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Painful Memories

Every day I wake up,
And every day I remember
The way you left me with no warning
Fleeing like a dog off its leash
It was my 13th birthday
I suppose that’s when fear settled in,
abandonment followed 
Filling every pore of my body
Though this wasn’t the first time,
Definitely wouldn’t be the last
I only wish I knew,
What made you leave?
Was

Categories: painful memories, anxiety, betrayal, childhood, father
Form: Free verse

Three painful memories

Three painful memories caused by no bodies.
1. Loss of friendship with many broken promises.
2. Disappointed with negative and harsh language.
3. Loved someone with heart of stone.
I shall move on to live my life.
I should pay more attention,
When you mentioned in the messages
"I break off relatsionships quickly,
I break them easily
and I usually make no effort to

Categories: painful memories, break up, friendship, grief,
Form: Free verse

Painful Memories

I remember those days spent with you
Days I walked and talked with you
Even a gentle touch of yours
Meant to me so much.

I remember those days of chats,
Sometimes funny, kind and wise
Everything you did for me,
Today filled my eyes. 

I remember those moments 
That we shared together,
It's really hard to believe
We are no more with each

Categories: painful memories, grief, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Sentence To Cold and Painful Memories

Peeping
through the blinds
into the cold
winter morn,
smut hue foliage
hung like strange fruits 
from an enigmatic shrub—
igniting a brain freeze
flask back of ourstory—
sometimes, symbolic images
bring memories of history
that can be cold and painful.

Categories: painful memories, analogy, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Baggage of Painful Memories

Crushed coquina’s pains, salty air consoled. 
Mistrusting soul, my heart could not appease.
We met when life was brimming and potholed.
My spoken words were long lost memories.

Relentlessly the past remained in view.
Romantic strolls along the shore soon died.
Again and again past pain stole love’s venue.
Good-naturedly, he listened; my soul cried.

A blemished past, his words could always

Categories: painful memories, love, memory, pain,
Form: Sonnet

Painful Memories

All his memories of her, are sealed inside a box,
Since the day she broke his heart, his hopes dashed upon the rocks.
He built a wall around his heart, with a solid iron door,
He locked up and threw away the key, now he's washed up on the shore.
She tore his world apart, threw his spirit to

Categories: painful memories, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Painful Memories

I scan the movement of the people
Ragged faces torn and wandering;
Pale their bodies, unlike the human race
And children in slum areas,
Begging for a crumb to eat
While mothers hold their thin babies
As they're dying in the street.
The coldness of the city brings painful memories--
Churches fallen, scattered stones
Drop from the blackened wind
And my forlorn figure stands alone.



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Categories: painful memories, memory, pain, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Painful Memories

Remembering what I saw
Is this memory for real
Am I torturing myself for nothing
Will this last 
Should I worry
It happened in the past
Thinking about what's in this life
Does it even matter how I feel
I'm just a man left alone
Surrounded by his own misery

Most people have turned on me
I did not realize 
This is it how I

Categories: painful memories, depression, emotions, how i
Form: Ballad

Painful Memories

Painful Memories 

 I awake and find it quiet and still
With Morning so far away 
My mind starts drifting in and out
To the past and to present day

Shadows can’t dance in the night
But they can invade my mind
I can see them from past to now
As they parade without measured time	

I have seen them as they

Categories: painful memories, memory, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Painful Memories

I lock my feelings away
It will all be okay

It’s all inside
But starting to show
Everything that 
I was suppose to let go

My veins are bleeding
My eyes are tearing

It’s all coming out
And everyone will know
All the secrets
That weren’t meant to be told

I don’t belong to me
I don’t have my keys

I grew up to fast
And have nothing to

Categories: painful memories, depression, inspirational, life, sadfeelings,
Form: I do not know?

Painful Memories

Wondering thoughts open portals for displaced memories.
Words cruised that boulevard carved in September’s wind, 
and squeezed tears from dazzling eyes.

sensitivity will never know another heart’s displeasure, 
unless tongue pluck them from mind’s controlling grip.
Laughter, unconsciously, taunts a troubled heart, 
and grimace disguised in smile’s fine garb.

September’s wind blow cool on the Ohio Valley, 
and trees

Categories: painful memories, friendship
Form: I do not know?

Painful Memories

I remember back when I was young
The way that I was raised
Too little I accomplished
Too little I was praised

Stepping stones and hinderences
Were things I grew to know
Survival was the game to play
When loneliness took hold

Unsure of which direction
To travel upon the road
I reverted back to momma
But her laden became my load

Mentally I've been challenged
Emotionally I've

Categories: painful memories, childhood, mother, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Painful Memories

You watch the tears fall from my eyes-
in yet, you don't take notice. 
You watch me scream for him-
but you still don't take notice. 
You slap me in my face,
as you tell me to shut up,
and you flaunt the desperation in you voice
while hearing my cries- 
all because of the choice you made.
I was just

Categories: painful memories, childhood, confusion, daughter, father,
Form: I do not know?