Best Damaged Poems
Damaged Goods
In summer sun’s sagacious rays
A butterfly with ragged wings
Settled on the sidewalk
In search of food or rest or other things
Slow, strolling steps brought me to her side that day
Her wings were slowly yawning to and fro
I saw the ragged edges marred
A predator had tried to take her life
She got away but bore the scar
Now she flies erratically, and slow
But ah, her colors shimmered so!
Blue purer than the air
In the sun, sparkled like a million atom stars
Yellow so shy it was hardly there
Emerald splashed like strokes by Michelangelo
They froze my gait
And captured my eyes
‘til I was lost in a universe
of delicate size
and majestic fate
I held my breath
My throat grew tight
I fell in love
With the spirits’ fight
To live beyond its brush with death
Feelings tumbled from my breast
If I could only paste a part of my soul
On her wing to repair its ragged loss
I gladly would, to make her whole
Who more than measure, she had blest
But hope and want rarely comply
With harsh reality
Or the step of time.
Nor can beauty cure insanity
Or heart enfold a butterfly
So I stood entranced by her beauty there
And caught the spirit of her bravery
Though torn and damaged goods
She was the loveliest butterfly I shall ever see
Her injury made her only all the more fair
She could not have known how much I cared
We both were bound by destiny
The moment passed as moments do
And then she flew away from me
Fluttering and stumbling through the air
It's clear to me I'm damaged goods,
The world's not always kind,
This fact, (for you are wounded too),
Weighs heavy on my mind.
I know I disappoint myself,
What chance that I won't you.
The truth is most feel lost in woods,
Fear others might be WOLF!
World's full of those who choose to harm,
YOU BLEED, THEY'RE NOT ALONE,
Please understand, but hate their choice,
A sin like this is stone
That they must wear around their neck,
A karmic warning voice,
That sends to others strong alarm,
That evil stay in check!
Though you SHOULD HATE the weakness shown,
FORGIVE the one who's weak,
To guard against it in ourselves,
Err on the side of meek,
With conscious choice first not to harm,
Don't look for lucky elves
Or friend (that you call on the phone).
React! Don't trust in charm!
Extend your hand to one who's down,
Trust God will aid your cause.
No tit for tat (deserved reward)
Find favor in His Laws,
His gift to those who know His Grace:
His servants! So adored,
They never fear their Father's frown
(Though no one sees his face).
Long Tooth
April 24, 2018
There they stood,
naked and heartbroken,
beyond words, beyond expression.
Still, frozen in time,
beyond their prime,
lost in silence, thunderstruck.
To the core.
Obviously, utterly,
bitterly beyond heartbroken.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
You say you'll be there til the end
You say you can forgive where I've been
But how much do you truly understand
A damaged girl needs a strong man
There are things that go on in one's mind
Certain memories one may never leave behind
Certain wounds that may never heal
At times I won't be able to tell you how I feel
Moments may come where I force myself not to run
Do you truly see the price I pay for damages done
I feel your gentle touch and see the love in your eyes
But the baggage I carry and the road I walk
How much do you truly realize
I love you within my soul and beyond my heart
I toss and turn missin' you every moment we spend apart.
I become a giddy little school girl knowin' you'll be home
Fall into your arms knowin that never again to I have to live in this world alone
But you must take the time to understand
Lovin' a damaged girl takes a strong man
"Even The Most Damaged hearts can be mended"
Like him, once a dying man
A death that he had created himself
Man made catastrophe, man made disease
He drunk alcohol everyday, the very cheap kind(kumi kumi)
The one that was only ten shillings
Very affordable for a man like him
He didn't have a job, it was hard to get one
Even with his two degrees, the economy was bad
There was no hope for the young, so they resulted to pastimes and alcohol
The young men like him filled the bars from morning till the following day
That was his breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack
You should have seen his poor body
The vigor had evaporated with the alcohol
Always unkempt, eyes cloudy, foul smell, dreams gone....
Even the wife left, and as she did, she took the kids
So further into the abyss he got
Sleeping on the roads became a norm
Lying and petty fights here and there defined his personality
He, once a young boy full of dreams
He loved to draw and he loved math
But he also had a verbally abusive dad
Who told him he was worthless
His talents and gifts did not matter like those words
That he heard at the end of every school term
So somewhere he planted this believe in his head
Then he met buddies who made him feel loved and accepted
It started as a fun drink, then for him it became his friend
Downward spiral he went....
Until the wife, his highschool sweetheart left
He reached rock bottom
He sought help from the preachers he had once avoided
He tried to amend the pains in his family
He was the therapy he needed
He was the cure to his freedom
You stole my soul
left me hollow inside
Broke my heart open
and left me to cry
You scratched my surface
to find my weakness
Threw it back in my face
so I could feel your sickness
Now I’m damaged goods
that’s how you left me
No one wants what’s broken
I’m damaged goods
and thanks to you
truer words were never spoken
You knocked me down
So you’d be above me
Then fed your ego
with all of my misery
You ripped me to shreds
for the littlest things
You broke my spirit
Left me here cringing
Now I’m damaged goods
that’s how you left me
No one wants what’s broken
I’m damaged goods
and thanks to you
truer words were never spoken
Everyone makes it appear so easy,
being able to connect with somebody.
It's as if no one ever told them how hard it is,
but then again I am damaged goods.
~DAMAGED~
TAUNTING OF YOUR SADIST WHISPERS, ECHO IN MY HEAD
CONSTANTLY REMINDING ME, OF YOUR DESECRATION INFUSED
MY SELF~ESTEEM RENDERED UNTO ME, IN RATIONS FOR OBEDIENCE
NUMBLY, I ENVISIONED A CHANGE...THAT WOULD NEVER COME
WHELPS 'PON MY SOUL, DEEPER THAN THOSE MY SKIN
YOUR MANIACAL BARRAGES, VIRTIGUOUSLY PERVADE MY SLUMBER
FOR WANT OF MY TEARS, YOU...CAUSED MY RETREAT OF LIFE'S LIVING
THOUGH I STILL TRY TO CLEAVE, FOR WANT OF AN ENDING MORE ELATIVE
FOR ALL TREASURE OF TH' EARTH, I WOULD NOT SUFFER YE 'GAIN
I USED TO BELIEVE TH' PAST, WOULD NOT DETERMINE MY TOMORROWS
BUT JADED I'VE BECOME, MY TRUST NOW OPPRESSED IN CONTEMPT
FOR THAT WHICH DIDN'T KILL ME, YOU...MADE ME HUNGER
BELITTLED N' BROKEN, I NOW STAND ALONE...
MY EMPATHY FOR YOUR NEXT PREY, I OFFER AS SACRIFICE FOR YOUR DEMISE
WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF, AMONGST TH' DEMONS OF YOUR IMPIETY...
FOR AS LONG AS I'M ALLOWED, I WILL SMILE INTO YOUR EYES...
...DAMAGED
©~AZAZA~'09
When the world is all good,
Why is it I feel like I can't,
Do anything right.
I look at you,
I see your cold eyes,
Your frozen heart,
Your cast iron blood flowing,
Thru your ice cold veins.
Yes I sense you have no,
Emotions, feelings, or love,
For me anymore.
I wonder in amazement,
What could I have done ?
What went so very wrong ?
Why did you stray from me,
Into the arms of another woman.
I have no answers.
All I have are questions after questions,
In my mind and the proverbial,
The light at the end of the tunnel.
All I can surmise is that,
You really weren't meant for me,
That thought scares me.
I loved you with all my heart and,
You broke it into tiny little pieces,
Where no one else can put me,
Back together again.
I am a broken woman!!
I am damaged and hopeless.
Give me your pain I will put it with mine
I will save it for later in the back of my mind
Give me your tears I will keep them around
To be taken out daily and worn with a frown
Give me your fears I will put them away
What good is your fear when I die every day
Give me your hatred I will use it with care
To direct at myself when I lay my soul bare
But don't give me a kindness I could never return
Because bitterness and hatred is all I have learned
Do not give me your love for it wouldn't be safe
I've a hole in my heart with no love to replace
Do not give me your trust for I wouldn't know how
Mine has always been broken replaced only with doubt
And don't give me your laughter for it would not sit well
With the pain and self loathing that lives where I dwell
Excuse me please can I return this heart,
The one you sold me was torn apart,
I have a receipt folded so neat,
Have you one in stock that doesn't beat,
Sorry love I've changed my mind,
Keep that heart it was never mine.
Rotting away like tooth decay
Crashing down like a building
Dissolving like sugar in water
Just pain and no shielding
Breaking like glass
Chipping like wood
Been falling apart
From the start
Fixing it we should
I am so damaged… Some of it because of me…
And some because of my disease…
Multiple Sclerosis…
Some due to no fault of my own…
Just done to me…
By my X-Husband who tried for 5 years….
To Kill me and my Boys…
Although in dealing with and seeing in my
M.S… I just look at my M.R.I….
And see all the Damaged Brain Cells… And know that there is nothing
I can do …
To fix it…
All I can do is just stay healthy…
And finish my New Medication…
That is all I have to focus on…
And not try to worry for things I cannot change…
I cannot Erase the past…
I cannot Erase what I did…
Or what was done to me…
I can only try to stay ahead of my Life…
I have to make my Life better now…
With everything that I can!
undone
mistreated
hurt and injured
unknown haunted secrets
shadows
so young
just a child
scolded in fear
berated in the dark
maltreat
harmful
wrongdoings
scared and alone
why can’t he be punished?
damage
Written By: Laura Loo
Date Written: April 22, 2016
A face grotesque
Blood dripping down her cheek
Her eye jabbed
A horror that beseeched her this night
As clumps of hair come out of her skull
She can’t run
And she is greatly damaged
Crushed within
Her soul is hurt
Disfigured as her face
Torn apart
Her mouth spits red blood to the ground
Open wounds carry all over her face
The man hates
He proves his worthlessness
She’s beaten by his rage
Russell Sivey