The Bad Love

The bad love. 
Dragging luggage you unpack without permission in spaces that need air. 
Bad love. 
Allowing flowers to grow and then thrusting emotional thorns at one another. Wearing an armour of defence to bed every night, shedding debris of submissive hostility on the sheets. 
Bad love. 
An accumulation of silent swallowed words that have otherwise lured themselves dirty on the curtains. 
Bad love. 
Doing a spring clean every so often and breathing life into this love, whilst keeping those bullets of resentment tightly loaded into our revolvers, just in case.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Ramos  Avatar
October 1, 2019 at 8:49 AM
Nice poem I could relate with her
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February 9, 2018 at 6:16 AM
Very sad.. some just do not know how to love..
Uttamchandani Avatar
February 9, 2018 at 6:53 AM
Thank you!! Indeed love is always celebrated for the good, but there is so much bad too and it shouldn’t be hidden .
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