Dark Divorce Poems

Here's a story poem about a girl's tragic descent, imbued with dark imagery:
A Broken Doll's Lament
Tiny fingers, a gap in the wood, a scene etched...

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You're a cannibal, baby, 
consuming pieces of my heart, 
chewing on my frailty, 
and tearing me apart, 

You're a scavenger, baby, 
overhead with your eyes...

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Unlikely Mike
by Michael R. Burch

I married someone else’s fantasy;
she admired me despite my mutilations.

I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine.
I hid my...

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                    Love and Loss

Ghosts of missed...

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She was and then she wasn’t. 
A ghost in the rearview. I can still feel her.
The glass slipping from my fingers. Shattered to pieces. 
Eyes...

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Once, so long ago, in love, we did believe
A union was forged, forever to conceive
But shattered dreams and promises untold
Betrayal's wrath, our story now unfolds

With...

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'Kept in the dark, but you were there'
Always wondering how I was,
Always happened to somewhat care
It just ain't the way it all seems

Bedroom door kicked...

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I haven’t words for explaining,
Reasons aren’t within my grasp.
I don’t know how to speak of then,
Without reflecting shadow of doubts.

I know that the past can’t...

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In tones of frenzied feelings,
Rage, responding to rage,
Chiseling on the stone, a heart
Dusted with doubt, jealously,
Hesitant to believe 
There was once a gentle light,
Glowing like...

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Dwelling in twisted tulips of fate, 
I'm etching life's blackened stars beneath
Vehement veil of thunderstruck twilight, for, 
Obsidian tornados have crushed affectionate shorelines. 
Remorseful roses...

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Desire to hold on to or dispose of your closest relationship.
Involves a mixture of emotions and challenges.
Very disruptive time in one’s life.
One life experience you...

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Demons gleefully collect  traces of love 
Intrigued by intellectuals' war games 
Voicing their venomous phrases 
Over petty domestic crimes 
Rage trickles the air as...

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Devastated
Individuals
Vowing love now departing
Over time
Reconciliation
Comes with
Eternal peace for all....

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Drained, estranged, fragrance of love ebbs
Immersed now in dark dungeons of despair
Vibrancy of dying ember, for freedom begs
Oh, why no longer does love with love...

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I PRAY A BLACK CAT,
 CROSSES YOUR PATH.
  I PRAY THAT SOMEONE,
 STEALS YOUR STASH.

  I PRAY YOUR DREAMS,
 NEVER COME TRUE.
 ...

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