I am back y’all. Told you it wouldn’t be too long. Just going through a rough patch of life. However, I am writing myself out of it one day at a time. Sometimes you have to write away the pain, so that’s what I thought would make an appropriate theme for us to write about: PAIN.
Please write a poem to fit the theme in the comments… Your poems can be long, short or even a haiku! They can be serious or silly. If you are not a poet then tell the poets you think of their pieces. Thanks for coming by and supporting my little corner of the blogosphere…
my piece is a little rough draft of a performance piece I am working on…
Lately I’ve been mad frustrated
Serotonin levels devastated
Depression leaving me inundated
Burst my happy little bubble – yes, deflated
But I did it , so guess I detrimentally masturbated
Yes, fucked myself over, mentally fornicated
I knew my life needed to be renovated
But I couldn’t afford it, the price had been inflated
If ever there was a game, I played it
If there was a mistake, I made it
Hope – best believe I slayed it
Self-respect, I have betrayed it
Never put action to my words so the my verbs were never conjugated
Negativity was my Valium I stayed sedated
In my own little world alienated
I was S.O.L. abbreviated
Wasn’t a phoenix so I went through the fire and was cremated
And some days it was myself that I hated
My destruction I have abetted and aided
Running in place has me exasperated
Life was a hungry bitch emaciated
A royal mess I have created
My supernova potential has quickly faded
If anyone tried to get in they hit a wall because my heart is barricaded
You needed to take a jackhammer to this Heart of stone for love to be excavated
Feeling like love and peace were overrated
Happiness- I forbade it
Denied my sickness, bc I’m no patient, so I never waited
Humble pie with a side of pride, I never ate it
Even when life tried to be sweet I couldn’t taste it
BUT
I needed to release – I feel spiritually constipated
So I tried with every fiber of my being because I’m tired of being nauseated
My heart just needed to be reeducated
So this love for self could be reinstated
It’s so easy, but smart folks always make things so complicated
All I needed to do was step on this stage, let out my pain, just say it
So the sounds of your snaps will scare these demons so they can be relocated
But best believe the path that I’ve taken I’d never trade it
You only live once… you can’t replay it.
Just make sure you learn from your bullshit so the pain. isn’t. wasted
your turn…