Unfair Poems

Thought you were so clever

You gave the perfect alibi
Swept your dirty laundry under the mat
Fooled everyone ~ everyone but me



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 1st place 2025

I Know Life's Unfair

I know how the cycles of life, death, and rebirth can be unfair.
I know how it used to feel like they never showed they care.
I know how it feels when nobody at all wants to share.

The Ugliness of Money

Why do so many not have enough
    for their most basic needs

While others have more
    than they can ever spend

They can’t take it with them in the end

There's no such thing as progress

there is ugliness in this world
where there is no need for it

why do we tolerate indifference
injustice, brutality and greed
when there's plenty to go around

it's a game of checkers for the have's
and mere survival for the have-not's



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Plight of the Wight

Never again to know fresh air,
Combing worms from my matted hair.
No one remains who’d ever care —
Tied to my grave, this lonesome baire.
I must escape the sun’s harsh glare,
Tread carefully down crumbling stair,
Descend into my crypt just there,
Where I sit alone in dark despair.
Upon my ancient worm-eaten chair,
Inside my vaulted charnel house lair,
Such a sad

Sorry for being me

I'm sorry for being black
I'm sorry I ever cared
Every moment
Every smile
Was pity
Why be ashamed?
When I'm just me
Standards on standards to fit
Expectations to meet
People to please
Now I am ashamed
Ashamed that I could not fit and distort my true self for others
Eight years old, on a staircase, trying to scrape off my complexion
Maybe if I was not

A F D

A ll 
F or
D istraction
i g farben, now bayer pharmacutical firm, worldwide reach seems almost charmed.? Purveyors of zyklon b the
Cause of great harms.' Still today a legal entity' in lawful
Standing for-sure.' Despite supplying genocidal gas into
The concentration camps very doors.' While Alternativ für
Deutschland..' Is targetted and called 'far right' by day and
Night.' Yet I

Tragic and Unfair

why did it begin in the first place?
and then why, it have to end so early?
it was meant to be another lovelorn story,
a story with arcs developing faster than fiction
everything shattered in the blink of an eye
our first conversation, it was all accidental
and so was our fate- it was tragic and unfair

Forced To Relive The Trauma Of A Manipulated Unfair Trial Seven Times A Year

Dear Reader,

How does one pen the unspeakable? 
To endure injustice not once, but repeatedly—like a cruel wind that circles back to shred what little is left of a tattered soul.

The echoes of a manipulated trial, the mockery of fairness, reverberate through me like a wound that refuses to heal.

Nightmares are my inheritance;
they come cloaked in

Labour of Hate

Labour of hate

Turn on the heating 
It’s getting cold
Why do we shiver?
Just because we’re old
It’s Kier’s labour, who wants us all to die
Said he liked pensioners just another lie
Another lie

Angels are calling
Is this the end
We are elderly
No family or friends
Can’t pay for heating or any of our bills
While Rayner’s cheating, fingering the tills
In the tills.

Reeves

Unfair

Why am I like this?
Why do I fear?
My heart is screaming
It's all I can hear.
I just want love
I don't want money
I just want that feeling
That is sweeter than honey.

Where is my love?
Where is my peace?
Where is this knowledge
In which I can feast.
I wish I was happy
I wish she was here
To make me smile
To ease my

Poetry Soup Unfair Truth

I notice when I posted here a poem
The gate keeper let it be known
Only five it says at a time
But then others post a dime
Why is the rule for some
While others freely run
It’s kind of not fair
I paid dues to share
Will I get a refund?

Pit Bull

Tell me, dog with the big teeth,
What do you see past that muzzle of yours?
What do you hear through the whispers of those that go by?
You crave to feel human touch— 
Even the brush of fingertips against your ruined body
When someone walks past.
You long to be held like all the little dogs are:
Given fuss on

When life is unfair

"Fall not into despair but into God."
                Oliver Clement

When life is unfair
and troubles seize,
fall not into despair
but on your knees.

When people are too cruel
and cause you pain,
let prayers be your fuel,
in God remain!

When sorrows cause you tears,
in them don't drown!
Don't

Unfair

Dude…
Why? 
Why do you get to sleep, 
But I am ever awake? 
Why do you get to sleep
But I see every sunfall and moon break?
Why do you get to sleep
But I get to watch the stars singing? 
Why do you get to sleep 
But the sun has my head ringing? 

It’s been…who knows how long
Since

• Short Unfair Poems
• Famous Unfair Poems
• Best Unfair Poems
• Read Unfair Poems
• Long Unfair Poems
• Unfair Quotes