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Gaslighted Poems

Gaslighter

...She gaslighted me until my self worth had been burned,
She held her torch tightly in her hand, 
Prepared to blow up our friendship once more,
A flame flickered in her eyes, a flame only I could se...

Categories: gaslighted, friend, sad,
Form: Free verse

Forgive me if my love seemed less

...Forgive me if my love seemed less
           ( An apology to myself )

Forgive me if my love seemed less 
when you were fading into the dark,
If I couldn't grasp your hand as shadows pulled you ...

Categories: gaslighted, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Psychopath

...At age three she was the baby who couldn't feel afraid
A life track was set out, just the way she was made
They tested her at eighteen, with images of blood and gore
No galvanic skin response, a s...

Categories: gaslighted, betrayal, character, emotions, evil,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Land of the blind

...
In UK towns gangs raped girls for years
Drugged them, passed them around, laughed at their tears
Police blamed the victims, thought they were at fault
Also didn't want trouble, open up pandora's...

Categories: gaslighted, abuse, betrayal, hate, rights,
Form: Lyric

Psychotic

...Psychotic 

    1. I love you, and it's pathetic.

    I know, I know—you put the psyche in psychotic.

    You raised me up at my lowest moment,

    So you could push me off when I was done...

Categories: gaslighted, absence, anger, break up,
Form: Free verse

Ink Has Run Dry

...My typewriter has seemingly enough ink
I'm ready to start a poem about sanguine hills
and trusting in angels 2313
but the ribbon has ran dry
The lost longing licks my lips
jerred past the emeral...

Categories: gaslighted, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Gaslighted

...Without truth ! there is no shore
so swimming in the endless 
will be the struggle for ever more.
And no hope!  Of a clear new dawn
Instead a myre,  so deep , and truth
Is caged, beneath evils s...

Categories: gaslighted, irony,
Form: Rhyme

Interim

...this stage became yours
and the reality has fallen apart
by the industrial silence
I am but a reflection of your shadow
gaslighted by your key-light
deprived of my enlightenment
there is no yes...

Categories: gaslighted, light, love, mirror, pain,
Form: Free verse

A Word For That

...Gaslighted: Abused and lied to
Script is flipped when I challenge you
Smoothed over with wink & back-pat
Now I know, there's a word for that

Body-shamed: Self made disgusting
...

Categories: gaslighted, community, encouraging, life, society,
Form: Kyrielle