Best Torments Poems

Forsake me my clumsy heart
I have known peace and joy
But held them as a baby held a toy
How foolish a mischief on my part

Daring darling endeavours
Gaming the survival tempest 
Stunts begrudge in me a shredded grandeur
I have found the misery I sought 

After war is...

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Love twists and torments the fragile young mind.
Nothing seems to help heal it, not even time.
That’s why never again, you’ll trust someone.
No matter what they say, what’s done is done.
    The mark has been placed, it shall not part.
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Tomorrow's just a distant dream
Beyond the sunset sky
Elusive as the greatest love
Where shadows can't reside

For bitter as a torments woe
Steadily and vast
Where dreams resort to wishes now
I've secretly been cast

At break of day just past dawn
A souless shadow creeps
Searching for the unkempt joy
Yet never will...

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Incessant flagellation no longer torments nor assails psyche of mine...

until courtesy amazing grace interceded
in the doggone guise 
of Canis lupus familiaris
unwittingly timely deliverance
videre licet as an unconditionally loving 
emotional support animal.

Emotional and financial crucifixion
synonymous with being
figuratively nailed to the cross
or flayed into a bloody pulp,
which...

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