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FiguringItOut Jul 2021
I thought expressing how I’m feeling would be freeing.
I told them they were a fraud.
All-knowing, but clueless about ‘being’.
A narcissistic deity with no right to call itself God.

An entity so powerful it can create a universe in six days,
But it created a boy who every time he starts something, cannot commit.
A boy so riddled with self-loathing that every day was a haze.

I  told it,
“I’m afraid.”
That night I laid in bed thinking of more ways to describe the blades I felt piercing my heart.  The jaded and absent almighty father who may as well have abandoned me and left me with the maid.

This is why I stopped being religious in the seventh grade.

And this was a desperate plea.
I can’t get to sleep.
The weight of the world is the weight of my sheets.
Try to get up, but everything’s spinning.
I asked God,
“Is this just the beginning?”





“read.”

That’s all that it said.
Ghosted by God like it had a hot girl at a bar’s passive nonchalance.
And it fills me with dread.  Like I was just diagnosed with lung cancer.

But I told God, “What I’m most afraid of is losing hwr.”
I meant to say her,
a textual slur,
but at least that plea will live on,
Despite no answer.
Edgy poem about a girl I wrote a few years ago.
Elizabeth Burns Jan 2018
I don't think cheating men
ever understand
the wrath and turmoil
they've caused
inside a woman's heart.
That a weak apology
via another party doesn't cut it..
That it hurts.
That sometimes
life doesn't go on.
The feelings stay.
The hurt lingers.
And when she thinks back in you
All there is is hurt
No soft fond memories
Just hurt
Pain
Betrayal
And fear
She fears to ever trust again...
She fears to trust the man
Who stands before her
Begging for her heart
Begging to love hwr aching soul
Yet she is afraid
She is afraid
Because of you
You ****
You cheating man
The pain you've caused
And this never ending turmoil in her heart

— The End —