her reply, her red ruddy eyes blinking with knowledge and pain It was never a phrase I ever got, Never one I could understand or stand to see It always angered me I was treated disrespectfully, without even knowing Age, it was a number that mattered with how wise one was to be It was a number that didn’t ever matter to me But, it mattered to everyone around me And the jinx of it now is, I’m sitting here, staring at the smooth polished wood that contains the skin you used to exist in Thinking of the things you, and everyone else, tried to hide from me And sometimes, I think of any adult that says that to a child as liars, trying to delay the inevitable manner of things Delays makes things harder and distrusting, Auntie Wouldn’t ice make the truth slippery?
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Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015 at 9:26 PM UTC
Hidden lies in coffee
So you think you know the reason why it is that we're all here? You think you've got it sussed and that it's crystal clear? But what you fail to realize is that you don't know who to trust. The people who have taught us are also made of dust. You're strong in your convictions; you never doubt the facts. You read the science books but don't inspect the cracks. You back your suppositions; hold strong to your beliefs. But have you ever smoked a joint and doubted all your briefs? Life is not at all what it at first appears to be. All you need to show that is some archaeology. Gaze up at the stars at night, or the moon during the day; check out Machu Picchu and reflect on what you say. We'd be pretty ****** foolish; and equally naive; to place all our bets on the lies that people weave. I don't mean that in a mean way, or disrespectfully; it's meant to show my love and camaraderie. And hey, I know, that sounds real cocky, 'cause I've no monopoly on truth. But I've got something tangible that's both evidence and proof. If you want to hang a while I'm happy to expound; I'll blow your mind and steal your heart and shake your faithless ground. © Canadian Cowboy _________________________________
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Oct 5, 2019
Oct 5, 2019 at 11:59 AM UTC
LIFE
Your smile is unfairly noticeable. Your voice is disrespectfully low. Your eyes are rudely easy to get lost in. And yet, I don't. Do I?
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Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018 at 10:21 AM UTC
Do I?
I try to get in her head Tell her she's ok There were so many doubts... Hair, waiste, skin, feet, eye, voice All of it. None of it. Her mother was no where She was there, but not Where she was needed. She needed someone herself, So it's easy to forgive... Forgetting is too, when you're genuine. Boys made her feel better. Special, loved, noticed. Man, I'm sad for her now. Knowing what I know now, Poor child. The break down of the tribe. No women to guide this young Woman. Alone, most days. Quite Naturally, unless anxiety set in. Or I just really like you. So I struggle to write about Me. Seems she couldn't be If those days weren't seen. I embrace what I've witnessed. There's a message back there I missed it . I trust her. She's guiding me With intention. So let's see... Wicked dreams. Thoughts of screaming. Being killed in my sleep. Throat ripped Open. Bleed in my dreams. Being chased, watched, schemed. Perhaps there's something here Fear How firm is it's grasp Fear to be me... I was scared to go home most days. Hated summer vacation after a few weeks. Longed for Mondays. To be back in a place I felt safe. School. How insane. But true. I'd look round the corner, Hoping the lot was empty of red, Maybe even he was dead. He never died. He lied. They did. So disrespectfully. And to a kid? Could have just kept some things Private... Anyways, It's the way it was. I remember the Simpsons More than feeling love. Mom always seemed distant. As I am now. Best advice ! Go out and get it out! Come back clean and focused And ready to heal The next. They are here now watching, Preparing poems of the future. Alright let's get it all out...
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Mar 27, 2015
Mar 27, 2015 at 3:37 AM UTC
Journal entry 2
I try to get in her head Tell her she's ok There were so many doubts... Hair, waiste, skin, feet, eye, voice All of it. None of it. Her mother was no where She was there, but not Where she was needed. She needed someone herself, So it's easy to forgive... Forgetting is too, when you're genuine. Boys made her feel better. Special, loved, noticed. Man, I'm sad for her now. Knowing what I know now, Poor child. The break down of the tribe. No women to guide this young Woman. Alone, most days. Quite Naturally, unless anxiety set in. Or I just really like you. So I struggle to write about Me. Seems she couldn't be If those days weren't seen. I embrace what I've witnessed. There's a message back there I missed it . I trust her. She's guiding me With intention. So let's see... Wicked dreams. Thoughts of screaming. Being killed in my sleep. Throat ripped Open. Bleed in my dreams. Being chased, watched, schemed. Perhaps there's something here Fear How firm is it's grasp Fear to be me... I was scared to go home most days. Hated summer vacation after a few weeks. Longed for Mondays. To be back in a place I felt safe. School. How insane. But true. I'd look round the corner, Hoping the lot was empty of red, Maybe even he was dead. He never died. He lied. They did. So disrespectfully. And to a kid? Could have just kept some things Private... Anyways, It's the way it was. I remember the Simpsons More than feeling love. Mom always seemed distant. As I am now. Best advice ! Go out and get it out! Come back clean and focused And ready to heal The next. They are here now watching, Preparing poems of the future. Alright let's get it all out...
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time ticks by time ticks by time ticks and tacks until... i don't recognize myself anymore. twenty two, and so blue- reminiscing upon my youth wishing time would tick and tack and turn backwards. a year and a half spent tangled in bed sheets a plethora of friendships flushed down the drain it becomes so clear that, disrespectfully, life will go on, with or without you, ticking, tacking, twisting, twirling, waxing, waning, tick tick ticking away.
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Jul 22, 2021
Jul 22, 2021 at 8:58 AM UTC
i don't know what to do
F***k, I’m sorry…so sorry I should’ve known the risks of being your friend. You give, You take. What’s yours is yours And what’s mine is yours. Thank you for letting me know why I’m your friend, Why I even talk to you. I don’t regret any decisions I’ve made because that’s what being a teenager who ages too fast does to you. EVERYTHING AFFECTS YOU like the world would crumble if a feather touched you. You seek joy and blame and hurt and love and s*x like They’re all shoved into one neatly wrapped present with a bow tie on it, including a note from me and many others saying: “Enjoy life, love, destroy it while it lasts” I can’t say anything around without that upper lip of yours where you’re more hurt than any of us. I forgive you, so terribly much. But it would all mean nothing if you couldn't forgive me for being so disrespectfully drunk.
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Oct 1, 2022
Oct 1, 2022 at 2:50 PM UTC
Disrespectfully drunk