Relationship Stress Poems

She never got spoon-fed and started licking off the knives
But knives cut her tongue
Her home is in the white spaces but not the words
You claim...

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The ugly face of stress
peeking out from under your skirt
tearing the peace of just another day
into pieces you can manage
swallow or scatter

The ugly face of...

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I'm beating my heart against a barbed wire fence.
Pain from all directions.
I don't know what to do..
It's killing me.

I just want this pain to stop,
It's...

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It’s cute when a young child keeps asking why.
Without an answer they think they will die.
Some don’t ask questions because they are shy.
Some others give...

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a buffer between the you and the me
the constant mediator chaperoning

criticizing with its glare and pursed lips
negating the realm of possibilities

as it downplays the fragranced...

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For every relationship
we can rediscover
a season
of increase
and tipping point
toward decrease.

For every correlation,
positively resonant
and negatively dissonant,
a regenerative
becoming degenerative season
for building up and out
and tearing down and...

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Too much enlightenment
with not enough empowerment
depresses me to feel isolated
and surrounded by self-impressed fools,
like me
or against me.

Too much empowerment
with not enough enightenment
anticipates
and advocates
and avidly endorses
narcissistic...

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Give me a moment before you judge harshly. Given the facts, don't get manipulated by honesty. I know that help is required but never spoken...

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Relationship's stress:
Gives awful distress;
Depression caress,
Patience can't assess,
What lone words undress.

In my mind's bus;
I sit mistrusts,
To alight fuss,
While turning wuss.

Our affair;
Faults ensnare,
To repair...

Weird souls'
Wrath goals,

Paired!...

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I have been fighting a battle
One that I have told few about 
that sent my life into a whirl spin
Something that caused depression 
to rear...

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next time I’ll grab the reins
of those exhausting relationships
I’m fed up and simply can’t
sit through another
one-way conversation
I just can’t do it anymore

next time I’ll ask
because...

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i reach for you
but you're not there
i call your name 
but you don't care
there's a rift that's
widening by the day
i struggle on my own
to find...

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The cunningness I feel is near:
It tries coming for a stay
Living within a beast, I once lived in
It's a bit dangerous wanting my play.

I have...

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Tensions between professional teacher
or theological preacher
and therapeutic integrity
are as old as cultural wars
between knowing scientific methods
and feeling artistic expressions

InBetween noetic purpose
of LeftBrain thinking
and deep poetic...

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"I didn't know conversation was an art"

"For a woman, everything is an art"

"I don't think I want to be a woman"

"Ah, my dear, someone has...

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