Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Videos
Resources
Syllable Counter
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Quotes
Short Stories
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 3.129.89.50
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
When I preyed to you to save me, you laughed When I prayed to god, I was ignored as well. So I learned that I would always be alone in this world. Every day filled with secrets I could never tell. At ten I could drink your friends under the table. I was barely afraid of what would happen in the dark. I knew you were too drunk to hear me scream And afterwards you refused to acknowledge my marks. So I stopped trying to fight, I didn’t make a noise. Because they would hit me less if I was quiet. Soon I was filled with your same need to escape. Every day I was on a search to find it. If it promised oblivion, that was all I asked. I immediately consumed it and waited for release. But every time it wore off, I’d find myself there again Always exhausted by my daily search for peace. At first I misconstrued it for trying to get away from myself Until one day I realized I was really running from you. The spread of your fourth stage cancer of hatred and malice And your unrelenting cycle of cruelty and abuse. Your perpetual blame laid on me for your own mistakes Finally had succeeded in taking its toll. Years of fending for myself, succumbing to weakness Had blackened my once pure soul. For you I could harbor nothing but contempt, disgust. The same lack of empathy you showed your own child. I saw that you were at fault for my years of torment. I made your rage, hatred, disregard appear mild. I could never give you a strong enough taste. All I wanted was for you to feel my Rapture. You tried to silence me once again, tried to lock me up But I wasn’t weak anymore and I refused to be captured. I left you to your misery, I relished the fact That leaving you with no one to catch you next time you fell Was the most pain I could ever wish to conflict you with Because then you would finally have to face your self.
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required