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Post by Lauren on Oct 7, 2014 9:26:53 GMT -5
The guilt trip was used more than once. My heart is liquid, not solid. I pump your grief into my veins. My body is condemned, To your shattered mind.
Everything seems so clear When you put it into perspective. Tell me to jump; I ask how high? You tell to me fall; I’m on hands and knees.
I feed off your phony smile And clammy hands. Tell me you care. Make my heart beat.
I’ve been told once before, A hand is there to balance the weight. I believed it without any cause. You obviously need my company.
I am a shadow for you to creep up on. You are afraid to stand alone. Why do I take the lead? I depend on usage.
My heart does not take turns. I spin around full circle, Trying to understand The meaning of a friend.
I gave you desire, You shattered that gift. I gave you a hand, You let go.
No longer will this heart be trampled on by you.
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Post by SilverFox Jams on Nov 13, 2014 1:00:40 GMT -5
Very emotional. It hurts when a friend betrays you, it really does. I feel as if you've opened up a window to allow a glimpse of your past to flow through you while typing this. I could just perceive the anger and hurt as I was reading this.
It's like I could "hear" you telling this to the person who wasn't a genuine friend. (I do hope you got to actually voice those words towards this pretender.)
In that sense, this is a good poem. I'm guessing you've written a bunch of poetry, just like I have. I still sort of do, but once in a while these days!
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Post by Lauren on Nov 14, 2014 20:50:21 GMT -5
I have a bunch of poetry I've collected over the years, beginning when I was sixteen. I haven't written a poem in about a year or so. The closest thing I've gotten to having a poem publish--well, ANYTHING published was a few years back with the college I was attending. It was on their student newsletter. If I can find the link, I'll post it. Who knows if they still have it archived lol. Thank you for the critique This was something I wrote in my high school days. Losing a friend is similar to going through a break up. They're both intense relationships; you share a lot with the other person, emotionally, physically and mentally. It certainly does hurt.
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Post by SilverFox Jams on Nov 15, 2014 0:31:29 GMT -5
Yes, true. I've lost a friend when I was in elementary school. (I had a crush on him, and I didn't know any better when I shared in front of the wrong person, who also happened to be friends with this guy. It's a little sad that I hardly remember anything about this now.) Kids, especially the very young, tend to be cruel sometimes. I wasn't friends with that person anymore after the bully I knew told him. I believe he said some mean things and laughed at me.
I haven't seen either of them in years, though I hold no resentment towards them. That was so long ago, and we were so young!
I'd love to read more of your poetry, and I'm always as honest as I can be whenever it comes to leaving my thoughts in feedback. I don't think there's really a wrong way to write poetry. A lot of it is free expression. You don't need to put in a whole lot of thought to it in comparison to writing stories and not all poems need to rhyme. I know most of mine don't, and I'm not as picky in writing them as I get when it comes to fiction stories.
I have a mix of old emotional poetry too, and a few silly ones too. A portion of them are song parody lyrics, some of them video game related. I'm a geek, but hey I don't mind that a bit! I'm back into song writing now, actually, and I've got a really good freebie software and built in laptop mic to record my voice with. It's an original, cute song I'm putting together about a board game I've played a dozen times with my mom and our friends. The lyrics are being changed as I'm figuring out how to sing them to the music arrangement that's gradually coming together.
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