Long Pain society Poems

The victim list keeps growing

But no one really cares

The gristmill claims another one

Keep your hands in and don't stare

Hollywood is the golden land

The eternal silver screen

But many souls are lost here

A lot of greats or...

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When I was in High School I felt it. 
Then something happened.
Year 2001—
Fresh-ness…
Dr. Dre produced you.
You were fearless.
Slim Shady—
Eminem—
Marshall Mathers.
Colorless rainbows speckled eyes.
I know why I had a problem with you.
Jealousy…?
Rap envy was.
I wrote during...

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Likewise, he will not discredit her in the festivals
It was just a matter of breaking my heart, so all the common people will not do anything

Oh God, what a strange world of eunuchs you have...

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DEMONS
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


There are scenes we encounter on a daily basis
Worn out shoes, dirty clothes and unshaven faces
A man unwashed and dirty, acting  erratic
Joined by a likewise, both living nomadic
They’ve just emerged from across...

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Esta sociedad ciega esta en crisis,

Es la causante de la corrució caótica,

Solo viven de la intención inseguros,

Sin saber qué es la determinación,

Dejándose llevar por una doctrina quebrantada...

 

La sociedad solo vive por vivir,

No dejando legados,

Sino...

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Turbulant radient red sky with sheet swirl mashed potato
cloud mush peered lazily through a curious brown
haze of dirty armpit fizz, enlisted somewhere
bewteen a prebeginning solar start dot deposit burst peak
and a futuristic nuclear waste singulsr...

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My cousin Tallie
was a real-life
award winning
beauty queen
from age six to eighteen

The kind who seems
a cardboard cut-out
Southern stereotype
all big hair and hype
manicured nails and
well arranged...
assets
but in reality
there was much more to Tallie

Her favorite movie
was Fried Green...

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Other people’s heartache
by americus


Other people’s heartache.

It will greet you at your door with a solid expression, smiling and grieving at the same time
Other people’s heartache plays on your movie screen, happening before the sublime

But other...

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Everyone knows and can see, 
the wretched monster
who has been hiding in his closet for so long.

They do their best to ignore him,
make him feel worthless,
try and make him realize
his kind isn’t welcome in society.

The...

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There is no possible way to tell anyone who is reading this, 
How much pain and suffering I have endured over the past three months with this. 
Two or three days and you should be...

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This poem is a repost. I originally posted it the first week I came to PSoup. It received no comments. I chose to repost it because it is one of my personal favorite poems, and...

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I married a rape survivor
She was terrified and broken
Shaken till the last drop of blood
She can’t even face the mirror now
Now she hates herself for being a girl
Just few seconds had stolen her identity
Her respect...

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To dwell among the ruins;
littered with broken bottles and flattened plastic cups,
stamped out cigarette butts
Cast off lottery binges,
crushed ghetto dreams and empty syringes
Poisoned by so many stings of inequality
Flickering opportunities ...
shed your skin, and perhaps...

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I don't know if I told you this already, 
But it is a mistake to love me. 
My parents did. They now regret it. 
My Grandma did. Now she's in pain. 
My family loved me,...

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Arrogant are the children of despair,
Battling demons that threaten to betray,
Caustically they bedevil the ensnared,
Damaging thus their reputations frayed.

Either they rise or die in that prison,
For none may escape its hostilities,
Given they'd welcome change to...

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Son, don't stand there with that cold stare and judge me
When I twist the cap and pour a glass and tilt my head gently

Just know that I'm in search of a little relief and peace...

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Attempts to walk, but every step leads into a sinkhole 
Narrow escapes from the sinkhole, but can't move, one leg always chained
Sometimes the chains come off, and I walk dragging the chains with me
In and...

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" An Encryption ... "

( Acts 14: 22 / Ca. 8: 6, 7 )


The Pain of A Thousand Cuts
The Shame of A Thousand Crawls
The Blame of A Thousand Faults
That Came To Mean: Nothing ... Or...

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I looked thru the bottom of a glass
And thought I saw, what wouldn't come to pass
But the closer I got to bottom, the more that I could see
The bottom of that glass had no future...

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Should I disregard
what other people think or,
balanced on the brink, maintain
a thin-veneered façade?
Where shall I store,
how shall I keep,
the poetry I must write
but cannot show--
that which smolders deep
and threatens to erupt?
Must I lock it all
securely...

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You broke my heart
You made my world fall apart
You made me cry
You made me realize truly
That when all is said and done
Grief is the price we pay for love
I tried to make things right
A million...

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Don't ask anything that's so improbable...
if your faith is lacking a strong foundation,
if it has doubt in folks who had a conviction:
didn't they fight to accomplish the impossible?

My question is, " Do miracles exist? "
Whenever...

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Pressure in a crowded mind 
A test where rest is hard to find
The guilt that comes with procrastination ,
Leads me to kill my imagination .

“Be the best”, they say. But do they know
The pain I...

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He stumbles toward the neon light,
shoulders hunched, face out of sight.

It's not respect he seeks, but space
to rest awhile, just need a place.

"But don't get Jeeter's place, he's mean,
and Mary Sue ain't all that keen."

There's...

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Hunger Spot

Hunger is usually done alone, in the dirty card board box, called home
On wet, cut corners out of traffic, forever in unguarded dark
Winds, harsh voices, howling on hollow self and scene are what remain
The...

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