Best Taken Aback Poems

i have a particular set of skills
popping words like pills
Trying to beautify pain
that slowly kills
suspect myself
when innocent
I will look
I will find me
and i will kill me
eventually...

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Hit me like a back-handed slap
when off-guard, unprepared and vulnerable.
I could not see it coming!
Lover's sweet words, once honeyed and kind,
now sharp and cruel as thorns, piercing unrelenting,
hacking into the quick, where you know it hurts.
Leaving me shattered, splattered,
stunned and dumped off-track.
I was taken aback,...

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