Lozzamus
Poem Published
20th Nov 2024 9:31am
20th Nov 2024 9:31am
Secrets - The Drive Home
It's still early. We could go to see a film. What do you think?'
'I want to go home.'
'And you're sure about that?'
No answer.
'Okay, but say if you change your mind,' I say. I get into the car. 'We can go anywhere or do anything you like.' I reach over to help fasten his seatbelt, but he tenses, so I back off.
Poor kid. He must be hurting so much. Robert acts as if his mother never existed, refusing to talk about her at all. I don't blame him, really, although the extreme reaction concerns me. Like what do we do about...
'I want to go home.'
'And you're sure about that?'
No answer.
'Okay, but say if you change your mind,' I say. I get into the car. 'We can go anywhere or do anything you like.' I reach over to help fasten his seatbelt, but he tenses, so I back off.
Poor kid. He must be hurting so much. Robert acts as if his mother never existed, refusing to talk about her at all. I don't blame him, really, although the extreme reaction concerns me. Like what do we do about...
#family
#mystery
#relationships #risk
#relationships #risk
89 reads
4 Comments
Lozzamus
Poem Published
13th Nov 2024 9:42pm
13th Nov 2024 9:42pm
Secrets - Robert, Aloof
Lunch with Mel. Read of the newspapers.
Quarter to three. I set off to collect Robert from school. The other kids have gone. Robert's standing by the whiteboard with his teacher Miss Lyons, who greets me with a warm smile.
'We had a good day, didn't we Robert?' she says.
The boy nods and clutches his bag.
Miss Lyons tosses back her light brown hair and gets ready to leave. She's in her mid-twenties, pretty, with an open face and green eyes. 'I'm very confident about Robert,' she says. 'He's made a very promising start. I'm convinced...
Quarter to three. I set off to collect Robert from school. The other kids have gone. Robert's standing by the whiteboard with his teacher Miss Lyons, who greets me with a warm smile.
'We had a good day, didn't we Robert?' she says.
The boy nods and clutches his bag.
Miss Lyons tosses back her light brown hair and gets ready to leave. She's in her mid-twenties, pretty, with an open face and green eyes. 'I'm very confident about Robert,' she says. 'He's made a very promising start. I'm convinced...
#family
#mystery
#relationships
110 reads
9 Comments
Her
Poem Published
12th Nov 2024 2:57pm
12th Nov 2024 2:57pm
My Thought For Today: Holding Onto Love Too Tightly Doesn’t Allow Room for Growth
I’m a former plant killer with black thumb, therefore, I had no business having a relationship. I put everything I had into someone else without giving myself the nourishment I required. I smothered those relationships with love. I thought I was doing the right thing. Clearly I wasn’t. My boundaries were blurred.
Through trial and error and through learning more about myself and therefore, more about trauma and C-PTSD, I’ve learned that love needs room to blossom. Fear of abandonment, the reason I clung so tightly, isn’t going to keep someone close. It’s a noose, it traps, it...
Through trial and error and through learning more about myself and therefore, more about trauma and C-PTSD, I’ve learned that love needs room to blossom. Fear of abandonment, the reason I clung so tightly, isn’t going to keep someone close. It’s a noose, it traps, it...
#healing
#love
#relationships
82 reads
10 Comments
gracemarie
Poem Published
11th Nov 2024 8:05am
11th Nov 2024 8:05am
Unconditional love
"Why do you love me?"
He asked with eyes full of tears
"I don't deserve you"
He said as a tear started to run down his face
"I put you through so much shit,
and you still stay. Why?"
I tried to hold back tears
as his words hurt my heart
I gently explained
"There is this beautiful thing
called unconditional love" I said
A smile lit up his face
I still feel like he doesn't understand
Nothing he could could do
could make me lose my love for this man
Losing him would be worse...
He asked with eyes full of tears
"I don't deserve you"
He said as a tear started to run down his face
"I put you through so much shit,
and you still stay. Why?"
I tried to hold back tears
as his words hurt my heart
I gently explained
"There is this beautiful thing
called unconditional love" I said
A smile lit up his face
I still feel like he doesn't understand
Nothing he could could do
could make me lose my love for this man
Losing him would be worse...
#emotional
#forgiveness
#hope
#love
#relationships
123 reads
1 Comment
gracemarie
Poem Published
11th Nov 2024 7:34am
11th Nov 2024 7:34am
Crazy in love
People tell me I'm crazy
because I won't give you up
They wonder why nothing you do is bad enough
Bad enough for me to run
Bad enough for me to be done
I'll admit I'm crazy
Crazy in love
My love for you out weighs
all the bad you've done
They ask why I don't hate you
The truth is I can't
I can't explain the happiness I feel
when you hold my hand
I've tried to give you up
I've tried to say it's the end
But I always end up running back to you again
When I try to give you up
my heart screams in pain ...
because I won't give you up
They wonder why nothing you do is bad enough
Bad enough for me to run
Bad enough for me to be done
I'll admit I'm crazy
Crazy in love
My love for you out weighs
all the bad you've done
They ask why I don't hate you
The truth is I can't
I can't explain the happiness I feel
when you hold my hand
I've tried to give you up
I've tried to say it's the end
But I always end up running back to you again
When I try to give you up
my heart screams in pain ...
#emotional
#forgiveness
#love #relationships
#love #relationships
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Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
11th Nov 2024 3:37am
11th Nov 2024 3:37am
decision fatigue
Decision fatigue:
it feels like a permanent brain freeze after trying
to inhale too much icecream. Decision making literally hurts, particularly anything open ended.
Small decisions are exhausting but doable.
Hard decisions are panic attack inducing.
The small every day things that everyone else
does feel like looking up at Mt Everest.
Add in depression and anxiety and you've got a
recipe for chaos.
I swore at you in the hardware store
after you tried to bully me into making
a decision I didn't need to...
it feels like a permanent brain freeze after trying
to inhale too much icecream. Decision making literally hurts, particularly anything open ended.
Small decisions are exhausting but doable.
Hard decisions are panic attack inducing.
The small every day things that everyone else
does feel like looking up at Mt Everest.
Add in depression and anxiety and you've got a
recipe for chaos.
I swore at you in the hardware store
after you tried to bully me into making
a decision I didn't need to...
#anger
#conflict
#depression #relationships
#depression #relationships
178 reads
2 Comments
Her
Poem Published
8th Nov 2024 1:30pm
8th Nov 2024 1:30pm
My Thought for Today: Green Flags, Red Flags, What About My White Flag?
It’s trendy to talk about green flags and red flags, those obvious and sometimes not so obvious indicators of heathy and unhealthy behaviors in relationships, but I’ve never heard anyone talk about my white flag, how I surrendered my rationale or my instincts, and ended up in toxic relationships or relationships that turned toxic. Maybe if I saw “white flag” it would have helped. Because let’s face it, we’re drawn to words that work.
I’ve surrendered to situations in relationships and the behaviors of others for many reasons, but mostly because my C-PTSD heart and brain didn’t...
I’ve surrendered to situations in relationships and the behaviors of others for many reasons, but mostly because my C-PTSD heart and brain didn’t...
#relationships
90 reads
10 Comments
DetectiveOGasm
Poem Published
31st Oct 2024 1:20am
31st Oct 2024 1:20am
Would You? Would I?
#honesty
#identity
#philosophical
#relationships
#sex
259 reads
2 Comments
Samnash
Sam Nash
Sam Nash
Poem Published
5th Oct 2024 10:29pm
5th Oct 2024 10:29pm
The Cat Lady (part 3)
#erotic
#fiction
#memories
#mother
#relationships
137 reads
2 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
5th Oct 2024 5:43am
5th Oct 2024 5:43am
The Touch Of Infinity (Shapeshifter- Desert Warrior)
Two hearts that beat as one
Tender words spoken, easier said than done
Caution thrown to the wind
Emotions and feelings surrendered, a touch of love when our Chi's slowly blend
Euphoric rush, once my soft purrs and his throaty groans to ether we send
Holding tightly and steadfast this is our beginning, infinity has no end
He allows me to silently animate in my suspend, and emotionally recommend
In the cradle of our stolen moments
Words mingled, whispered, entwined
Eight, creeping to a celestial nine ...
Tender words spoken, easier said than done
Caution thrown to the wind
Emotions and feelings surrendered, a touch of love when our Chi's slowly blend
Euphoric rush, once my soft purrs and his throaty groans to ether we send
Holding tightly and steadfast this is our beginning, infinity has no end
He allows me to silently animate in my suspend, and emotionally recommend
In the cradle of our stolen moments
Words mingled, whispered, entwined
Eight, creeping to a celestial nine ...
#lover
#passion
#happiness
#relationships
#fate
286 reads
1 Comment
Samnash
Sam Nash
Sam Nash
Poem Published
4th Oct 2024 5:18pm
4th Oct 2024 5:18pm
The Cat Lady (part 2)
#erotic
#forgiveness
#mother #relationships
#mother #relationships
117 reads
2 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
4th Oct 2024 11:07am
4th Oct 2024 11:07am
In love with an image
I'm sitting here waiting for you
You said you were coming over at 7 PM
No show...again
When will I wake up and tell myself, this isn't right?
When will I stop stressing over you?
You're not that great, but I still want you
Why is that?
Why am I so attracted to you?
I need to move on
When you would look at me, I'd get goosebumps and become nervous
I would want to show you how dedicated & in love I am with you
You know that, but you never accept it
I'm dancing around my own wants and desires for you but fall flat on my...
You said you were coming over at 7 PM
No show...again
When will I wake up and tell myself, this isn't right?
When will I stop stressing over you?
You're not that great, but I still want you
Why is that?
Why am I so attracted to you?
I need to move on
When you would look at me, I'd get goosebumps and become nervous
I would want to show you how dedicated & in love I am with you
You know that, but you never accept it
I'm dancing around my own wants and desires for you but fall flat on my...
#fiction
#MentalHealth
#obsession
#relationships
#ShortStory
179 reads
10 Comments
DU Poetry : Long Poems About Relationships
