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PoetryOnPurpose
PoetryOnPurpose
Betrayal of friends
Betrayed
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I thought my secrets are safe with you.
I trust that you understood my point of view.
I believed that despite the difference in opinion,
You and I had respected each others' preference.
When does good intentions supercede the weigh of a promise?
How can you measure me against others?
I guess, it's me who was wrong,
When I refused to accept that friendship for you have levels.
I got it! The message, loud and clear.
It's ok for you to drop me in favor of all the others.
It's just hurtful, that you think that it's ok, that I would be ok!
After you dishonor a promise for your own brand of good intention.
I realize now, how selfish you are,
How petty and how insensitive.
You call my cause bullshits
Then greet me good morning the next day?
I know now....
You never really see me as your true friend.
To be betrayed...
It hurts like shit!
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I thought my secrets are safe with you.
I trust that you understood my point of view.
I believed that despite the difference in opinion,
You and I had respected each others' preference.
When does good intentions supercede the weigh of a promise?
How can you measure me against others?
I guess, it's me who was wrong,
When I refused to accept that friendship for you have levels.
I got it! The message, loud and clear.
It's ok for you to drop me in favor of all the others.
It's just hurtful, that you think that it's ok, that I would be ok!
After you dishonor a promise for your own brand of good intention.
I realize now, how selfish you are,
How petty and how insensitive.
You call my cause bullshits
Then greet me good morning the next day?
I know now....
You never really see me as your true friend.
To be betrayed...
It hurts like shit!
Written by OxyMoronicMe
(G.L.)
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Anonymous
Et Tu, Janus?
Sweet smiles from you to me
What did I do to deserve your time?
Conversations aplenty between us both
The time spent is surely sublime
Words you use to dazzle me with
Stories you tell to enthral me
Your starring role in the play of life
Always to be entrenched with espirit
The way you speak of empowerment
With such devotion
But behind closed doors
You dismantle such notions
You play your character
With the epitome of grace
But the depth of your iniquity
Makes it hard for me to embrace
Time to ponder on what is the truth
As false perception can be most heinous
Making it the more hard for me to utter
These three words to you: "Et Tu, Janus?"
Written by neef03
Poem originally published on March 20, 2015
Sweet smiles from you to me
What did I do to deserve your time?
Conversations aplenty between us both
The time spent is surely sublime
Words you use to dazzle me with
Stories you tell to enthral me
Your starring role in the play of life
Always to be entrenched with espirit
The way you speak of empowerment
With such devotion
But behind closed doors
You dismantle such notions
You play your character
With the epitome of grace
But the depth of your iniquity
Makes it hard for me to embrace
Time to ponder on what is the truth
As false perception can be most heinous
Making it the more hard for me to utter
These three words to you: "Et Tu, Janus?"
Written by neef03
Poem originally published on March 20, 2015
Acceptance
Acceptance she says is all she has
as her beloved dance with his love
who still wears the ring
he gave her long ago
Acceptance that her beloved
Lives and loves his bride
under the roof they dwell
together with signed papers
She walks around with downcast eyes
Until he rings her bell
She wakes up from her stupor
Blooms and brightens
As he encircles her in his arms
Is this acceptance, love
Is it enslavement then, this love
Or a vice like grip upon her soul
She wakes up to his smell
On the blanket and the pillow
Sighs and closes her eyes
Hugs the remnants of his presence
Folds again within herself
Put away the stars in her eyes
Until next he comes by
And wakes her up again
Acceptance
That’s what she has.
as her beloved dance with his love
who still wears the ring
he gave her long ago
Acceptance that her beloved
Lives and loves his bride
under the roof they dwell
together with signed papers
She walks around with downcast eyes
Until he rings her bell
She wakes up from her stupor
Blooms and brightens
As he encircles her in his arms
Is this acceptance, love
Is it enslavement then, this love
Or a vice like grip upon her soul
She wakes up to his smell
On the blanket and the pillow
Sighs and closes her eyes
Hugs the remnants of his presence
Folds again within herself
Put away the stars in her eyes
Until next he comes by
And wakes her up again
Acceptance
That’s what she has.
Written by Grace
(IDryad)
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Hurt
He wore his heart on sleeve
Its frantic tick often barely audible
That tempestuous day
Its beat thundered in my head
His tears on the verge of spill
Made his eyes flash
With lightning strike
Streaking raw ache through his baby blues
Set between furrowed brow
His disquietude unnerved me
Perturbation balled his normally passive fists
He would acquiesce to my mood most days
This day....he had shouted at me for the first time
It shocked more than hurt
As he spit at me words
I knew he did not mean
I reached for his hand
He recoiled from me
My friend was wandering Via Dolorosa
And his cross was too heavy to carry alone
His heart in New Jerusalem was shattering
He lay in pieces of his whole
And all the kings horses
And all the kings men
Could not put him back together again
My throat felt tight as he left
The trepid swallow suffocated my words
I did not beg him to please stay
Or tell him how i ached seeing him hurt that way
Those were selfish days
Disseminating into years of my self imposed perdition
I had my first and foremost priority
To sterilize my own desolate being
Until comfortably numb
So I poured myself an unloving cup
The loud drum of his heart still pounding in my head
And with shaking hand lifted it up
My lip now damp with somnolence
I left the look in my friends eyes behind
I vaguely remember a muffled voice calling my name through the phone
Before fading to black
I woke in haze with sweaty cheek on table
To a knocking on my front door
I stumbled with grave awakening
Intuition running its claws down my back
Opened the door to the face of sorrow
My heart breaking, as i flung my arms around my best friends mothers neck
He wore his heart on sleeve
Its frantic tick often barely audible
That tempestuous day
Its beat thundered in my head
His tears on the verge of spill
Made his eyes flash
With lightning strike
Streaking raw ache through his baby blues
Set between furrowed brow
His disquietude unnerved me
Perturbation balled his normally passive fists
He would acquiesce to my mood most days
This day....he had shouted at me for the first time
It shocked more than hurt
As he spit at me words
I knew he did not mean
I reached for his hand
He recoiled from me
My friend was wandering Via Dolorosa
And his cross was too heavy to carry alone
His heart in New Jerusalem was shattering
He lay in pieces of his whole
And all the kings horses
And all the kings men
Could not put him back together again
My throat felt tight as he left
The trepid swallow suffocated my words
I did not beg him to please stay
Or tell him how i ached seeing him hurt that way
Those were selfish days
Disseminating into years of my self imposed perdition
I had my first and foremost priority
To sterilize my own desolate being
Until comfortably numb
So I poured myself an unloving cup
The loud drum of his heart still pounding in my head
And with shaking hand lifted it up
My lip now damp with somnolence
I left the look in my friends eyes behind
I vaguely remember a muffled voice calling my name through the phone
Before fading to black
I woke in haze with sweaty cheek on table
To a knocking on my front door
I stumbled with grave awakening
Intuition running its claws down my back
Opened the door to the face of sorrow
My heart breaking, as i flung my arms around my best friends mothers neck
Broken Friendship
Behind the good face and heart is someone
Who has stabbed me again so many times,
I would have never thought to ever run
Away from the one committing crimes
Against me. I would have never thought
That behind the person who climbs
Mountains would have been caught
In lies and deceit. Because of that you
Have lost my trust and I boycott
Any sort of friendship. Darling, to
Trust you after the betrayal and
Broken promise is like the final screw.
Who has stabbed me again so many times,
I would have never thought to ever run
Away from the one committing crimes
Against me. I would have never thought
That behind the person who climbs
Mountains would have been caught
In lies and deceit. Because of that you
Have lost my trust and I boycott
Any sort of friendship. Darling, to
Trust you after the betrayal and
Broken promise is like the final screw.
Written by eswaller
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Stabbed In The Back
You were just like a brother
You were more than a friend
Closer to me than any other
Now here is where it ends
You killed your own friend
You watched me bleed
Now it's too late to amend
And turn away from your greed
Look how far we've come together
Look how close we've been
Instead of protecting me you rather
Make me wail and scream
While i was running to you for solace
You're the one stabbing me
Your hug and comfort were but pretence
And there I was ignorantly
Sharing my travails with the devil
That played the angel's role
I've been through too many ugly levels
But managed to preserve my soul
Thus I won't pay evil for evil
But I'm surely letting go
I've learnt my lessons about people
I just want you to know
That you have ruined me from trusting ever
Your betrayal cut me deep
It's an incidence I will forget never
A memory I will always keep
You were just like a brother
You were more than a friend
Closer to me than any other
Now here is where it ends
You killed your own friend
You watched me bleed
Now it's too late to amend
And turn away from your greed
Look how far we've come together
Look how close we've been
Instead of protecting me you rather
Make me wail and scream
While i was running to you for solace
You're the one stabbing me
Your hug and comfort were but pretence
And there I was ignorantly
Sharing my travails with the devil
That played the angel's role
I've been through too many ugly levels
But managed to preserve my soul
Thus I won't pay evil for evil
But I'm surely letting go
I've learnt my lessons about people
I just want you to know
That you have ruined me from trusting ever
Your betrayal cut me deep
It's an incidence I will forget never
A memory I will always keep
PENULTIMATE : AN EVENING DEPARTURE
As a quiescent desire, cloaked
She ran fingers across her hope
And dead that day, her ambition
Her penultimate shadow
Disappears underneath the sheets
Only to be reborn in sleep
Those fields in which she slumbered
'Neath the stars her pain absolved
Yet her forehead, ever sultry
Remembers the fever
A single tear
Like the last rain before Winter
Contours her cheekbone
She cannot tell if it froze
She longed for him
To embrace her once more
But through bars of doubt
Impossible
The candle flickers, as if breath tamed it
She knew he was there, complacent
Letting demons in
He tried, like wind against rock
But his passion waned with the departing moon
He wondered
If his emotions died
And
After the eternity of that single second
He lost interest
And left the field
And the moon falls quicker than before
As if shying away from the reflected light
To make room for eyes that loathe it
She hungers for that smell
That which never left her home
So she decides to get out of the cold
He is alive, but will always be a ghost
And the memory is left only with her
The one who, perhaps, cared the most
Though, despite this
His fondness of the dark
Was to accompany the mirror
Written by UbiquitousVoid
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"Traitor in Our Midst"
Inexorably I had prepared for our bond
Risked everything, I waited patiently
Years I dreamed my waking days away
For the dreams to come only while sleeping
Twenty years is only a marker in time
Five more a friendship is marked for death
Nearly two more than life had blessed you with
There was not enough in all the universe
How can such bright sunlight leave no shadows?
So blinded was eye that I could not see
Hidden in plain sight on a plane over my head
When you slipped behind the shadow he did not leave
Knowing twenty winters I endured cast away
Knowing my island charts were torn in a storm
Knowing I would not be home on Christmas day
Knowiing you would be, the traitors knife sunk in
-jj johnson-
No Stamped Property
Friends they'll support right?
Everyone wants something someone has.
No matter how close it has to be theirs.
They see happiness but still...
Loud vocalist in expressing they must have what's yours.
Share with all.
Share with all.
Plead all of innocence they'll swear on nothing to promise.
Getting old is moving on from a childhood of promising dreams.
Raised by executioners expected to carry out good deeds.
How fast can we move from what we have.
In the moment slowing down to reach for at least one goal to conquer.
Friends they'll support right?
Everyone wants something someone has.
No matter how close it has to be theirs.
They see happiness but still...
Loud vocalist in expressing they must have what's yours.
Share with all.
Share with all.
Plead all of innocence they'll swear on nothing to promise.
Getting old is moving on from a childhood of promising dreams.
Raised by executioners expected to carry out good deeds.
How fast can we move from what we have.
In the moment slowing down to reach for at least one goal to conquer.
Tread Lightly
When I say, ici entre nous,
I really mean don’t tell anyone else,
What I confide in you should be just between us two.
When I say, aqui entre nos.
I really mean this is very intimate,
What I entrust in you should be kept confidential,
When I say, just between us,
I really mean that I trust you as my friend,
What I share with you is to strengthen our bond.
But when I hear the exact same words
From a totally different source,
Some two hundred fucking miles away,
And through the last channel I wanted,
Not only is it a betrayal my friend,
But going forward,
I will tread lightly around you,
From far away,
For the rest of my life
With what I have to say.
When I say, ici entre nous,
I really mean don’t tell anyone else,
What I confide in you should be just between us two.
When I say, aqui entre nos.
I really mean this is very intimate,
What I entrust in you should be kept confidential,
When I say, just between us,
I really mean that I trust you as my friend,
What I share with you is to strengthen our bond.
But when I hear the exact same words
From a totally different source,
Some two hundred fucking miles away,
And through the last channel I wanted,
Not only is it a betrayal my friend,
But going forward,
I will tread lightly around you,
From far away,
For the rest of my life
With what I have to say.
Betrayal
My Father once told me
the biggest lesson in Life
is not to betray yourself
in the midst of betrayal
For the longest time
I wasn't sure what he meant;
despite asking
he wouldn't provide examples
Years past, and one day
In high school a "friend"
betrayed a confidence;
she violated my trust-
I struck back, spilled my guts;
revealed everything
she'd confided in me with
I thought, "All's fair in revenge!"
But I was wrong, and then some
In growth we're given the syllabus
before the test to see if we've learned;
it will determine if we repeat the class
Sometimes years fan
between incidences
others, weeks or minutes
It's always when we think
we've risen above, that the pop quiz
will hit the desk
at any given hour of the day
I'll tell you what I do know now:
I hadn't betrayed my "friend"
I'd betrayed myself
It took one time
waking up with the enemy
to realize that hard truth
So, continue to stab me with your
sharpest knife of vitriolic gossip
behind my back-I learned young
what my Father meant;
And while I've slipped, I'll be damned
if I repeat that class;
Your secrets are safe
with me-and we both know
you have plenty
~
the biggest lesson in Life
is not to betray yourself
in the midst of betrayal
For the longest time
I wasn't sure what he meant;
despite asking
he wouldn't provide examples
Years past, and one day
In high school a "friend"
betrayed a confidence;
she violated my trust-
I struck back, spilled my guts;
revealed everything
she'd confided in me with
I thought, "All's fair in revenge!"
But I was wrong, and then some
In growth we're given the syllabus
before the test to see if we've learned;
it will determine if we repeat the class
Sometimes years fan
between incidences
others, weeks or minutes
It's always when we think
we've risen above, that the pop quiz
will hit the desk
at any given hour of the day
I'll tell you what I do know now:
I hadn't betrayed my "friend"
I'd betrayed myself
It took one time
waking up with the enemy
to realize that hard truth
So, continue to stab me with your
sharpest knife of vitriolic gossip
behind my back-I learned young
what my Father meant;
And while I've slipped, I'll be damned
if I repeat that class;
Your secrets are safe
with me-and we both know
you have plenty
~
Written by Ahavati
(Tams)
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Midnight's Betrayal
When I married
I married alone
Not with a concubine
attached to his throne
You both were drowned
in each other's love
it was around midnight
he didn't even wear a glove
So, now you've stolen a page
one from my life's book
you've tasted my honeymoon
now you are a tasteless crook
This page has been burned
torched into flames
sometimes I can still smell the stench
from this past life remains
He has been dethroned
for his adulterous portrayal
and you've lost an eternal friendship
for your part in this heartless betrayal
I married alone
Not with a concubine
attached to his throne
You both were drowned
in each other's love
it was around midnight
he didn't even wear a glove
So, now you've stolen a page
one from my life's book
you've tasted my honeymoon
now you are a tasteless crook
This page has been burned
torched into flames
sometimes I can still smell the stench
from this past life remains
He has been dethroned
for his adulterous portrayal
and you've lost an eternal friendship
for your part in this heartless betrayal
Written by PoetryOnPurpose
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