Sappho
Poem Published
5th Feb 2025 7:56am
5th Feb 2025 7:56am
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
Eagerly you build your own bird cage
Accusements, anger and revenge
Are the bars surrounding you
Like in a never-ending loop
You replay hurtful experiences
In front of your inner eye
Forgive!
Forgive freely!
Forgive others!
Forgive yourself!
Your plumage has turned pale
Your song doesn't sound happy anymore
Now is the time to let go of
Resentments, trouble and despair
All the self-destructive feelings
You have carried far too long
Forgive! ...
Eagerly you build your own bird cage
Accusements, anger and revenge
Are the bars surrounding you
Like in a never-ending loop
You replay hurtful experiences
In front of your inner eye
Forgive!
Forgive freely!
Forgive others!
Forgive yourself!
Your plumage has turned pale
Your song doesn't sound happy anymore
Now is the time to let go of
Resentments, trouble and despair
All the self-destructive feelings
You have carried far too long
Forgive! ...
#forgiveness
94 reads
2 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
6th May 2024 8:15am
6th May 2024 8:15am
Caveats
It seems I find them wherever I go
always interrupting the flow
of both thought and deed
of both want and need
But such is the way of things
flying upon wounded wings
hoping to finally atone
only to fall like some tossed stone
For all of these dire benedictions
are just more random constrictions
on the way that I choose to live
on how much slack I have to give
Adding to the weight of these days
where I drown in my own malaise
hardly able to carry on
when faced with another dawn ...
always interrupting the flow
of both thought and deed
of both want and need
But such is the way of things
flying upon wounded wings
hoping to finally atone
only to fall like some tossed stone
For all of these dire benedictions
are just more random constrictions
on the way that I choose to live
on how much slack I have to give
Adding to the weight of these days
where I drown in my own malaise
hardly able to carry on
when faced with another dawn ...
#confessional
#forgiveness
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#WritingPoetry
17 reads
4 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
6th May 2024 8:15am
6th May 2024 8:15am
Caveats
It seems I find them wherever I go
always interrupting the flow
of both thought and deed
of both want and need
But such is the way of things
flying upon wounded wings
hoping to finally atone
only to fall like some tossed stone
For all of these dire benedictions
are just more random constrictions
on the way that I choose to live
on how much slack I have to give
Adding to the weight of these days
where I drown in my own malaise
hardly able to carry on
when faced with another dawn ...
always interrupting the flow
of both thought and deed
of both want and need
But such is the way of things
flying upon wounded wings
hoping to finally atone
only to fall like some tossed stone
For all of these dire benedictions
are just more random constrictions
on the way that I choose to live
on how much slack I have to give
Adding to the weight of these days
where I drown in my own malaise
hardly able to carry on
when faced with another dawn ...
#confessional
#forgiveness
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#WritingPoetry
17 reads
4 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
6th May 2024 8:15am
6th May 2024 8:15am
Caveats
It seems I find them wherever I go
always interrupting the flow
of both thought and deed
of both want and need
But such is the way of things
flying upon wounded wings
hoping to finally atone
only to fall like some tossed stone
For all of these dire benedictions
are just more random constrictions
on the way that I choose to live
on how much slack I have to give
Adding to the weight of these days
where I drown in my own malaise
hardly able to carry on
when faced with another dawn ...
always interrupting the flow
of both thought and deed
of both want and need
But such is the way of things
flying upon wounded wings
hoping to finally atone
only to fall like some tossed stone
For all of these dire benedictions
are just more random constrictions
on the way that I choose to live
on how much slack I have to give
Adding to the weight of these days
where I drown in my own malaise
hardly able to carry on
when faced with another dawn ...
#confessional
#forgiveness
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#WritingPoetry
17 reads
4 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
6th May 2024 8:15am
6th May 2024 8:15am
Caveats
It seems I find them wherever I go
always interrupting the flow
of both thought and deed
of both want and need
But such is the way of things
flying upon wounded wings
hoping to finally atone
only to fall like some tossed stone
For all of these dire benedictions
are just more random constrictions
on the way that I choose to live
on how much slack I have to give
Adding to the weight of these days
where I drown in my own malaise
hardly able to carry on
when faced with another dawn ...
always interrupting the flow
of both thought and deed
of both want and need
But such is the way of things
flying upon wounded wings
hoping to finally atone
only to fall like some tossed stone
For all of these dire benedictions
are just more random constrictions
on the way that I choose to live
on how much slack I have to give
Adding to the weight of these days
where I drown in my own malaise
hardly able to carry on
when faced with another dawn ...
#confessional
#forgiveness
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#WritingPoetry
17 reads
4 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
6th May 2024 8:15am
6th May 2024 8:15am
Caveats
It seems I find them wherever I go
always interrupting the flow
of both thought and deed
of both want and need
But such is the way of things
flying upon wounded wings
hoping to finally atone
only to fall like some tossed stone
For all of these dire benedictions
are just more random constrictions
on the way that I choose to live
on how much slack I have to give
Adding to the weight of these days
where I drown in my own malaise
hardly able to carry on
when faced with another dawn ...
always interrupting the flow
of both thought and deed
of both want and need
But such is the way of things
flying upon wounded wings
hoping to finally atone
only to fall like some tossed stone
For all of these dire benedictions
are just more random constrictions
on the way that I choose to live
on how much slack I have to give
Adding to the weight of these days
where I drown in my own malaise
hardly able to carry on
when faced with another dawn ...
#confessional
#forgiveness
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#WritingPoetry
17 reads
4 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
17th Mar 2025 9:25pm
17th Mar 2025 9:25pm
Beheaded Poem
I beheaded a poem
For you... my rhyme
I cleaned its insides
I took off its eyes
For not having to bear
The humidity of the tears
I blew the letters up...
I threw the letters down
I washed the poem clean
I've let the scales dry
So I could do a helmet
To avoid beheading...
For you... my rhyme
I cleaned its insides
I took off its eyes
For not having to bear
The humidity of the tears
I blew the letters up...
I threw the letters down
I washed the poem clean
I've let the scales dry
So I could do a helmet
To avoid beheading...
#forgiveness
#healing
#heartbroken
#heaven
#hurt
85 reads
6 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
17th Mar 2025 9:25pm
17th Mar 2025 9:25pm
Beheaded Poem
I beheaded a poem
For you... my rhyme
I cleaned its insides
I took off its eyes
For not having to bear
The humidity of the tears
I blew the letters up...
I threw the letters down
I washed the poem clean
I've let the scales dry
So I could do a helmet
To avoid beheading...
For you... my rhyme
I cleaned its insides
I took off its eyes
For not having to bear
The humidity of the tears
I blew the letters up...
I threw the letters down
I washed the poem clean
I've let the scales dry
So I could do a helmet
To avoid beheading...
#forgiveness
#healing
#heartbroken
#heaven
#hurt
85 reads
6 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
17th Mar 2025 9:25pm
17th Mar 2025 9:25pm
Beheaded Poem
I beheaded a poem
For you... my rhyme
I cleaned its insides
I took off its eyes
For not having to bear
The humidity of the tears
I blew the letters up...
I threw the letters down
I washed the poem clean
I've let the scales dry
So I could do a helmet
To avoid beheading...
For you... my rhyme
I cleaned its insides
I took off its eyes
For not having to bear
The humidity of the tears
I blew the letters up...
I threw the letters down
I washed the poem clean
I've let the scales dry
So I could do a helmet
To avoid beheading...
#forgiveness
#healing
#heartbroken
#heaven
#hurt
85 reads
6 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
17th Mar 2025 9:25pm
17th Mar 2025 9:25pm
Beheaded Poem
I beheaded a poem
For you... my rhyme
I cleaned its insides
I took off its eyes
For not having to bear
The humidity of the tears
I blew the letters up...
I threw the letters down
I washed the poem clean
I've let the scales dry
So I could do a helmet
To avoid beheading...
For you... my rhyme
I cleaned its insides
I took off its eyes
For not having to bear
The humidity of the tears
I blew the letters up...
I threw the letters down
I washed the poem clean
I've let the scales dry
So I could do a helmet
To avoid beheading...
#forgiveness
#healing
#heartbroken
#heaven
#hurt
85 reads
6 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
17th Mar 2025 9:25pm
17th Mar 2025 9:25pm
Beheaded Poem
I beheaded a poem
For you... my rhyme
I cleaned its insides
I took off its eyes
For not having to bear
The humidity of the tears
I blew the letters up...
I threw the letters down
I washed the poem clean
I've let the scales dry
So I could do a helmet
To avoid beheading...
For you... my rhyme
I cleaned its insides
I took off its eyes
For not having to bear
The humidity of the tears
I blew the letters up...
I threw the letters down
I washed the poem clean
I've let the scales dry
So I could do a helmet
To avoid beheading...
#forgiveness
#healing
#heartbroken
#heaven
#hurt
85 reads
6 Comments
Nevermindthegaps
Poem Published
3rd Apr 2025 6:45am
3rd Apr 2025 6:45am
Let’s Take Each Other To Hell One Last Time
I’ve always had a way
with the petrified and scared
despite the way my body pulses
aposematic signals
from the scarred knuckles and hulking frame
to the frown lines etched into my face
and I wonder if it’s
because of a sympathetic-nervous-system response
reminiscent of the times I hid in a closet and read books
my small boy body discoloured in the hue
of the beating I took
adrenaline still pounding through my trembling flesh
or if it was because I didn’t care if I got hurt ...
with the petrified and scared
despite the way my body pulses
aposematic signals
from the scarred knuckles and hulking frame
to the frown lines etched into my face
and I wonder if it’s
because of a sympathetic-nervous-system response
reminiscent of the times I hid in a closet and read books
my small boy body discoloured in the hue
of the beating I took
adrenaline still pounding through my trembling flesh
or if it was because I didn’t care if I got hurt ...
#beauty
#forgiveness
114 reads
5 Comments
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