Quiet Poetry Lounge : a heart shattered

baller

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A heart shattered

Slivers of resentment
Masked my
Discontent

Like humpty dumpty
It all fell down

Crashing

A patchwork of
Frayed emotions
Strewn across cluttered fields
Spilled out
The foils of an aching heart

The creech, creech, creech as my heart broke
Brought increasing agony as each nerve ending woke
And the horrid stench of sordid blues
Gave rise to the filth of the sins I chose

There was a tortured cry from an aching soul
For the tales, the deceit, and the lies I’ve told

When day break came and my pain did not cease
I prayed for forgiveness but it brought little relief

With splintering shards splayed across the floor
The wailing of my heart screamed once more

As chasms and fissures began to grow
And the splintering sound of cracking grew
It overwhelmed the silent winds that blew
Erasing the happiness I once knew

‘Til heartbreak no longer filled the air
No misery and anguish. No feigned despair

Shattered

A million pieces of puzzlement

I followed the light that mingled in the east
Met damaging shards of emotional grief
(I had inflicted on me)

There was no relief
No…shred of hope or sacred belief
No peace to pacify my weary soul
No stories told of long ago romance
No chance for happiness
No mo’
Will fantasy-filled dreams infect my soul
…corrupt my day

I am held sway by Hell’s wicked beast
Without relief

Never again
Shall I be
FREE
 
A heart shattered

Slivers of resentment
Masked my
Discontent

Like humpty dumpty
It all fell down

Crashing

A patchwork of
Frayed emotions
Strewn across cluttered fields
Spilled out
The foils of an aching heart

The creech, creech, creech as my heart broke
Brought increasing agony as each nerve ending woke
And the horrid stench of sordid blues
Gave rise to the filth of the sins I chose

There was a tortured cry from an aching soul
For the tales, the deceit, and the lies I’ve told

When day break came and my pain did not cease
I prayed for forgiveness but it brought little relief

With splintering shards splayed across the floor
The wailing of my heart screamed once more

As chasms and fissures began to grow
And the splintering sound of cracking grew
It overwhelmed the silent winds that blew
Erasing the happiness I once knew

‘Til heartbreak no longer filled the air
No misery and anguish. No feigned despair

Shattered

A million pieces of puzzlement

I followed the light that mingled in the east
Met damaging shards of emotional grief
(I had inflicted on me)

There was no relief
No…shred of hope or sacred belief
No peace to pacify my weary soul
No stories told of long ago romance
No chance for happiness
No mo’
Will fantasy-filled dreams infect my soul
…corrupt my day

I am held sway by Hell’s wicked beast
Without relief

Never again
Shall I be
FREE

Brother Poet Baller,

This piece went down slow but not easy...felt the subject's anguish and grief engulf him as he revealed himself to him. Little is more real than this piece. Bravo, my friend. Thank you for sharing.
 
THANK YOU, poets. a poet's one wish is that his words touch someone deeply.

Each sliver and shard
Of this shattered heart
Ached
Pulsated
As it waded through despair’s many levels
But despair’s hunger was unabated
By a Shattering heart’s woes
Its parts Weary of waiting
For its feeding
(…for its hunger to be fed)
Each sliver dreads
Its path to
Unhappiness
Its quest for joy
Denied
Each sliver tried
To close open Nerve endings
But Pretending No pain Proved painful itself
So…It wept
Tears of cleansing rains
But despair knew no Pain
Again
The slivers throbbed
Robbing me of peace
My thirst for sanity Denied
With each tear wept
…each moment I crept
Closer to the precipice Of despair
Was it fair?
This instrument of Unhappiness
That dressed me so…
Completely?
 

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