Ripping Me Apart
I’ve realized, lately
I don’t want to be seen,
I live in the darkness
Hide behind a screen.
Whatever virus appeared
Attached itself to my heart,
It hasn’t left since
And it’s ripping me apart.
Because heaven descended
And took them from me,
Just as I thought
I was finally free.
Funeral after funeral
They came and they went,
Till all of me was shattered
and battered and
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Categories:
ripping, deep, depression, emotions, grief,
Form: Quatrain
'And How Does That Make You Feel?'
The pages meet my fingertips again
Tenderly guiding the ink, as if it were rotten bile
Channelling all away
To minimal change of my world
The illusory script does not function
To the disappointment of myself and the happiness of others
And again to my bewilderment.
The room spins even though.
A dumb look washes over my face or it must have
Reality pixelates
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Categories:
ripping, angst, anxiety, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Ripping My Sanity
Ripping my sanity
Here in the pit of a sanctified cavern
Darkness invades every pore of my soul
Grasping at walls made of stone, cut and jagged
Tearing my flesh as my fingers inscroll
Carving a poem of granite intentions
Phrases of love fall as dust to the floor
Evidence trailing in breaths hardly reasoned
Nothing to rhyme as I
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Categories:
ripping, dark, lost, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Ripping
I rip and chew at my edges
Trying to eradicate
Placate
Eleviate
My pain
The anxiety
The part of me that threatens to freeze
My mental disease
The part I hope no one sees
The inner demons I wish to appease
The tattoos that your artistry
Injected
Under my skin
With invisible ink
Yet I feel it there with the words I think
As I
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Categories:
ripping, angst, judgement, mental illness,
Form: I do not know?
Ripping Light Bare
Beneath the hum of porch light
You caress my fragrant skin,
While these eyes undress a gaze
Deepening breaths to ignite.
As we move like moistened curves,
From a heated rendezvous
I become a flamed woman…
A rhythm of dusk immersed.
And a thousand moths quiver
Glowing on open window
Of porch light’s swelling cave…
Ripping my moth-flesh bare.
Upon the grass, lips create
One prayer wafting
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Categories:
ripping, longing, passion,
Form: Rhyme
The Ripping
You ripped me
One word at a time
Shredded my smile
Pulled at my sensitivity
I was never strong enough
To pull back my paper heart
You took the pieces of me
Arranged them in your perfect order
I prayed for the wind to come
Hoping I would be carried away
Flutter to a new more loving home
Instead, I endured your paper cuts
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Categories:
ripping, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Within the Ripping Soul
Within A ripping Soul
A feeling of loss in lore
Amidst the web of the whirling wind
On the eyes of the earth
Amidst the whirling wave
On the eyes of the seas
A soul emerging to grab
The edges of the complex world
It is growing and living in
To capture its entirety
The more it attempts
The more complex the word seems
That the ripping
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Categories:
ripping, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Ripping Apart At the Seams and Hopeful Dreams
Let me pretend
Let me close my eyes and remember that this is a dream
One more lie to help mend a ripping seam
Just one more moment I can forget how much my heart bleeds
One more love that is less then what it seems
Dear pain, the pain of dreaming, the pain of being
My
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Categories:
ripping, loss, lost love, uplifting,
Form: ABC
Ripping Reality
Forever trapped, can't break free, I need out, let me be
Drops of falling fear, bursting into puddles of courage
Rivers run with oil, painting earth's mighty image
The sun finally warming me with memories of old friends
I'll follow them anywhere if my heart intends
Rise above the clouds, chasing the not-so-silly dreams
No way to tell real from fake,
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Categories:
ripping, confusion, hope, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Ripping Christ
Holier than thou,
sacred as a cow
anointed with margarine spread;
a Sunday to rest,
some socks and a vest
and a penchant for laying in bed.
Sicker than sick
and thicker than thick,
drugged with a heroin chic,
bright light beams down
through a crack in the crown,
spearing a spoon-bending freak.
Speak unto thee,
the voice of a
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Categories:
ripping, allegory, history, social, time,
Form: Verse