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Self Torture Poems - Poems about Self Torture

The piper is paid
...When all is said and done, And the piper is paid What a relief it will be The end of this 38 year game that was played To get out of darkness, to find the light A new future begins, happines......

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Categories: self torture, betrayal, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Don't be afraid of
...On a hot and windless night I lay in bed quietly with a bit sad Looking back on the journey A shadow appears bashfully on the catwalk As shy as debtors for a grace time hide I feel odd suddenl......

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Categories: self torture, bullying, confidence, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love's Fragility
...Love is such a fragile sentiment So oft confused with sex, So in our daily double dealings We render it is so indefinable Like the faint flicker of a candlelight That is blown out by our despair......

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Categories: self torture, love,
Form: Free verse
Contradictions Hypocrite
...Contradictions hypocrite There’s a big black hole where my heart should be And it’s killing me! Just to be me. I try to change and remove the pain, But it’s a part of me now; my soul is stai......

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Categories: self torture, death, love, me, pain,
Form: Bio
Minefield
...Minefield I wish I could navigate the minefield of my mind Its corners dark and undefined. One step too far, it all explodes It explodes, my being erodes. I walk through slowly with a hopeful f......

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Categories: self torture, anxiety, depression, fear, pain,
Form: Rhyme



Soul Addiction
...And so I come back again and again to revisit our love and why I foolishly let it slip away Self torture? No To feed my soul's addiction......

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Categories: self torture, addiction, love,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Living With a Myth
...Living With A Myth How dares one to speak of disability and live with it to tell the story narrate the hardship soft embrace of active vibrant vital being ‘other’ different......

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Categories: self torture, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Siege Mentality
...Simple neighbour but a potential predator Images of a bad X-ray seen through hospitable beings Every smile is perceived mischievous Growing bad impression on constant g......

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Categories: self torture, adventure, allusion, angst, anxiety,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member My Cursed Self-Affliction
...I've been stabbing myself for years, and causing these forlorn tears. Wounds that will never heal because of the weapon I wield. Not a blade, but with my eyes, from reading the bitter cri......

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Categories: self torture, feelings, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Self Preservation
...I’ll stay away… from what brings pain What makes tears fall like acid rain I’ll stay away… from what is fake What makes my heart about to break I’ll ......

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Categories: self torture, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
False Boundaries
...I again went for the goldfish. One day I took you, in the night sky, rubbing on the sea, under an ebony moon. The roasted munching in fabricated letters for the orgiastic drill. Why one ......

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Categories: self torture, art,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Are You the First To Be An Ex
...There are some colours that can never be repainted, marks that can never be removed and stains that can never be covered. Move on! My past loved one, don't hold unto my sho......

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Categories: self torture, break up, relationship, sad,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Hospital Wait
...sitting in the waiting room during the designated “visiting hours” means nothing to the loved one in turmoil--- for while the reality of the person on the bed in the cutting room is more than enoug......

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Categories: self torture, life, words,
Form: Free verse
Femme Fatale
...Perfection, As your femme fatale walks into existence. With eyes like that, there is no resistance, No steering away or meeting halfway, Her coloured eyes and deadly stare, As you are forceful......

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Categories: self torture, love
Form: Free verse
A Message To Akj
...If I could scream truth from the mountain tops, and whisper false pretenses, Then by the breath of a ghost I would confess that I am content, But by the yawp of a barbarian, I would raise my vo......

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Categories: self torture, lost love, romancelove,
Form: Free verse

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