Bittersweet Poems
#bittersweet
Poetry about pleasurable life experiences which are also tinged with sadness. Bittersweet poems about life events which prompt a mixture of opposing feelings.
Sinking
Sinking
I feel like I am drowning
Sinking further every day
I want to reach my hand out
But it’s best to push away
I feel that if I hold you
I’ll drag you into the abyss
It’s dark here and it’s lonely
And for you, I don’t want this
You struggle as I let you go
You fight me to hold on
I don’t think that it’s meant for you
This place, you don’t belong
I’ve tried to share my pain with you
But it just brings you down
I’m sorry that you feel that way
But you’re why I’m still around
...
I feel like I am drowning
Sinking further every day
I want to reach my hand out
But it’s best to push away
I feel that if I hold you
I’ll drag you into the abyss
It’s dark here and it’s lonely
And for you, I don’t want this
You struggle as I let you go
You fight me to hold on
I don’t think that it’s meant for you
This place, you don’t belong
I’ve tried to share my pain with you
But it just brings you down
I’m sorry that you feel that way
But you’re why I’m still around
...
#bittersweet
#heartbroken
#ImSorry
#sadness
#secrets
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First Goodbye
I cried for you
The tears you couldn't cry, I shed.
I cried for you.
My heart cried out, but you withdrew.
I waited for your words, instead
Your love for me was left unsaid
I cried for you.
The tears you couldn't cry, I shed.
I cried for you.
My heart cried out, but you withdrew.
I waited for your words, instead
Your love for me was left unsaid
I cried for you.
#bittersweet
#heartbroken
#rejection #sadness
#rejection #sadness
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3x7
3x7
it’s 3am again and my eyes are nailed open
by my own insomniac dementia
I mime a cigarette to my lips
old habits still come to the fore
when you’ve lost everything except
except the ability
to awake and drag your carcass
to work
because you made a commitment
you made it and now you have to suffer
for the art
I pretend to remember the time my ancestors
had time to think
to breathe
to do anything more than stare
at blinking cursors and flashing lights
my ADHD loves that light
it’s...
it’s 3am again and my eyes are nailed open
by my own insomniac dementia
I mime a cigarette to my lips
old habits still come to the fore
when you’ve lost everything except
except the ability
to awake and drag your carcass
to work
because you made a commitment
you made it and now you have to suffer
for the art
I pretend to remember the time my ancestors
had time to think
to breathe
to do anything more than stare
at blinking cursors and flashing lights
my ADHD loves that light
it’s...
#bittersweet
#disappointment
#regret
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AND SO I WADE...
So very not sure where we stand
we must talk and agree on a plan
sure mistakes for sure were made
somewhere did your feelings fade
I'm no longer feeling so very sure
and how much longer I will endure
since often soliciting to ensure
for quite awhile I was your demour
Now its all quiet and you're hidden
are you no longer with me smitten
and our together has since ridden
finding our love no longer forgiven
And so I wade....
So is this the end of our past days
will we now just go different...
we must talk and agree on a plan
sure mistakes for sure were made
somewhere did your feelings fade
I'm no longer feeling so very sure
and how much longer I will endure
since often soliciting to ensure
for quite awhile I was your demour
Now its all quiet and you're hidden
are you no longer with me smitten
and our together has since ridden
finding our love no longer forgiven
And so I wade....
So is this the end of our past days
will we now just go different...
#bittersweet
#heartbroken
#hope
#love
#rejection
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BEING NAKED
Let me strip myself of all
pretense and inhibition,
unencumbered by the weight
of societal expectation.
I want to feel the sun as
it kisses upon my skin,
the wind caress my body,
without any shame of sin.
I crave the true freedom
of only being authentic,
unmasked, unguarded,
raw and unapologetic.
Over any type of protective
armour, choosing vulnerabilty,
any type of dishonesty or deceit
I will be choosing authenticity.
Shedding layers of conformity
and embracing my true essence ...
pretense and inhibition,
unencumbered by the weight
of societal expectation.
I want to feel the sun as
it kisses upon my skin,
the wind caress my body,
without any shame of sin.
I crave the true freedom
of only being authentic,
unmasked, unguarded,
raw and unapologetic.
Over any type of protective
armour, choosing vulnerabilty,
any type of dishonesty or deceit
I will be choosing authenticity.
Shedding layers of conformity
and embracing my true essence ...
#bittersweet
#gratitude
#love #respect
#love #respect
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GIFT of LOVE
Regardless of our faith, in Love we can believe,
For Love's within us all, if we choose to retrieve.
Should we choose to leave Love in a dormant state,
Then we invite into our heart the bitterness of hate.
For those who believe within the powers of Love,
Radiate and spread around all the beauty thereof.
Those who deny Love to flourish within their heart,
Spread misery around, since it's all they can impart.
We have all been blessed with the greatest Gift,
Though some choose to away from Love, drift. ...
For Love's within us all, if we choose to retrieve.
Should we choose to leave Love in a dormant state,
Then we invite into our heart the bitterness of hate.
For those who believe within the powers of Love,
Radiate and spread around all the beauty thereof.
Those who deny Love to flourish within their heart,
Spread misery around, since it's all they can impart.
We have all been blessed with the greatest Gift,
Though some choose to away from Love, drift. ...
#admiration
#bittersweet
#gratitude #hope
#gratitude #hope
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We're so Sorry
Oh, we're so sorry
but you can't say that
you're not allowed to think that
please don't try to
do that either
We're so sorry but just behave
we only want what's best for you
you're our cattle and we care
raise your children nice and strong
we're be along so enough
to harvest your fine crop
We're so sorry
your manacles chafe
maybe if we add more chains
the pain will go away
oh, you seem depressed
why do you think we made weed free
how about free valium on us
just go see your...
but you can't say that
you're not allowed to think that
please don't try to
do that either
We're so sorry but just behave
we only want what's best for you
you're our cattle and we care
raise your children nice and strong
we're be along so enough
to harvest your fine crop
We're so sorry
your manacles chafe
maybe if we add more chains
the pain will go away
oh, you seem depressed
why do you think we made weed free
how about free valium on us
just go see your...
#apathy
#bittersweet
#emptiness
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SWING
I had no idea how much you could miss someone. I mean from the morning until the dark. How you lost your happy place in the park someone took your swing and you're middle aged and acting out like you are aged five having a full-blown tantrum. Except a broken heart isn't playing games it feels like it is digging your own grave, but you are theoretically alive. Living on the outside but dying on the inside. It's hard to see the old routines when your heart high jacks your mind. You're a hostage and the taker but you can't find the negotiator.
#bittersweet
#emptiness
#grief
#heartbroken
#sadness
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The Scream
There’s a scream inside of each of us
You release it just one time
It comes out when your heart breaks
And this scream will break your mind
It comes from deep within you
Hidden deep inside your soul
It’s dormant while you smile
I hope this scream you’ll never know
The sound is dark and primal
It will shake the walls around you
It’s like you’ve met a demon
And the devil he has found you
And once this scream escapes you
Consider this your end
The scream it kills a part of you
You’ll never be the same...
You release it just one time
It comes out when your heart breaks
And this scream will break your mind
It comes from deep within you
Hidden deep inside your soul
It’s dormant while you smile
I hope this scream you’ll never know
The sound is dark and primal
It will shake the walls around you
It’s like you’ve met a demon
And the devil he has found you
And once this scream escapes you
Consider this your end
The scream it kills a part of you
You’ll never be the same...
#bittersweet
#dark
#grief
#heartbroken
#sadness
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rat catcher
Rat Catcher
I feel repulsed when he is near, I ought to have compassion
for this cripple, a twisted foot. an arm that does not
function as it should a beggar with scabby skin, eyes as black
as looking into the dark side of the wishing moon
this is not a man you can be kind to, the more you give him
the more he hats you and wishes you an early death.
His diversion is to follow funeral processions, but not into
the cemetery, no one wants him there
I have wondered why I dislike this cripple so much it must
be a memory of my childhood ...
I feel repulsed when he is near, I ought to have compassion
for this cripple, a twisted foot. an arm that does not
function as it should a beggar with scabby skin, eyes as black
as looking into the dark side of the wishing moon
this is not a man you can be kind to, the more you give him
the more he hats you and wishes you an early death.
His diversion is to follow funeral processions, but not into
the cemetery, no one wants him there
I have wondered why I dislike this cripple so much it must
be a memory of my childhood ...
#anger
#anxiety
#apathy
#bittersweet
#boredom
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THE LONELY ONE
The lonely person often walks unnoticed
with unsteady step and eyes unfocused,
failing to keep pace within the crowd.
An approach of reluctance to everything,
like a crutch under the arm that stings,
maintaining balance amidst turbulence.
Seeing, yet, did not recognize nor care,
as if that person was as normal as you,
beneath the shrouded cloak they wear.
Loneliness can feed on pure isolation,
depression its friend, little is noticed,
there's signals, a lack of communication.
Loneliness has its very own...
with unsteady step and eyes unfocused,
failing to keep pace within the crowd.
An approach of reluctance to everything,
like a crutch under the arm that stings,
maintaining balance amidst turbulence.
Seeing, yet, did not recognize nor care,
as if that person was as normal as you,
beneath the shrouded cloak they wear.
Loneliness can feed on pure isolation,
depression its friend, little is noticed,
there's signals, a lack of communication.
Loneliness has its very own...
#bittersweet
#emptiness
#hope
#loneliness
#rejection
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Hiding My Pain
Hiding My Pain
I thought that I could let it go
This pain I have inside
I thought I could release it all
Relief to a crazed mind
I thought in time it’d go away
Just fade like memories
This pain is changing who I am
Not who I used to be
I miss when smiles came with ease
Cause now they just feel forced
I miss the way I loved freely
To trust is now a curse
I feel that I am juggling me
The old one with the new
Pretending that I am okay
This lie is now my truth
The secrets they keep...
I thought that I could let it go
This pain I have inside
I thought I could release it all
Relief to a crazed mind
I thought in time it’d go away
Just fade like memories
This pain is changing who I am
Not who I used to be
I miss when smiles came with ease
Cause now they just feel forced
I miss the way I loved freely
To trust is now a curse
I feel that I am juggling me
The old one with the new
Pretending that I am okay
This lie is now my truth
The secrets they keep...
#bittersweet
#confusion
#dark
#heartbroken
#sadness
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