Best Dependent Poems

Opening the door onto your secret,
my heart pounds at the display of old wounds. 
Healing achieved by clinging to nothing—
a future only obliquely glimpsed.

My heart pounds at the display of old wounds
where other’s careless words and barbs had pierced.
A future only obliquely glimpsed
through a whiskey...

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Looking out the window
The skies look gloomy
Feeling empty inside
Screaming out in silence 
Unhappy with this companion 
Felt like I bare you in this world
Your presence feel like labor pains
Leaning on me, I need an epidural shot 
Your complaining bring another contraction 
Your conversation burn a...

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I hang from the strings I tied to you
that I’m too afraid to cut;
too afraid to tug on
when you can’t feel my weight.
I'll cut myself some slack,
only for you to pluck at them once more.
The strings are thinning out;
I'm thinning out. 
Please do not let...

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This world is crazy,
 So many paths,
Not sure which one to go down.
 But no matter how happy you could make me,
So scared I think I should be alone right now.
 So many guys ask me out and I think its just a shame,
My heart...

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The only way to define it is
Co-dependent confinement
The earth off it's axis
The planets out of alignment
all this time spent in silence
of my constant reliance 
I'm in need of some guidance
out of your hypnotic trance
at first glance
the roads all lead to pain
I'm too used to being...

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Mama’s magnet makes her a loving witch
on such a grown ass, so much comfort stitch
childhood, a long loop
warm but a sour soup
sores of age burst for good senses to itch....

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Dependent


How long will you lamely follow
Determined to eat and to swallow?
Should you run away from toil,
Who will fill your pot with oil?

Not as dependents (mouth agape;
Greedy and garrulous as an ape),
But, as a benefactor in this land
Who, to toil, employs his hand-

Whose arm and back...

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Picture a man and a woman naked side by side, 
chains wrapped loosely around their necks 
attached not to each other, but to the familiar horned beast that towers over them. 
To others it appears obvious they could easily abdicate, however the couple does not...

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I had a niece named Karen who
at twenty has mapped out a plan
for a 'strong, independent life',
she’d be 'dependent on no man.'

And, oh, she took such pride in that,
her college had made her this way,
but badmouthing men for the past
seems quite dumb, so I had...

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There's a stuffed animal
that sits in the kid's
corner of the coffee shop
closest to my house.
It seems like a dog,
but it's wrapped head
to tail in what appear
to be bandages. 
A mummified canine. 
I used to think
this oddity was a bizarre
choice for a kid's toy, 
but I...

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"Independence.”

In dependence,

You rely on another’s

Hand to help you up

Instead of just

Using your own feet.



-t.j.t....

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Emotions, carried by the wind,
Get through the mind,
Accumulate in heart - make me dependent....

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When I came to the end of me
and stopped trying to fix it by myself mentality
in desperation I would cry out to my Father
hoping that He would answer when He saw me now on my knees.

For if I chose to humble myself 
under the mighty...

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Everywhere she goes the grass is greener
And all the time I doze in my misdemeanor 
Her eyes can make the sun come out
And I have fun just wandering about
When the sky is dark and the ground all mucky
She lays on the ground as if she's...

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all this while
I had been knocking at your door
waiting for you to traverse the space
from your locked room to the door front 
take the keys from the door side table 
and let me in

and all this while
in being the knocker
I forgot to lock my home
the...

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