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September 12,2025

The Perfume Bottle

Words echoed that should never have been spoken.
Fiery accusations leaving hearts broken.
Twirled anger erupted, stabbing as if by a sword.
Vile innuendo from both of them, poured.
Shattered crystal, the statue she threw.
He barely recognised her, behaving like a shrew.
He glared in disbelief at the ugly scene.
Gone now, the adored devotion that once had been.
All culminating in a crescendo of bitter screams.
Her heart pounding, she envisaged her forlorn dreams.
The mirror depicts a virtual war zone.
His departure left her fragile and all alone.
She kicked the crumpled dress, realised her leg was sore.
The smashed perfume bottle still spilling across the floor.

Weeds

Call me deadly nightshade
Poison in my blood
Anger sparks cruel words
Inspired desperate actions
That cannot be undone
The weapon my tongue
Bloodsports for the soul

Im not your enemy

So many memories
of when I wasn't the enemy
when you craved just to be next to me
Flashbacks to how your love used to be
Like our future together 
was so easy for you to see
You wanted every part of me
n every night I was the one starring in your dreams
Being close made us both feel so complete
way back when it hurt so bad 
when I had to leave
I close my eyes and can still
feel my heart & souls relief 
these memories now can 
sometimes be hard to conceive 
even more so when I know
how differently Im perceived 
you no longer see what our 
Souls together can achieve 
The doubt thats filled your heart 
has left scars in parts that were
once filled with belief 
Im not your enemy 
but im almost out of energy
I cant compete
with your lost visions of me
thought your love was mine to keep
now I just sit here in complete agony
feeling so damn incomplete
Damn, the irony...

Destruction

A broken heart
Can not begin to describe 
The pain I feel
My heart was obliterated 
Pass the point of return
To the point
Where the ashes 
Of which used to contain my soul
Dissolved into the water of my tears

hope hushed

bound by doubt, I stood there amidst the bluebells
watching where she'd been but a moment sooner
dusk to come, her breath hanging like the
       shadows
she, thus departing

on my tongue, sweet words melted soft and
       tender
all those daring, romantic thoughts I'd gathered
passion dreams that longed for a voice, but
       silenced
with my reluctance

"please don't leave!", I begged of her proud
       affections
"you're the blushing flame that so warms my
       marrow!"
still, those sounds had not found my lips for
       voicing ...
heavy, that stillness

rife, those times that I'd worked hard to impress
       her
waiting, long, the chance of this evening saunter
there I stood, waist-deep in the meadow, darkened
mourning my chances

as her shape was swallowed by shrouded
       gloaming
rose the moon, perfecting its grand enchantments
I, then, choked on words meant for love's
       endeavor
now, sad ... unspoken.




Copyright © 2019 Gregory Richard Barden

Lover's heartbreak

All I have left of you is this kiss ?? 
And it wasn't even on my lips
It's just a reminder of how I fell out of love
And I'm left sitting here wondering 

The first week I'd just stand by the shower
And the water full throttle would have at me
It'd be cold but I'd stand there lost
Remembering all those warm baths we had

I walked low-strung like a sad balloon
It was hard to stay afloat
I just drugged on till the weekend
And then I drowned further in the spirits

My heart sank a little lower
This time I was sure it was going to drop
Just a little further and it won't be able to rise up
I have gone cold and forgotten like I am already

My phone's been buzzing but it's just  a distant cry
I let it go till it's off then go near it
Knowing too well it isn't you
But I just checked so that I can keep count

All I have left of you is me
At least the me before you
Sad and downcast, with no sunshine in me
But I'll weather it out till it's sunny out again

The PO£T

Broken Things

Broken mugs 

And broken promises 

A broken lamp 

And broken knuckles

A broken TV 

And a broken stack of plates 

Broken drywall 

And broken glasses 

Broken bottles

And a broken door 

This is a broken home

And my heart cannot break anymore

Cross My Heart

I cross my heart and hope to die,
A childhood pact between you and I.
A sacred X, a secret sign,
Promising your heart would stay with mine.

We sealed our words with a silent grace,
A mirrored promise on each other's face.
One soul, two bodies, a perfect whole,
Bound by a truth that fed my soul.

But you broke the cross, you left the 'X' bare,
A gaping hole where you once were.
Left me to mend what you tore apart,
A shattered promise, a broken heart.

I cross my heart, but it's just a scar,
A ghost of a twin who traveled too far.
And I'm left behind, with everything to bear,
And a broken promise hanging in the air.

Deserted

Deserted; you have left me 
wandering alone, only my mind 
to accompany my sad song. 
I sing it to an audience of one; 
myself. 

Confused; I remain lost, 
you say you love me, 
yet you refuse to speak 
the language of both 
our hearts. 

Waiting; my passion pleads 
to be expressed in its fullness, 
with no bounds, no limitations, 
even beyond our own 
expectations. 

Unrequited; I will not settle 
for one such as this; who fathoms less, 
who is unable to measure up 
to her own promises which 
I once accepted as reality.

Time Cures

Time cures most everything
And helps to heal the breaks,
But shortages of resources
Tense and test the zeal,
Creating less of what time makes
And more for it to heal.

A Soldier's Prayer

I was at war,
fighting for my nation.
Blood stained the ground,
the sounds of guns and bombs
pierced our ears—
like ominous words carved in the air.

When I lifted my head,
I saw us fighting with one hand,
while others already lay lifeless.

Our families prayed,
hoped we’d return safely.
But as I looked at the sky,
time stopped for a breath.

And I whispered—
“God, even if we lose our lives for the nation,
be with our families.
Give them hearts of stone,
so they will never regret
the prayers they made for us.”

Listen to the Wind

“Listen to the Wind” 

The wind arrives, with secrets stitched in its breath, 
It hums through the hollows of abandoned trees. 
A hush of silk, it weaves the dusk with longing, 
Its fingers comb the grass, gentle and unseen. 

And each guest watches, trembling, through the curtains. 
Rolling like sorrow across forgotten shores. 
And against the windows of weary houses. 
A lullaby layered with echoes of loss. 

The wind remembers the steps that have passed, 
And strews them as petals over the earth. 
It carries the salt of tears uncried, 
Spilling them gently into the quiet air. 

Listen—the wind is not empty but aching, 
A voice unmoored, searching for a place to rest. 
In the rafters it bides, as restless as a soul, 
Drifts away and takes some pieces of us. 

The wind does not ask for witness or reply, 
Yet, it teaches us how silence still can sing. 
When night tucks itself into the folds of shadowed valleys, 
The wind keeps vigil for all things who have no voice.

1410

A broken heart has no hole, yet it bleeds,
So time will heal the wound your hatred breeds.

Others in Our love space

Watching us harden like fallen snow.
Its pure turns into dirt
We're half dead inside
We start a creed of recovery ,
 A stain massacre will be the death of me.
Pretending we're built on solid ground.
Never really settling down 
Slowly weathering away 
Monsters in my dreams become real today.
A phantom start sleeping in our bed we made.
Waiting for us to give up.
He pounces
why we
let others in 
our love space, 

Not me, messing up something so pretty
Letting someone esle in our love space.
He still wants you.
I
Wanted you too
share your chest of lairs gold with me.
Will you serve it on my tomb.
Plates of  rust and mold.
Lemon squeezed , all trash out of me.

Only thing left is a  broken love disease.
Discard my drained soul.
Lust for others will be your treat 
when you see me leave.
Throw me in dirt with broken bones.
See how long it takes to decompose. 

Bedrock keeping hope afloat.
You're on the phone when I get home
When stones starts to slip away.
We slowly weather away 
With the  phantom that started our decay.

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