Best Breaking Free Poems

I feel trapped in a shell and want to get out
It get so frustrating I want to shout
Trying to figure out what put me here in the first place
Before I leave this cramped little space

Not wanting to return to what put me here
Trying to avoid...

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A slave watches a Monarch butterfly breaking out from its cocoon


Date: 26/06/2017...

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You wanted me
Came up and tried to drag me
Down to your firey pits called hell
Not wanting me to dwell on the good
Trying to force to stay with the bad
Stabbed me when I tried to get away the first time
But...
I kept going
The second time you shot...

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Black and white, reality blurring at the seams.
Dependent on a bottle, to silence the screams.
Isolated and alone, unsure where to turn.
Wondering if all along I inevitably would’ve burned.
I tried to keep my head up, but the chains only got stronger.
Faking a smile, not sure for...

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Cracks of abuse chip away at
the now hollow shell of these adults.
The child...held hostage within...
cries out from their tortured souls.
The tears turn to screams.
" Why me? What have I done to
deserve this life of torment?"
Robbed of child's play and innocence...
replaced by waves of fear and...

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20 Titles – Breaking Free 

I've been Roaming the Shores of Love,
Standing By the Water's Edge 
Where Joy and Sorrow Blend.
It hurts to recall Whispered Passions Exploding
when Yesterday's Shadows conceal
What Might have Been…
yet it’s So Hard to Let Go.

Stuck in a Snow Globe with You,
my...

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Adrenaline pumps
As thoughts fill my mind
I'm going to do it
I'm leaving it behind.

I dash for an exit
Hoping to break free
Large ropes from the darkness
Wrap around and pull on me

They don't want me to go
As i fight to get away
I try to get out of the...

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Heavy steel balls chained to both her legs.
Dragging herself each day as though she has a wooden peg.
A rain cloud over her head, she sees only black and white
Belittled every day, she lost her strength to fight. 

Teardrops are stained on her puffy cheeks
Life seems...

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I try to cut the pain away
But the blood is not enough
I pierce the layer that I see
The one underneath’s too tough

I hoped the damage that I did
Would make me feel ok
Though after all the blood had dried
The pain wouldn’t go away

Although it hurt I...

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My feet are walking round on creaky floors
And the cool autumn mist surrounds them
My mind is closed to open doors
And the life that surrounds him

Dark side is where his mind is from
I hear yelling and screaming
Don't look back and run just come
The moonlight shines on...

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breaking free
from the cocoon
unfurling her wings



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on June 27, 2022...

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Folded closed, and left behind, .... perhaps for someone else to find...

Perhaps the gentle rain is kind enough 
to wash away a threadbare heart, a broken dream, from yesterday...
enchanting me to believe within, to entertain the child again

A time to take a step apart, and...

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Some people have 'the look' and exemplify 'the part' for a lifetime.
The curtain has opened; their 'stage of life' unfolds, and the role they
seem destined to play, is set on autopilot with predictable outcomes.

Some others don't turn out the way they started.
Their personalities seem to...

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There is a girl who sits in the corner.
Her heart is crying out.
There are people all around her,
But no one seems to hear her shout.

Her life was once happy,
Full of love and care.
She was always laughing.
There was always someone there,

But now her life seems empty.
What's...

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A Vulcan's volcanic rage erupts from deep within – 
No matter where or when it roars and it spits. 
A shattered mirror reflecting my every flawful flaw – 
Bleeding shards of grotesque glass...
that slice through my skin.

The past sears me like a branding iron, 
Desert...

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