Best Self Protection Poems

An unstable globe
One nation will toil and groan
Injustice for all...

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It's complicated
The way she looks at him
Not the way it used to be
When he had held her gaze
She had expected to love him all of...

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"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?"
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land.

Who tries to grow out of this...

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The Stars and Moon had long been friends
    but this was set to change.
As the Moon just up and walked away
 ...

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Line of inquiry:
The ego within forced me to resist
But now I wish I had effused a love mist
With aplomb and flair, just kind of left...

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Your heart is tardy,
hardly used except to whisper 
words of courteous affection.

Passion takes a backseat with your
carefully selected styles of self-protection.
'I love you' hardly ever...

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My meaning was mistaken
and her offense was taken
so in defense she quarantined her soul,
and safe inside she set
her screens for self-protection,
so she is always in...

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Mirrored intentions
reflected projection
generators of energy
manifests creativity
true faces shown
beyond masked pretension
hidden behind walls
of self protection
honest communication
brings inner elation
freedom to be
who you are naturally
stripped naked to the...

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The constitution of ‘behind closed doors’ has been ripped apart
wild and adventurous, the silent additions to personalities
while morality is shredded in the offices of humanistic...

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While Being Raped

While being raped yell fire!
Neighbors fear for their property not you
Remember firemen have axes also  
To chop his thingy in two

While being...

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with my eyes closed I trusted in you...
I left everything behind
like I was blind.

with my eyes closed I loved you...
no matter how long I had...

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There is a child in me,
she hides way down beneath,
the adult in me.

She saw awful things, 
she felt many painful things,
and heard many harsh things.

The...

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Fear hampers success and innovation,
Many health problems, fear a causation
With fear our happiness we restrain
Out of fear we endure persisting pain.
All have some fear or...

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He's broken into my heart
Climbed all the walls of my self protection
So precariously constructed
Past my guard against a possibility of being wounded and betrayed
My soul...

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What do you need?
Loneliness
Behind your heart’s curtain
Standing defiant
Kneeling slowly
Flowers of hope
We have sowed in flesh
Withering
Under narcissistic necessity
In An atmosphere 
Made for self protection
Clouds consisting of...

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