Please.
Please leave me alone
Please Don’t come
On pretexts
Don’t make excuses
I don’t want you inside my house
I don’t want you inside my head
Don’t look at me
Don’t lay on my bed
Don’t stand so close
Don’t pretend
You disturb me
You mess with my head
I am left askew
Anew
I don’t want to remember you in my house
I don’t want to remember you in my head
I don’t want to remember your skin touching mine
I don’t want to remember
I wish to forget
It hurts so bad
I can’t breathe
I can’t catch my breath
I’m reduced to a seething ball of anxiety.
Wound so tight
I feel like I’ll burst
Into violence
And I will destroy
Your impassive face.
Your cold lips
And your dead eyes
I want to take the cheap china plates
Of our memories
And smash them into smithereens
I want to crush them in my bare hand
Till I bleed every night dry
I want to choke the breath
Out of every minute that I was with you
And you were nowhere, with me
Please.
Leave me alone.
Lest I kill you
And paint my skin
With the blood
of your indifference.
violence
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Re: violence
first of all, wanted to say this one is awesome. Secondly congrats on your 1 year anniversary with TPS. I look forward to seeing more stuff from you. Third-I know what it feels like to feel complete hatred toward someone, knowing you would commit violence if they were near you again.
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- Josie
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Re: violence
You have captured so much of the emotional state of someone who is experiencing the devastation left by an abusive relationship. I probably would have ended your poem with 'Leave me alone', but there is a lot of punch in your last four lines.
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- parkayaapravesh
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Re: violence
Chelle, Ive been terrible at keeping up with this space. But i'm going to try be better this year. Also i need to learn to not use poetry just as a catharsis but also as a medium to express all kinds of feelings. i don't like that i only write when im hurt, sad or angry. sigh* im going to try harder. thank you so much for your words,Chelle wrote: ↑February 18th, 2018, 3:46 amfirst of all, wanted to say this one is awesome. Secondly congrats on your 1 year anniversary with TPS. I look forward to seeing more stuff from you. Third-I know what it feels like to feel complete hatred toward someone, knowing you would commit violence if they were near you again.
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- parkayaapravesh
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Re: violence
Josie, when i wrote it, i was only seeing violence, i was so so angry. the painting of my body with blood, ritualistic to the act of war, seemed apt. and i could feel how much i wanted to do that in my bones. :) i still feel like that, but i think that fire has burnt down to an ember now. so thank you for your feedback!
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