Life Pain Poems

Pile Up
self-perceived failure, blame
guilt, disappointment, shame

Pressure
unexpressed, unfulfilled needs
expectations nobody heeds

Perilous Pitch
consider this - you are much bigger
someone small can be the trigger

Pyrotechnics
An explosion, shrapnel sent
wounds...

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EMOTIONAL SHRAPNEL

Once that argument fuse has been lit
One waits for that inevitable explosion
The blast summoning the first emotion
But so painful after the shrapnel has hit

One...

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Life's loveless hand scraped me
              Blood poured on dry cement
The sun heated...

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Paint filtered through your pain
and came out as art.
Your broken body bent
under the weight of a brush
but did not succumb, instead
infused the canvas with fiery...

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Crick, Crack,Pop!,—“Ow!”, ach… won’t my joints of ache
never relent? The tension—every move—
with each attempt to loose—a rigid groove—
my muscles,—all efforts to simply break

the pressure,—ayayaye,so,taut—,to shake
free...

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Every day
I get up and question my life
The things you did to me and my body
And now I feel unworthy. 
I feel it’s hard for...

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only so much a person can take,
how much more before you break.
try to fight it for as long as you can,
but one day you have...

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A familiar voice sharing the past,
Remembering a place that didn’t last.

Sifting through ashes of another life,
Searching for beauty amongst the strife. 

Anguish surrounds me, a...

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I'm not sure when you left,
but my guess is, it's been a process 
from the beginning.
Maybe the moment you left heaven's presence
you longed for its...

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Mirror Mirror everywhere
Large Small and Pale
None it spares from the critiques of its glare 

Mirror, Mirror, it Surrounds me from everywhere
Like Im in a mirror...

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I was young when my dad left;
each day was a burden on its own.
Before he left, he and my mom would always quarrel,
and I saw...

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I see you, lurking at the edge of the crowd
with your eyes down and head hanging
When I do meet your eyes, I feel the impact
of...

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I was living with my family,
And was a happy child.
My Father helped me grew up,
To live a struggling life...

Messy hairs with darks
around my faces,
Everyday I...

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They told me that I would fall,
Not knowing I had alot in store.
I felt the pain,
But I new someday I would gain.
Nobody to trust nobody...

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A promise born, a life designed,
To emancipate, to break the bind.
But fate dealt blows, parents passed away,
Leaving her to shadows, in a world astray.

She sells...

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