Best Guilt Poems

It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge of the platform, when I had a heart attack
I clutched my chest in shock and fell forward onto the track.

I'd...

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I drove home from a party one winters night
I'd had quite a few drinks but I felt alright
It was pouring rain as I approached our town
My girlfriend said to me, "John will you slow down" .

I turned up the volume of my favorite song
And pressed...

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LOVE ANGER DEATH AND GUILT 

Blog was A young girl who was 
Still at school
Everyone loved Blog, she
Was nobody’s fool,
In fact her peers regarded as really cool.
She was determined to learn,
Her mom an alcoholic and her dad
Hooked on drugs,
She was determined to take a stern
Turn...

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Hold back the tears of sorrow

                   Imprisoned in this torment bounded by guilt

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This heavy guilt weighing on me,
Like too many leaves on a little tree
Covered in rain from a sky that poured
I hurt a person who I adored
If I could have just let things be,
Then maybe he could now run free
Instead he stands numb with a silent...

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I'm at your grave on this mournful day
There is so much that I want to say 
I turned my back when you needed me
Ignored the signs that were plain to see.

I was so selfish living the life 
Didn't matter that you were my wife
You were...

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Guilt And Betrayal


         "Guilt is the ultimate executioner__of those who betray the truth"







Penned: 1/12/2022
             5:30 p.m.
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Guilt is a wasted emotion,
like a drop in the ocean,
pray for forgiveness and move on,
as God suppresses a yawn....

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“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.”  2 Corinthians 9:8 of the King James Bible; "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin,...

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For All Of My Sin, Guilt And Shame…

The sins  I’ve committed…  There are so many.
Is there any hope for me.   Is there ANY?

The things I’ve done have caused me much shame.
I’m often embarrassed when 
others call my name.

My past failures and...

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When your heart shuns flattery's lies,
it opens and lets the truth in.
And time mutes the varied voices
fear once amplified deep within.

You know of love's magic through dreams,
where hope's crumbling walls get rebuilt.
And the sanctuary of sleep
banishes whisperings of guilt.

Your mind's a fantasy playground;
filled with flashes...

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Suffocating,
In the depths of sorrow,
Beneath a flood of doubts.
Gasping,
Unable to surface,
I frantically search 
For what weighs me down;
I feel nothing,
But the burden of guilt 
That fills my soul,
And then I realize
The anchor is me.

©Ana Espinola Collins...

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There exists no more certain 
assassin of joy than that of
anger turned within.
Guilt’s grim scepter,
harrowed mind thus firmly wields,
and this with deft uncommon,
to bring renewed complaint
at slightest urge.
Senseless ruin whose
vapid tongue hisses
only self-derision’s name,
nobility to confound.
Slacken then this twisted cord
and in its place benign regret,
for...

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Through shadowed trails beneath the moon’s cold stare.
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace in my gut
     No slumber dreamt; no answer could I get.

Eurasian owl with orbs of liquid flame
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Some mistakes are
Not so easy to erase
Some linger
And haunt you
No matter what you’ve done
No matter what you do
As you try to forget
As you try to make amends
Sometimes forgiveness
Never seems to come
Sometimes you’re so much
Harsher on yourself


Submitted on August 26, 2019 for contest OVERCOMING MISTAKES sponsored...

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