Short Demoralize Poems

Women who stay have dog love.
Beat me.
Kick me.
Demoralize me and my children.
Put me down.
Call me names.
I will love you no matter what.
Women who stay are waiting to recapture
The love that was, 
and hold onto the
What still might be
He didn't mean it.
It was only once.
He's a good guy.
Women who stay have dog love.
Their abusers depend on it.
Stay all you want, women,
But could you please 
send out the children?...

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Curtains and Venetian blinds
Or shades of any kind
Block out the sunshine, sometimes
Leaving only gloom behind.

Of course, they offer privacy
To keep out prying eyes
But when they’re shut, they might,
To those inside, demoralize.

In daytime, I want all the light
It’s possible to bring
To fill the rooms where I reside
And shine on everything.

I understand at nighttime,
When some coziness holds sway,
People like to draw their curtains
But I never will, by day....

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Alluring sunshine intrudes each crack and crevasse heart possessed,

Galvanized warmth within the veins of uncharted territories flow,

Debacle through delusion of tenderness and safety repressed,

Endear so the light as demoralize be the shadow,

Reversal of sunshine bliss to swallow as disloyalty is confessed,

Liars and cheats impersonating as igniting lovers tiptoe.



April 18, 2020

Each Letter Threads The Verse Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May 

3rd Place...

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