Collateral Poems - Poems about Collateral

Collateral Damage

I come with cracks you can't see at first—
Hairline fractures from love turned curse.
Each “I love you” I gave was a losing bet,
Now I cash out in shame and cigarette.

I’m broke—not just wallet, but soul and pride,
A man half-standing with nowhere to hide.
I lean too hard on the one still near,
Drowning in love, suffocating with

Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage

Social 
Evolution
Cleanly Sliced...

With A
Selfish
Edge.

-Gray Squirrel

11-08-2024

In a world of shadows, where light is a collateral dream

In a world of shadows, where light is a collateral dream,
We wander through the labyrinth of times, with heavy steps and heart in hand,
We string our thoughts on a canvas of clear sky, but what is clarity,
When everything is just an echo of times past, an amalgam of illusions?
Once we believed that clouds hide the

Collateral Hearts

To kindle flames for which the heart has yearned,
One sets out on a quest to find great love,
Each mountain climbed, no corner left unturned,
From deepest seas to endless skies above.

As sunlight pierces through a clouded sky,
True love awakens what was cold and still,
It finds its nest where deepest passions lie,
In spaces longing for true love

Collateral Damage

The hardest lesson old age has taught me,
About life is that collateral damage will never let me be.

When I was young collateral damage was not real to me,
It was something dreamed up to by others with no plan B,
Those in Authority who could not see,
That everything should be free,
And no harm should ever come to

Collateral Damage

Words left borrowed
 heavy on the heart
Actions defaulting
 stillborn and dark

Pawning the foundling
orphan on loan
Love unbequested 
— dying alone

(Dreamsleep: April, 2024) 

Collateral Damage Is Not Only For Generals To Have Sleepless Nights Over

I used to think collateral damage was something,
Only Generals and politicians had to worry about.
How wrong I was.
No matter whether the decisions we all take are good or bad,
Others mostly bare the consequences.
And there is no use denying that fact.

Parents will have sleepless nights over the decisions they make,
Concerning their children.
Doctors will have sleepless nights

Little Collateral Damage

Children's lives lost to war - a grave mistake, 
Sad unforgiving abnormality.
Damage, collateral, for no one's sake,
Spurns norms of humankind's morality. 

Failure to survive beyond the childhood 
To heinous human criminals of war;
Fairy tales, flawed, as evil trumps the good, 
As hopes of innocence cut short to soar. 

Another war is on and children die,

Collateral Damage

"writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear ..."
Beatles, Eleanor Rigby
This poem refers to the increasing number of teenagers suffering from depression and anxiety during the pandemic.






a girl sixteen years old Jane Rigby her name
enjoyed learning bass guitar dreaming of fame
she had many friends and was good at school too
young Jane was

Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage
Written: by Miracle Man
December 4, 2021

Hurtful words flow smoothly from many a tongue,
like honey from the hive, but with stings of bees.
Thinking once spoken, that our song has been sung,
we seek forgiveness and a chance to appease.

Words often injure others, unintended,
some take pride being an expert at dishing.
Giving little thought to those being offended,
and

Collateral Damage

Father of a broken child, he was lost to a false trial.
Its hard to see through iron bars, so he'd rather admire her from the stars.

She's tied to her memories with a titanium chain.
His actions were so everlasting, and abhorrently in-humane.

She was left so alone, 
Her memories she sealed tight and hid in stone. 

He

Collateral Damage

One can hear metal grinding on metal
making a mournful sound.
A rusted door swinging aimlessly.
The sounds of the death of a town.

Or, perhaps, a section of a city
infected with jobless blight,
a paved road crumbling to nowhere,
windows boarded up from the light.

Buildings that once contained myriad sounds
of workers and machines into the night.
The stream of workers changing

Collateral Damage

My credit rating is suffering from collateral damage.

John G. Lawless
4/22/2021

Collateral Damage

No one had any idea about their game plan
X,Y were allies of z and their target was Khan
Z Zeus ordered his allies to attack Pathan
One day when Khan Pathan went to Bazar to shop
X and Y came there to cop
According to their pre planned drama they started fighting
During their fight Khan became their victim
X and

Collateral Damage

"A shame indeed!" they spat bitterly full of contempt 
Their eyes showed nothing but disdain
Her knees on the earth
"It was a mistake "she confessed 
But they had all lent out their ears

@napheeesarh
 Blindly, they did cut off all bonds
Dejected she was for she was rejected 
"Our Angel "they called during the best old days
"The pride

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