Best Ball And Chain Poems
well, there you go, sweetheart;
i have done it at last -
the unthinkable, the reckless, the bold
and possibly suicidal thing...
i have gritted my teeth and hurled myself out into the
void,
into all those endless miles of frigid soul-sucking vacuum
that stretch, echoing, fatal, between us;
i have broken all taboos, all our silent intense oaths -
i broached the subject of marriage.
oh yes, shudder in your shoes and recoil...
it lies before us in the ether,
that doomladen ritual of wedlock, of entwining souls,
that old ball and chain...i dangle it before you now,
like a baited lure, a mace with shining spikes
ready to be driven into your heart -
or mine
and in so doing, i have committed the bravest rashest act;
i have relinquished all my carefully hoarded power,
risked all, life and heart and soul,
for this kamikaze mission, this fairytale yearning...
i have placed my battered self esteem on the table
a crude bargaining chip,
and raised the stakes to their lofty teetering peak
and in so doing, i offer you my throat to cut,
my veins to slice,
my life to choke from me as you see fit
i have made myself both hunter and hunted,
doomed whichever way i turn -
and all for this;
a closely guarded longing, an image of you and i, a dream...
you in pristine white suit, tousled black hair tumbling over
masculine shoulders, standing at the altar;
that sacrificial place -
and there am i, beside you, shining and radiant,
an angel with luminous smile and turgid crimson heart, bursting
with so much fabulous dreamed-up love i can scarcely stand...
it is a beautiful snapshot, composed of mist and moonbeams,
of my own fervent imaginings
a fool's hope, certainly, but also a tenuous possibility...
and for this, i have risked all,
have danced myself a merry jig all the way to the edge of the grave -
and here i hover, white-lipped, wild-eyed,
in limbo between ecstasy and crippling goddamned despair;
with only one word from you to decide which way i tumble -
to decide how i will live...
or, bitterly,
Die.
Hassan harbours hard-worn hardship in his heavy homeless heart
Drones dereliction devastation and dire disintegration of daring dreams
Dear daughter dead at dawn Delisiha demised dismembered decapitated
Harbingers of hell in heaven heaving with helter-skelter and hatred
Skinny skull surreal surrender to salvation and suffering’s solitude
His maimed mind meanders towards Mecca’ mid-morning mist
‘Mohammed my Master mould my misery to magic martyrdom’
‘Save seven sweet sexy sisters in the scope of sound sensual skies’
Balls brethren bequeathed by my baba for blasting those bastards
Ignorant infidels igniting incensed immeasurable invocation indeed
Bearing the bellicose burden and berated by birth belittled and bold
The courageous courier of comatose carnage carefully counts the cost
Captured in the Caliphate contorted in a crowded catacomb he cringes
Waterboarding washes over the waning warrior’s wasted wreckage
Hassan hopes helplessly for humerus and hips to heal in good humour
GI Graysen giggles and generates generous gifts of guts and glorious gore
Considerate Conclusions
Chains have cantankerous consequences
Brave balls from Baghdad bear the baton
Guts and gore guarantee Guantanamo
Victory is vile vindictive and vicious
18th April 2019
Eradicated, exquisite, hypocritical, and divine
Given your own heart --- but not given your own mind
Slaving through this lifetime to just rush to the next
Disqualified, degraded, and generation-hexed
Unintelligent, psycho, and deranged
When you open your eyes --- your life has already changed
The flashes of your past speed by under the midnight sky
Stagnant, secluded, and your life on a constant "standby"
Running from the thoughts that erupt out of your brain
Until before you know it, you're dead and your body lies crumbled in vain
The life you were meant to lead has definitely gotten away from you
Rushing through your life --- set off without a clue
Shocked and sinister your body's in pieces
Your spirit dwindles off --- and your life simply ceases
Born with a name, a face, and a voice
Just someone else's solution --- isn't another's method of choice
Always fighting, always frontin', always running from your life
Tearing and shredding through your DNA --- life's composite knife
We all just co-exist under the heightens of this moon
Raging and bubbling and on the verge of starting a monsoon
The emotions you display, will manifest itself as a storm
After the destruction of the storms --- your life it's about to transform
Gathering a team --- preparing for the worse
Losing everything together --- nobody gets to reimburse
Learning the stuff in school, they want your kids to learn
To silence and quiet all of the bottled-up unconcern
The greed of the people of this country within
Forcing you to remember and relive the first, original sin
I'll tell you what I want, if you tell me what you need
For the negativity inside your veins has done nothing to you but mislead
The mission you surround yourself --- the "so-called" box from within
Like everything from the beginning was fake possessions --- fake heart & fake skin
You're a barbie in a world, transformed by boxes of rocks
Millions of stopped galaxies --- millions of broken clocks
To refer to your wife
As your ball and chain,
Is like saying
That she's holding you back.
And that should drive
Any woman insane,
When she's keeping the train
On its track.
Do you ever wonder if you're alone?
We're simply here in a world of "unknown"
Do you ever walk miles just to hear your steps?
Going on journeys and missions --- but never actually finishing a project?
Always second-guessing --- always second-best
Or think you know it all --- but everyone's unimpressed?
Or try to do your own thing and get caught in someone else's web
Then all of a sudden, you're no longer a celeb
The world takes it's natural turn and everyone has bad days
Wondering how in your life right now --- you'll end up pulling out of this phase?
The funk I've been in is breaking inside of my heart
But I stick it out and bear with it --- until it decides to depart
So many thoughts are scattered inside my brain
Concentrating on the falling warm rain
I take a deep breath and I try to start over once again insane
Until I am forever free from this created ball and chain...
YOU'VE BEEN GONE TOO LONG AND YOU'RE TRYING TO GET BACK.
DID A DOSE OF REALITY SLAP YOU IN THE FACE.OR IS IT A
MID-LIFE CRISIS?
I BALLING AT THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO GET BACK.A COMMITMENT WAS A BALL AND CHAIN IN YOUR BRAIN.
ARE YOU ON A PSYCHO TRIP? ARE YOU FEELING OKAY?WITH ME YOU
WILL NOT GET YOUR WAY.
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS WON'T DO. I'M A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE AND
CLASS. FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS DON'T LAST!.....................
QUALITY IS WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO ME. GO AHEAD AND BE FREE. OH
DID I TELL YOU I'M MARRIED..............................
I'm just sitting by my window, staring out at the rain.
Just sitting at my window, escaping my pain,
but then love got a hold of me, and it felt just like a ball and chain.
That's exactly what it felt like, dragging me down.
Why does every single thing I hold on to have to go wrong.
It isn't fair, not at all what you do.
Why can't I let you go, why do I hang on to you?
Where do you get off causing me so much pain?
Love should never be such a ball and chain.
ball
bouncy, inflated,
chasing, juggling, throwing,
footwork, kick, imprisonment, shackle
dangling, yanking, dragging,
tethered, unbroken
chain
Submitted for...
Dazzling Dizzy Diamante Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger
Date created: 08/07/2022
When you hurt so much inside with pain
You carry around a type of ball and chain
It reminds you of everything in the past
Like reading the Moon’s weather forecast
Nothing bright or special childhood time
No one wants to listen to hurt it’s all mine
I was scared from the inside out as I shout
Can it end I’m to hurt so here’s another clout
Some carry around a book or a lovely bag
For me it’s my ball and chain that I must drag
This want I need to get rid of it and be free
Can anyone understand, please just let me be
I struggle so much with pain of every kind,
I know it’s not me that’s going out my mind
My body is ripped apart including my heart
I am sure that was the intention from the start
My ball and chain grows as a sad reminder
did they not love me surely that's much kinder
Instead they gave me torture to carry inside me
It’s heavy and it hurts why can’t anyone see.
No mirror shows reflection
were it not for light and
dark, that which surrounds
and enfolds us, warms and
chills our inner – the deeper
degrees of being. Numbers,
weights and scales are our own
inventions, for God keeps no such account,
seeing only, who walks in with
us, and how we arrived –
Our internal image charged
by those oscillating fuels of love
and hate; spoken and driven~the
engines moving us forward
and back as a humanity...can stall at
the foot of a mountain, or on a one-way
bridge – gleams that never find
a return channel to steadier stars,
unable to escape the firmament-gravity
of super-glued ego –
Lust for Power, jealousies, need to control
others and all else in our environments,
are some of the Balls And Chains we
sing about, rhyme and push our poetry,
while leaving our souls trailing behind –
True Soul-life, not only sentient feelings, but
the spirit body of God appealing to us, from out
the mist of our wanderings, longing for conscious
reunion –
Hostage to fortune,
prisoner of time
Trophies a burden,
polished and shined
Greed but a jailer,
freedom denied
Hope in confinement
—wishing a crime
(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)
There was a big party for smiling groom
Ceremonial before his wedding at noon
The men celebrate
The smallest handcuff made
Is the wedding ring he will wear will soon
It seems all I know how to do is cry,
It hurts so deep I feel like I'm going to die.
A smile never comes I sit and frown,
I can't get HIGH I can only come down.
It's hard to believe I'm going to be ok no one does,
I just want eternal sleep just because.
You were here and gone so fast,
I really believed what we shared would always last.
In your love I could always believe,
Me without you I cannot conceive.
I would never want to hurt you I would not engage,
I never thought I could look at you and feel the rage.
All I want is for you to take away the pain,
I don't want my heart to wear this ball and chain.
TURBO1904 2021