Best Paralyzed Poems
The same old feeling,
Greets me once again,
It’s weight has me stumbling,
It fills me with disdain,
How many times have I felt this pain?
Why won’t I learn these lessons,
No matter what I go through,
I have died so many times,
I thought pain was supposed to purge you,
Why wont this hurt,
Manifest some motivation,
Translate my suffering,
Into my salvation,
Why can’t I learn?
I have become so apathetic,
My tolerance for pain,
Must be utterly fantastic,
For nothing at all,
No matter how drastic,
Can motivate me,
To be any less static,
Survival demands success,
At least on some level,
But I have failed completely,
I lack that mettle,
My soul cries out,
Is redemption possible?
Or is it my fate to face,
Every single obstacle?
Yet in this agony,
A simple truth arises,
That each challenge I face,
Is actually where the prize is,
Life put me on a path,
More challenging than some,
Not to discourage,
But to prove it can be done,
I remind myself that,
Despair is part of the process,
That being paralyzed,
Is actually progress,
It shows I have learned,
To think before I act,
And at the end of this poem,
That I’ve grown is a fact.
Time wasn't on her side, for if it were, I'd still be alive
Time caught up to her and strangled her, strangling me
A hangman's noose wrapped around our necks,
snapping them like brittle winter twigs
I breathe, but I died when she died
When the stool was swept from beneath her feet,
My whole world changed
Our world
My mind, my life, my wife- gone
I feel bit, bitten bad, bitten by a venomous fang
Paralyzing my motivation to exist, to think and to live
I have nothing to live for and everything to die for
It should have been me, not her
I was the bad bone, for so long...
The hard egg turned soft
I did everything wrong
Until,
She did me right
She was my catch,
my snatch
She was my dream
She was my everything...
and more!
She done me right
And she was the light
that shined the light
That set me right
and straight me right
My lovely wife, gone
My only life, gone
And just like that...
my whole world
changed forever
I wept yesterday
I've wept today
And I will weep again...
in all my tomorrows
Until,
I can't weep,
no more
As I look into the sky
I start to realize
All my dreams are slipping away
I'm losing hope in time
I wish I could rewind
All the times I shared with you
Mistakes that I once made
Can't take away my pain
Cause I know that we are through
But if I had one more chance
To make all of this make sense
You know I would, I would do it for you
Chorus:
Oh, and I was once alive
But you left me and now I see I'm paralyzed
Oh, I think that I died
This man is gone, I can't carry on
I'm paralyzed
I've tried to carry on
But I've waited far too long
I feel I need to just give up
But something deep inside
Tells me that I'm alright
To start living, living my life again
Repeat Chorus:
Her eyes are weary
But she's wide awake
She can't seem to shake
This feeling away
She knew what you were
She had to learn the hard way
She broke out of the asylum
Night terrors still haunt her in the dark
Blinded by her dreams
There's a disease in the garden
She had no choice except
To abandon all of her sins back in autumn
Here In the shadow she cries
Every night she holds on for dear life
Barely making it out alive
In the shadow she only just survives...
In a bed she doesn't want to sleep in
In a world she doesn't want to live in
In a universe she doesn't want to exist in
Here is where she lies....
She wants to pull her stomach
Over her head and swallow
The weight is adding to the baggage
Breaking her back
It's not as strong as all this tormenting sorrow
She suffered through the invasion
Her soul is forever paralyzed
If she ends this now
She'll never feel anything again...
Here I stand
Not able to choose
When you get to an age
There is so much to lose
No time for rebuilding
If the choice goes wrong
That's why I've continued
On this path for so long
This isn't the first time
I have stood at this place
With the same decision
I didn't want to face
I wonder where I would be
If I had chosen the other road
Would I now be resting
Not carrying this heavy load?
I wish I knew the answer
Either way there is a cost
All that I have built
Or the future I have lost
Am I a coward
If I don't go the other way?
I want to listen to my gut
And what it has to say
My brain says continue
Stay on the same one
It's not about me
I have a wife and son
So I remain paralyzed
Unable to choose
Back to the beginning
Will I gain
Or will I lose
Written by Richard Lamoureux for; Standing at a Crossroad contest.
Welcome to the circus
of discrimination-
where soft subtle glances
and fragrant
touches of femininity
are burnt in ashes,
through howling rays
from the sinister sun,
triggering wildfire
chaos,
conquering and controlling
roles of women;
endlessly shape-shifting
from predatory postures
of pretend protectors,
that twist and turn
tangled heartstrings
from a patriarchal pantomime
of their treacherous charade,
obnoxiously oppressing
obscured boundaries,
with their art of arrogance,
placing labels upon
our need for freedom
as sheer ignorance
of aliens aspiring for acceptance.
But what if there was
more to a flower,
than to be left-
dreamlessly
paralyzed in puddles
of poisoned petals?
Is there no wind
that can wash away
wounds of the world
engraved as a
secret symphony
of sorrow,
within sepia sepals?
Will storms carrying
songs of a
suppressed soul be
forever heard
as forced dreams?
Mimicking motionless mountains,
silently static, mistaken for
serenity,
whilst enchanting hills
draped in olive green silk
are confused as gilded
stars in worn novellas,
streaming rivulets of
emerald lakes,
where manuscripts
of tears are apprehended
as melodramatic melancholy.
Oblivious to the wilderness,
where words whirl as poetic
prophecies,
descending as
theatrical thunder,
striking upon abandoned
entities of earth, eclipsed with
fingerprints of
love lingering
liquid fears of
a female fighter,
rising above acrobatic
tyrants—
for maternal daffodils are lions,
glazed in an idle arias,
composing battles
using only words as weapons.
Paralyzed
Obscured by an air of grief
Waves of unending gloom
Followed by a deep sense of dread
The world pours itself down an endless pit of doom
Every word belies itself at it's inception
Torn in two by the speaker
A cantacerous clammering inside, yearning for truth
Every day a another lie, making us stronger yet weaker
One moment a feining of the pasts simplicity
An adjure of release or respite
But like every past moment
It is taken by the userper, another fight
This life is not meant for the meek
It is not meant for any child of mine
To have to recount any would leave me speechless
How do I put in words that we are not fine
You will be used
You will be abused
Do not quit but do not be silent
Least they be amused
Take heart, sweetheart
Each day becoming easier, I go back to my routine,
The stress no longer strangling my heart, instead God's giving me peace,
Still feeling the pain from time to time, but what I've come to find,
Is that these were your problems all along, they weren't even mine,
God showed me as I felt for you in the silence you left behind,
That you were the one from the beginning, who needed me in your life,
That I wasn't searching for you, that i was content with all the love that i had,
He reminded me with all my family and friends and showed me how beautiful I truly am,
When I tend to look back I'm still hurt, and it still brings tears to my eyes,
That you couldn't see the love that made that effort and stood right in front of you the whole time,
You cried abandonment over n over, but you don't see that's what you do,
It was never them that walked away in silence, honey, it was you!,
You never learned how to communicate your heart, and now I see it's not my fault,
So I really feel bad you internalize so much, I pray God opens your heart,
Black
silence
wakes me up
spooky feeling
my heart beats eighty miles an hour
who and where I am does not register
hyper hearing
kicking in
fast heart
fear
noise
sudden
startles me
outside door creaks
too paralyzed to run I wait for it
I have the will to conquer the world,
Yet I find I cannot move.
I freeze in thought,
I’m paralyzed,
A motion-
Heavy-
None.
I walk around paralyzed, I cant feel my eyes
deadly pain, tearless cries
without a doubt, I see not my lies
I swear carelessly, with a inconceivable demise
I suffocate as the sun may rise
Paralyzed, painless vibes
I see not, i hear not, I hear not, I see what
I walked in, I walked out, I walked out, the door
shut
Stuck between the clouds and the golden sun,
epitomizing the sky
Knowing 1 day that I would die
I, had a cold soul, without a tear to cry
No other way to communicate with the one I love,
she dose not want to hear it, something she is sick of.
The sound of my voice, the words that I type,
Do they make any difference in the status of our strife?
I know some times were rough and I wish I had control,
not just of our lives but the direction of my soul.
Is living in fear of what you might become worth all that strength?
Something I'm trying to convince you otherwise at great lengths.
Caring for someone is much different than love,
being cared for, in the back of your mind I can be shoved.
Don't think that you're the only one who feels as if they've wasted their time,
we both tried to change each other for what we thought was for the better even if it was
sublime.
Having high hopes for us before I left, I guess I was only fooling myself,
now that proof of us existing together is taken off the walls and shelves.
I can't say I'm sorry enough for what I've done,
thinking in my sad state that all answers are at the end of a gun.
Responsible for destroying a family and a soul mate,
I can only expect to be received with such hate.
Hate not for what I've done but for what I am trying to accomplish,
trying to earn and keep the love you once had for me with a promise.
This is how life is for now being paralyzed,
no joy, no future, only demise.
When you
walk out my eyes get watery as if im crying the seven seas my knees start to
tremble my body becomes weak pearlized not in service anymore and if i dare to
speak ill realize my whole mouth is weak starting on my chin and up to my
jawbone as my eyes flutter to stay open im seeing no signs of sight only a blurry
picture of us holding each other one more twist of the door knob an two steps
before you walk out that door feeling body heat seeing that i cant see anything a
voice whispers to me.
"Ill see you after work"
No words from my pen.
Want inner peace, and amen.
Plus, God's rules, all ten.
Rhymed Senryu
12/14/2020
One night darkness surrounded us
Holding on tightly to each other and such
Yet our feelings for one another
We still didn't trust
Even though there was love in our eyes
When we gazed into each others
You know the kind of love that has you hypnotized
Leaves your souls paralyzed
We still let the other go
The move I had made which made it all happen was bold
When your goodbye to me was told
My blood ran cold
Something about that night
Never was far from ever being right
You and I were meant to fit
Each and every little bit
Moving on is easier when you believe
The control you think you have over yourself will never leave
Was I ever fooling myself
You are the only one I could never really let completely leave my thoughts
You always told me stop having self doubts
Was with him for years
He caused me lots of lonely tears
And drowned me in lots of self doubt
Was never sure if I would ever be strong enough to get out
But I did and yet all that time
All those years had past by
And I found that you were the one still on my mind
Some people have said leave this alone
Go free be on your own
You can't go back
Some tell me give it all you got
Go on give it another shot
Time's to fragile to waste
Yeah we can't go back
From where we once were at
But I don't think we need to
Even if the feelings we had for each other may have been hiding for so long
It don't mean they are still not there as before
It don't mean they are still not just as strong
The love has always been there all along
We don't need to go back
Life is to fragile to waste
Together we can move forward
And at a much slower pace
We're older and wiser then years past
Back when we took things to fast
Slow it down and make it last
Once again we could have the darkness surround us
Holding on tightly to each other and such
This time in our feelings for one another we can trust
Let the love in our eyes take us once again by surprise
As we gaze and can't look away cause we're hypnotized
Our souls paralyzed