I was raised, like many others, on the wrong side of the tracks.
Parents poor, thru generations, hopelessly, broke their backs.
The holes in our walls, patched, with mud and road kill skins.
Our roof made up from cardboard boxes and corrugated tins.
We ate old, ice cold, cockroach stew, tho pigged out on toad.
The rusty bucket, we used out back, lovingly called commode.
As a young lad, I went bad, ran with wild gangs in the streets.
But soon, found myself running, with drunks, liars, and cheats.
In time, untrusted, got busted, cuz I was the one who went in.
The Judge, graveled, quickly gaveled, got five years in the pen.
In one cage, pent up rage, every day had to fight for my life.
Dreading showers, rival powers, and a toothbrush for a knife.
Made up my mind, when I got out, to fly straight as an arrow.
Like a fool, was hard to get by, on just the straight and narrow.
My life's been no picnic, it's true, but I won't sing a sad song.
Now busted again, back in the pen, I'm sure I probably belong.
Categories:
untrusted, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
When you entice me
stare at
steadfast
you will ponder
what I project
too many males
relentlessly own
or terrible pattern
Untrusted
stand tall
I agnize this feeling
Outside the rules
the truth is the last
your shine
caught me ignorant
too defenseless gaping
interrogate
if I quit
dedication.
Written: October 16, 2022
Categories:
untrusted, analogy, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Pandemic
Deaths gaining power on a mission to devour,
Negative encounters. Chrysanthemum flowers.
Deaths dangerous, not slowing but growing,
The momentums mind blowing,
constantly going.
Death is mysterious, hooded, cold blooded.
Untrusted, never obstructed, working uninterrupted.
Cloak of black, megalomaniac,
never looking back
insomniac.
Death sees themself brilliant, highly resilient,
Extremely consistent, noticed we are coexistent.
Works smart not hard, little regard
Constant bombard
Leaving us scarred.
Cruelly placing death in our breath
We assess this mess then rightly obsess.
Death made segregation and a desperate situation,
Threatened civilisation, created isolation,
Next up vaccination.
Categories:
untrusted, bereavement, confusion, death,
Form: Rhyme
Of what good is a lie, not much for sure.
While it may help a little, it destroys much more.
When you tell an untruth you tell more than a lie.
When the truth is found out as it will by and by,
You'll be known as a liar, untrusted, despised,
For you can't trust a liar, they're wolves in disguise.
They prey upon those who have done them no harm.
They lie and deceive to gain favor and charm,
Any and all who can do them some good.
They care not who they hurt as a true friend should;
So tell no untruths and carry no tales,
And you'll have friends aplenty and no cause to bewail.
Categories:
untrusted, life,
Form: Couplet
Hearts like ours will cross our silent yearning
and dance with lonely wishes and dreams
to find the longing realm of love
Like vagabonds, we will dance on empty streets
of false contentment and illusion...until
Love finds us worthy to nourish our souls
and welcome us
Guiding us into a luminous fervor
of rapidly pounding heartbeats
breaking free from bonds of tethered despair
as we cradle in our palms the burning hope of yearning
at long last found,
throbbing from each kiss melted by hunger and set loose
from the deepest cavern of starved emotion
kept for so long
hidden away from the untrusted words of false sweetness
where we guarded our heart's precious passions
that would have brought madness to our souls
if stolen or casually thrown away
Love found us worthy in its own time
and allowed us to share the beauty of our hearts
to become one heartbeat and yearn no more
12/18/20
Categories:
untrusted, desire, feelings, longing, true
Form: Free verse
You can be anyone you want
By your fingertips typin
All you are doing is
Sailing false advertisement
You can say the right things
Typing confidently to sway
The reader of your words
Mess with their minds you play
They fall for everything
You have written in response
Being dragged even deeper
Though that is what you want
Nasty trick you have done
You play with their emotions
You brainwash your readers
Into giving they're devotion
You have mesmerized them
With your fancy use of words
Leading them into a trap
The planned outcome of yours
But once they meet you in person
I hope they see you had lied
Not tricked by what they read
Transfixed on what you typed
It is easy to be anyone
When you hide behind a mask
Whether it's a computer screen
Or your false story past
Smart people will see through
Straight around your flawed plan
You did not count for them
To see that your a bad man
So keep doing what your doing
It will bite you in the end
You'll be left untrusted
Alone and with no friends
Written 3-13-19
Categories:
untrusted, allusion, betrayal, bullying, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
THE PROVIDENCE OF MANKIND
BEYOND THE NIGHTS THE DREAMS
OF PEOPLE WHO SEEK IN ADVENTURE
TO REDEFINE MINING OF ASTEROIDS
THEY SPOKE OF THE ONE:1?2 TON RATIO
WHERE ROCK LADEN WITH MAGNESITE TO
SOAK-UP CARBON MONOXIDE FROM
THE ATMOSHERE
SEQUESTERING STRATEGIES
THEY SOUGHT TO FIND TRUTH IN
POSITIONS WERE TRUTH
WAS FROM DATA THE UNTRUSTED
SCEINCE OF BEING FIRST
FROM SPACE THE ASTRONAUT SPOKE
AND SAID SUCH THEN MIGHT
VIOLATE THE TREATY CAUSING THOSE WHO
SIGNED THE TREATY TO
MAKE IT HARDER FOR US TO DO WHAT WE
NEED TO DO TO HAVETHESE THINGS DONE,
MEASURE PUT FOURTH AGAINST
SOMETHING THAT MIGHT
SAVE ALOT OF PEOPLE AND A WHOLE LOT
OF ANIMALS, EXSPECALLY THE
ONE'S WE EAT, THEY CALLED IT
CHEMICAL CAJOLING, USING MINERALS
TO SOAK-UP AIRBORN GAS
Categories:
untrusted, animal, business, clothes, earth,
Form: Ballad
No powerhouse or wondrous treasure house,
This would-be store with walls of muddied glass,
With recall indistinct and fading fast,
Untrusted, shifting, merciless impasse,
Where splintered life is mocked and alien hope
Seeks solace in soft-spoken thought, which caught
Upon the wayward breeze, a floating seed,
May yet to meaning and new life be brought
Within this fragile oft-times weeping place.
As night encroaches, yet again we pause,
Perhaps perceiving immortality,
But all that echoes is our self-applause.
Categories:
untrusted, confusion, depression, feelings, how
Form: Rhyme
As i Knew
The butterfly flew
Someone or something is new
On one's eye view
As the shimmering Light
On the darkest night
If you might
Nothing in sight
As even if you are
Sit as Tsar
Twinkling like a star
Waiting By the car
Aren't making someone a fool
Standing a deserted stool
Feeling unrealistic cool
Going to the invisible school
Give a staging call
Never felt a fall
Sitting in an ablaze hall
Never learned to stall
As one from afar carried a flame
I know it sounds lame
Like an unfailing claim
As impersonate time came
An accountable meet
With cold white feet
Eating some murky wheat
On a irregular seat
Learning as Brain go rot
No one can stop
Loving metallurgy a lot
As flower in a lousy pot
Time to end
Like an untrusted friend
As an eyesore letter send
Feeling like newly found trend
Categories:
untrusted, fun, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Being used…feeling helpless.
Being fake …feeling inadequate.
Being fat…feeling unmotivated.
Feeling letdown… being misunderstood.
Being taunted…feeling angry.
Being anorexic… feeling worthless.
Being gay…feeling emotions.
Feeling useless…being ignored.
Being alone…feeling neglected.
Being laughed at… feeling frustrated.
Being quiet…feeling small.
Feeling useless… being untrusted.
Being ugly…feeling separate.
Being abused…feeling challenged.
Being addicted…feeling worthless.
Feeling confused…being cold.
Being coloured…feeling different.
Being empty…feeling dejected.
Being unemotional…feeling hollow.
Feeling unfulfilled… being common.
Being sick…feeling magnified.
Being hungry….feeling urgent.
Categories:
untrusted, life, loneliness, love,
Form: Free verse
saddens me now that I lost your trust
How can we move on from here?
I tell you I love you
and u think its for another my dear
breaks my heart because I don't know how
to mend your heart from here
back and fourth you question my love
all because of miss trust has appeared
If I can rewind time and undo the hurtful things I've done
just to ease your mind from the hurt I've done..
I love u isn't enough
because there's no more trust
Can we move on?
because of the heavy damaged I've done
Are love will never be the same
maybe we should just go are separate ways...
With time are love can heal?
with a womb so deep the scar tissue will never fade away
just an ugly reminder of Untrusted broken love..
Categories:
untrusted, abuse, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
I sauntered out of an Irish Pub
Basted in booze and Irish smooze
The whiskeys sure didn’t cover the blues
Me, I knew this wasn’t good news
As a crossed the street
I met a bus, Full of nuns, all in a fuss
There was no contest, the bus sure won
I was run over and ready for a place with no sun
I arrived in hell, this surly no surprise
At least I was drunk, or so Satan surmised
He looked confused and asked who am I?
A Lawyer? a Dictator? or maybe I was both?
I apologized profusely for I surely was not
Any of those professions, I'm no in their lot
He asked if I was expecting 72 virgins?
As drunk as I was, I said I was not
He was angry and mad, there was doubt
What could the Devil do? He seemed in a stew
So he gave me a degree, in Law and Justice
So I could live in hell among all the others untrusted!
Notes: No Lawyers were hurt or maimed in the writing of this poem, and I apologize for that!
Categories:
untrusted, arabic, death, ireland,
Form: Light Verse
What senseless things we oft times say, when love has softened and caressed the way
Wise words sound as folly and falderal ,Gibberish N' hoopla,untrusted words spoken by trusted souls.
Not father nor brother not friend neither foe,can tell new lovers what the heart bestow.
Brains doth scatter when love is claimed,hot blood pumping throughout the veins.
Must young loves passion, peek then fall,or back them up against the wall?
Before they can clearly see,loves request not meant to be.?
When tried and proven,through test of time when all is said and all is done.
When beauties gone and nothings left, But patience love and diligence.
It is then and only then, that You can know when love has won.
So yes young lovers ears are deaf,the drum that beats within their chest
will in the end be judge to test.What is good and what is best,for now just
let it be-rest.
Soothsayer or see-ers can never tell; The fate of young lovers, when love goes stale.
Indifference now will destroy the marrow.If love ever turns to sorrow, Never again can theirs be bliss,
As long as the smallest spark still lit.Love won't give up and love won't quit.
Categories:
untrusted, emotions, love, wisdom, youth,
Form: Sonnet
Rolls of underappreciated,
despised,
untrusted,
unwanted globs of wasted space lies beneath
Rolls of ugliness,
sadness,
deceit,
tragedy,
nostalgic fluff swimming underneath these
Rolls of hate,
weakness,
abandonment,
scrutiny,
dignity left to die under all these
Rolls.
More to love, more to hate
Even more to underappreciate
Lie to my face, kick my backside
Take from me until I can’t hide
Categories:
untrusted, angst, dark, depression, introspection,
Form: Blank verse
What's love if not a thunder which burns you to the ground,
a roar of bear nowhere,
a taxi to the underground,
to the underworld,
a senseless sound which binds you,
binds you to trust the other one.
It is like a million rounds of bullets going through your chest
or like a feather falling from a cliff.
Oh, love - untrusted thing,
show me the smile to make you mine.
Ring the bell for my heart just now
and the sound shall live forever.
Speak to me of trees and bees
speak to me of strength and choice.
guide me on the way to Paradise,
place me in your garden of certainty,
and teach me how to arise,
take me to serenity...
Show me the smile to make you mine.
Categories:
untrusted, life, love, passion, peaceme,
Form: Epic
Related Poems