Submissions by poetOftragedy
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I'm a door which ever way you open it will always lead you outside
Man don't die
Hold It In
What Ever THe Pain
I'll SWallow It
SHow No Tears
EVeryOne Knows
Men Don't CRy
shoulder The Blame
KEep Playing THe Game
When IT Gets Scary
I'll SHow No Fear
WHen They Come Around
PRetend To Be Happy
Because EVeryone Knows
Men Don't CRy
WHen It Gets Dark
SAve The Day
IF It Hurts
IGnore The Pain
When It's HEavy
CArry The Weight
If YoU Break,
SMile And Be On Your MERry Way
IN The End Everyone KNows
A Real Men Don't Cry
THey Just Die Inside
What Ever THe Pain
I'll SWallow It
SHow No Tears
EVeryOne Knows
Men Don't CRy
shoulder The Blame
KEep Playing THe Game
When IT Gets Scary
I'll SHow No Fear
WHen They Come Around
PRetend To Be Happy
Because EVeryone Knows
Men Don't CRy
WHen It Gets Dark
SAve The Day
IF It Hurts
IGnore The Pain
When It's HEavy
CArry The Weight
If YoU Break,
SMile And Be On Your MERry Way
IN The End Everyone KNows
A Real Men Don't Cry
THey Just Die Inside
#men
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife #philosophical
#TruthOfLife #philosophical
339 reads
4 Comments
Do we deserve to die?
Are we really a specie that deserves to die?
Haven't we done enough to save mankind?
Yes there's error in our ways.
Perfection eludes us.
Yet we made the best with our flaws.
There's beauty when we come together.
In times of need we are one.
We are nations, we're clans.
In times of need black and white is tossed aside.
There's error in our ways.
Yet we evolve,
We fight against the norms of society.
We fight against femicide and gender based violence.
We are trying to save the earth, trying to save...
Haven't we done enough to save mankind?
Yes there's error in our ways.
Perfection eludes us.
Yet we made the best with our flaws.
There's beauty when we come together.
In times of need we are one.
We are nations, we're clans.
In times of need black and white is tossed aside.
There's error in our ways.
Yet we evolve,
We fight against the norms of society.
We fight against femicide and gender based violence.
We are trying to save the earth, trying to save...
#TruthOfLife
#humankind
#evolution
333 reads
4 Comments
***
You know my name,
loved my face.
You know my heart and taught it love.
You saw my pain and all my shame,
Yet you gave me a home in your heart I had a place.
I'm insane,
but to you we all the same.
When the world gave up on me,
You never changed.
Tell them I've never been happy like I'm with you.
For many years I hope we remain this way.
Even if our bones turn to dust
May this warmth of friendship remain this way.
Lets show the world true love never dies.
loved my face.
You know my heart and taught it love.
You saw my pain and all my shame,
Yet you gave me a home in your heart I had a place.
I'm insane,
but to you we all the same.
When the world gave up on me,
You never changed.
Tell them I've never been happy like I'm with you.
For many years I hope we remain this way.
Even if our bones turn to dust
May this warmth of friendship remain this way.
Lets show the world true love never dies.
#love
#friendship
#support #admiration
#support #admiration
423 reads
7 Comments
Dear unborn
Dear unborn.
I wish this letter was about expectations,
About you being born into this world.
Your first steps,
First words,
And all the things you would discover in this world.
I wish this letter was about your chance at life,
A possibility of a happy family,
And all memories of a child and father.
But this letter is about my selfish reasons,
My lack of responsibility,
My lack of being a man.
I thought I was saving you from this world.
I was saving you from being born into starvation,
A life I clearly...
I wish this letter was about expectations,
About you being born into this world.
Your first steps,
First words,
And all the things you would discover in this world.
I wish this letter was about your chance at life,
A possibility of a happy family,
And all memories of a child and father.
But this letter is about my selfish reasons,
My lack of responsibility,
My lack of being a man.
I thought I was saving you from this world.
I was saving you from being born into starvation,
A life I clearly...
#TruthOfLife
#SelfReflection
#greed
#despair
#choices
412 reads
2 Comments
In the end
There's beauty in the death of a life that's fully lived
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In the end
I'll walk through hell with a smile.
For I lived my life,
Took my chances
And never waved the white flag.
When deep in the fire
I'll look the devil right into the eye
For even when my life flashed before my eyes
I was never afraid to die.
In the short time I was spared.
I loved, I was loved in turn.
I gave, I was given in turn.
Took what I could
And sold what I couldn't.
Cherished the...
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In the end
I'll walk through hell with a smile.
For I lived my life,
Took my chances
And never waved the white flag.
When deep in the fire
I'll look the devil right into the eye
For even when my life flashed before my eyes
I was never afraid to die.
In the short time I was spared.
I loved, I was loved in turn.
I gave, I was given in turn.
Took what I could
And sold what I couldn't.
Cherished the...
#courage
#power
#motivational #inspirational
#motivational #inspirational
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0 Comments
Exposed heart III the last chapter
moving on begins with letting go of the past
this is my final Exposed heart
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For the first time I'm going home
Feeling like a place i belong.
Took me 24 years for my mom
To tell me I'm the best mistake she ever made.
Time and time again i was made to remember the past,
Made to suffer for the mistakes of a man i never even knew.
A hundred times,
I've been told how
If i had been left in a bin like she first had thought,
Life would have been much...
this is my final Exposed heart
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For the first time I'm going home
Feeling like a place i belong.
Took me 24 years for my mom
To tell me I'm the best mistake she ever made.
Time and time again i was made to remember the past,
Made to suffer for the mistakes of a man i never even knew.
A hundred times,
I've been told how
If i had been left in a bin like she first had thought,
Life would have been much...
#hope
#LifeStruggles
#inspirational
#TruthOfLife
#acceptance
440 reads
4 Comments
Exposed heart II
If you're looking for a warm and comforting poem please look away,
There's nothing here but pain misery and dismay...
This is the second of the trilogy of the exposed heart of Poetoftragedy
Exposed heart II
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What have i done to you?
Poverty who set you against me?
Ever since i was born you the only thing I've known
I grew up naked without a father,
The only thing i had on me
was only enough to cover my private parts,
Poverty what did i do...
There's nothing here but pain misery and dismay...
This is the second of the trilogy of the exposed heart of Poetoftragedy
Exposed heart II
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What have i done to you?
Poverty who set you against me?
Ever since i was born you the only thing I've known
I grew up naked without a father,
The only thing i had on me
was only enough to cover my private parts,
Poverty what did i do...
#sadness
#LifeStruggles
#suffering #poverty
#suffering #poverty
410 reads
2 Comments
Exposed heart I
If you're looking for a warm and comforting poem please look away,
There's nothing here but pain misery and dismay...
This is the first of the trilogy of the exposed heart of Poetoftragedy
Exposed heart
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Sitting here and I'm looking in your eyes,
I wish I could cry.
We both reminiscing about our past,
The gloves are off,
We both speaking with exposed hearts,
Regrets and what if's are on the mark.
I think we both can't forgive time
It's passing by was it's only crime.
If I could turn it back even for...
There's nothing here but pain misery and dismay...
This is the first of the trilogy of the exposed heart of Poetoftragedy
Exposed heart
__________________
Sitting here and I'm looking in your eyes,
I wish I could cry.
We both reminiscing about our past,
The gloves are off,
We both speaking with exposed hearts,
Regrets and what if's are on the mark.
I think we both can't forgive time
It's passing by was it's only crime.
If I could turn it back even for...
#grief
#death
#memories
#UnrequitedLove
#hurt
408 reads
5 Comments
Forgotten warrior: diary of a veteran
Forgotten warrior: diary of a veteran
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I'm just a dog to be buried with its fur
A good for nothing person on the face of the Earth
This world won't cry for my absence
It has forgotten me long ago.
Fate has it every living thing dies alone.
I'll never know a heart or a place to call home.
Nowhere to go, no place to call my home.
My only friend is the man on the moon
And sometimes he goes away too.
No cat, no dog to call my own.
I'm done with chasing dreams of hope.
All...
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I'm just a dog to be buried with its fur
A good for nothing person on the face of the Earth
This world won't cry for my absence
It has forgotten me long ago.
Fate has it every living thing dies alone.
I'll never know a heart or a place to call home.
Nowhere to go, no place to call my home.
My only friend is the man on the moon
And sometimes he goes away too.
No cat, no dog to call my own.
I'm done with chasing dreams of hope.
All...
#soldiers
#TruthOfLife
#despair
320 reads
8 Comments
How much can you hurt me before I learn not to forgive you?
How much can you hurt me before I learn not to forgive you?
When will this hope that one day you'll change be distinguished?
I wait for you,
Even though I know the outcome yet I still wait for you..
Hoping and praying,
That one day you'll change and better yourself..
It's the last time I tell myself,
Yet I'm the one that who always rushes to your aid.
I'd rather stop your bleeding instead of stoping mine..
Hoping and wishing one day you'll treat me the same.
When will I ever learn to leave you behind?
Every time I scream I'm...
When will this hope that one day you'll change be distinguished?
I wait for you,
Even though I know the outcome yet I still wait for you..
Hoping and praying,
That one day you'll change and better yourself..
It's the last time I tell myself,
Yet I'm the one that who always rushes to your aid.
I'd rather stop your bleeding instead of stoping mine..
Hoping and wishing one day you'll treat me the same.
When will I ever learn to leave you behind?
Every time I scream I'm...
#LifeStruggles
#UnrequitedLove
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
463 reads
14 Comments
Not a sanctuary, but another grave
Not a sanctuary, but another grave[
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I saw your cry for help
But it got lost in the long list of poems,
I was just too happy to comment,
I couldn't see how you truly felt.
Till there was nothing left,
I couldn't lend a hand.
In your pen you told me you were drowning.
A sincere cry for help
I thought it was just words that fell off your hand
A badly written poem which wasn't one of your best
But I didn't see you meant by what you said
I said you'll be okay
I never realized you...
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I saw your cry for help
But it got lost in the long list of poems,
I was just too happy to comment,
I couldn't see how you truly felt.
Till there was nothing left,
I couldn't lend a hand.
In your pen you told me you were drowning.
A sincere cry for help
I thought it was just words that fell off your hand
A badly written poem which wasn't one of your best
But I didn't see you meant by what you said
I said you'll be okay
I never realized you...
#LifeStruggles
#suicide
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeCycle
#suffering
367 reads
6 Comments
Dear mom
Dear Mom,
I need to tell you about this women I've found.
She's beautiful, easy going.
She's calm, thoughtful and considerate.
Her smile can lights up they sky.
Her words brings fantasies to life.
She hardly ever ask for much.
She gives her time and knows what exactly to say.
Dear Mum,
I need to tell you about this women I've found.
She's quick to forgive
Never dwells on my mistakes.
She takes what she gets and turns it to stars
There's love In her touch,
Truth In her tongue,
She's everything you can ever dream...
I need to tell you about this women I've found.
She's beautiful, easy going.
She's calm, thoughtful and considerate.
Her smile can lights up they sky.
Her words brings fantasies to life.
She hardly ever ask for much.
She gives her time and knows what exactly to say.
Dear Mum,
I need to tell you about this women I've found.
She's quick to forgive
Never dwells on my mistakes.
She takes what she gets and turns it to stars
There's love In her touch,
Truth In her tongue,
She's everything you can ever dream...
#love
#betrayal
549 reads
16 Comments
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