Abandonment Poems - Poems about Abandonment

...I'm drawing the sun on an empty ceiling But I still bring the clouds in my own way You wanted a goddamn college essay But there was nothing else to say She's the tortured soul in all of us ......Read the rest...

... It is the grey of evening...soft lamps glow as our hood readies itself for some crumbs of comfort: Old widows wrap themselves with pillows for third- hand affection, Children yawn sur......Read the rest...

...I know you've heard the story. I think everybody has. About the Downey boy who won second place In everything that was. In that Southern California city, Downey was its name, In every city-wi......Read the rest...

..."I remember the land. I remember its people—their ways, the folly of their mentality. I never encountered the term ‘depression’ until later in life. I grappled with hatred and bigotry because they’re......Read the rest...

...Back Catalogue Poem: "show me your face" growls subside upon revelation does your countenance veil mine? I see beyond sight and temporality still full of sorrow, though drawn in indisputa......Read the rest...

...Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod Any idea regarding who unnamed individual earned such lofty title? I offer a clue, that averred person unknown to many other......Read the rest...

... Intrinsic intuition tunneled through time, drives incessant the central cognitive impulses, surges with the sensuous waves of enlivening enlightenment, through the vacuity of amorphous perc......Read the rest...

...Evils Money-hungry xenophobic cruelty Automated psychopath robots Lustful murderous tendencies White cloaks, expensive sedatives Human values and hopes are dead Trampled and discarded relig......Read the rest...

...9 years had passed without a trace of you in my mind And in the 10th year, like a dormant volcano now live, you met me once again Isn't it funny, how, you left me at my most fragile And ......Read the rest...

...I’m done with co-dependence or so I say I’ve burnt so many effigies for others I’m the giver in my codependency The taker burns all my oxygen She used to grant just a puff to breathe Her flame ......Read the rest...

...It's heartrending to lose a spouse A very special woman who shares the house With your body, your heart and your soul It's very hard to feel losing your whole Your being, everything you have It'......Read the rest...

...That was then when the truth was a lie scorching the bitter tongue of unseen circumstances that crawled on the belly of youthful unrest running toward the darker quarters where Angels left wear......Read the rest...

...In the outskirts, where whispers weave through the wind, there stands a farmhouse, its timbers groaning with secrets, a silhouette etched against the horizon’s fading light. Once, it was alive, ......Read the rest...

..."show me your face" growls subside upon revelation does your countenance veil mine? I see beyond sight and temporality still full of sorrow, though drawn in indisputably realised in your emb......Read the rest...

...I see you flinch, but the universe spins without aid, Beloved, our world dances in circles, yet we anchor in place. You forget the shadow and the years shift, like a play changing its set, Beneath......Read the rest...