by Daniel Turner |
Categories:
love, mother,
Around my mom, I always felt my guilt
My conscience seem to always take her side
Some years ago, I gave her a new quilt
I still recall the tears of joy she cried
My gift of love to warm her nights with pride
It's hand sewn patches in a ring design
It showed up at my door after she died
Inside a plain brown box tied with used twine
And though there was no note, I read her mind
She knew the message sent would be received
A gift of love, to warm, when life's unkind
She once made quilts to give to those in need
Her gift of love with message plain to see
She knew the one in need, this time... was me.
by Daniel Turner
by Jan Allison |
Categories:
forgiveness,
I asked you what I have done wrong
But there is no response - just a stony silence
No words can convey my guilt, my inner sadness
This will be my last goodbye
My final letter to you my love
Tears flow down my ashen face
Tears of sadness, tears of regret
Drip
Drip
Drip
Drip
Tears fall on the paper as I write
They mingle with the damp blue ink
The inky water leaches into the paper
Its colour starts to bleed and spread
Until it fades into nothingness
I am empty, devoid of emotion
I can say no more
Forgive me for being me
Forgive me for caring
Forgive me for loving you
Goodbye forever
02~15~15
by Tim Smith |
Categories:
love,
"Before the winds were born and there were signs of life,
your beauty was already stirring inside my soul."
Star light shine down for me this night
for I may see just one more time
through hungry eyes
a solemn soul still
in contemplation
Strokes gentle in a sea of silk
reflected in a perfect way
showing beauty
unknown still
seeing faults
Night carry your breeze to her side
blow away any guilt
leaving just
visions still
and a peaceful smile
by L. M. K. |
Categories:
forgiveness, hurt, love,
This heavy guilt weighing on me,
Like too many leaves on a little tree
Covered in rain from a sky that poured
I hurt a person who I adored
If I could have just let things be,
Then maybe he could now run free
Instead he stands numb with a silent plea
My actions, once sweet, are now deplored
This heavy guilt
He and I, once we
Now like locks without a key
The distance so great we could never ford
But his name still on my heart is scored
I wonder if the world can see
This heavy guilt
by Francis J Grasso |
Categories:
death, grief, life, lost love, motivation, moving on,
The calm that comes with morning light.
Lying here... from an untroubled night.
Alone, awake after restful sleep.
No tears left, no tears to weep.
Dreaming where dreams were never seen.
Free from all that might have been.
By myself with a pristine heart,
to begin again; a brand new start.
No more fear as I arise.
No sadness here to burn my eyes.
Only peace to guide my way.
No more guilt to mar the day.
My spirit rises in the sun,
as life again has just begun.
written 01.20.2017
by Monica Evette |
Categories:
depression, husband, life,
I look at you and I don't want you
Stopped needing your kiss and touch
Needed you to love me for me
Tried to get you to do your part
Make memories and cherish those made
Buried in depression
Covered in guilt and pain
Still I stayed
Looking for a way out
Wanting to be anywhere but here
Going across the bridge I want to drive off
Fly into the sky
Fall into the river below
'Til death do us part
by Mike Gentile |
Categories:
friend, friendship, friendship love, growth, how i feel, life, meaningful, world,
The fence on which my feelings pause
Forever will be lost for cause
For should it stop my love to flow
Would pain me more than I could know
For fences keep out or keep in
To build one would be such a sin
And should one born to me exist
It’s time to let it be dismissed
A bridge, far better to be built
With no embarrassment or guilt
Where differences can meet to learn
That bridges are not meant to burn
Perhaps then I can follow through
On feelings that I have for you
Though you think differently than me
It’s not just difference that I see
by Monia Kurtz |
Categories:
cancer, death, i love you, loss, love hurts, meaningful,
Your soul was being attacked
Meanwhile mine carried bags
Of sorrow, devastation and guilt
For I knew your little body couldn’t handle this
This cancer that sprung up out of nowhere when you were two
But you got your army men and went to work
Fighting
How strong your little heart was
Bigger than any of those little army men
Nevertheless, your little body didn’t fight forever
How could it?
So I sat you on my lap and told you that it was okay
You died that day.
So now,
Every chance I get I say screw Cancer
Fot taking the most precious boy I’d ever laid eyes on.
by Beata Agustin |
Categories:
blessing, christian, faith, forgiveness, god, jesus, spiritual,
“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” 2 Corinthians 9:8 of the King James Bible; "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?" Romans 6:1 KJV
God’s grace abounds where guilt does hide
As pardon reigns above sin’s pain
There --- mercy, hope and love reside.
God’s grace abounds where guilt does hide
Since divine forgiveness smites pride
Toward triumph of blissful gain.
God’s grace abounds where guilt does hide
As pardon reigns above sin’s pain.
by Neha Agrawal |
Categories:
betrayal, boyfriend, feelings, first love, football, for him, forgiveness,
I suffered,he laughed
I filled up his voids, he created mine.
I looked for roses,he gave cactus
I looked only for his heart,he focussed on my body
I healed all those stitches,he gave me wounds..
I ignored him,he started following
I left him,he cried
I didn't hold any grudges,he holds guilt.
by Hgarvey Daniel Esquire |
Categories:
life, lost love, love,
It Still Continues
Sorrow Pain Agony GUILT
Please forgive me LOVE
by Jessica Zorn |
Categories:
deep, emotions, feelings,
The colors of my mind
Collide in conversation
But all I see
Is black and white
Thoughts so empty
That feeling should
Not be there
And yet I still shed tears
Unknown to myself why
Loss,love,hate,loneliness
Idled Truths of past reason
False hope and gutless actions
Limitless but not limited too
Pain,sorrow,love, guilt
by Kim Merryman |
Categories:
faith, forgiveness, god, love, peace,
God's voice comes in gentle whispers:
soft and soothing
never harsh.
He whispers words of love and grace,
then wraps you in a warm embrace.
You must be quiet,
you must be still,
to hear God's whisper to your soul.
He'll whisper "peace",
when you are troubled.
He'll whisper "faith",
in times of doubt.
And when you're wracked
with guilt from sin,
if you'll be still,
and let Him in,
you'll hear Him whisper:
"I forgive."
715/21
by Paul Callus |
Categories:
love, lust,
She begged me to make love to her
I could not look into her eyes
I wanted to but would not dare
She begged me to make love to her
I knew deep down it was not fair
To lead her on with lust and lies
She begged me to make love to her
I could not look into her eyes
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Contest: One NEW Triolet
Sponsor: Alfred Vassallo
by Kim Merryman |
Categories:
god, prayer, sin,
Lord, breathe in me Your breath of life,
Awaken my slumbering soul.
Fill me with Your Holy Spirit,
And I will be made whole.
Remove from me my guilt and anguish,
Cleanse me from my grievous sin.
Here I am in full surrender,
My heart is Yours, Lord, enter in.
Restore the joy of my salvation,
Infuse me with Your love divine.
Knowing You is all that matters,
I am Yours and You are mine.
7/26/21
For Brian Strand's You Choose Poetry Contest
by Frederic Parker |
Categories:
lost love, memory,
Memories of guilt fall and spiral down
To fill love's empty soul with its debris
Tormented from sadness I know profound
I've built a funeral pyre my mind will see
Yesterday's desires I've folded in time
To cast on the flames where memories die
Lovers names burn in colored smoke and climb
Dispersing above in an endless sky
These burnt alms donated from my fool's gold
Are now gray cold ash born from flames that weep
Collected from tears and love that turned cold
From time's burning fires of flames, I reap
I've wept from my yesterdays that grew cold
Now lost in ashes as I have grown old
10/5/17 contest End of Form series
sponsor Broken Wings
by Judith S |
Categories:
i miss you,
Perhaps regrets sadly
Burn holes where pain forms
Even loving madly
Won’t stop these dark storms
Flaming comets burning
Souls joined two as one
Wanting, lusting, yearning
Fire that lit the sun
Dreamers, lovers thwarted
You were my soul’s light
Argued, angry, parted
Guilt paints that black night
Praying angels’ embrace
Wrap their wings ‘round you
Lonely silence replace
The love, once, we knew.
___________________________
March 8, 2018
Written for 88 Syllable Contest
Sponser: Joseph May
(a/c =3 words/2 syllables b/c = 5 words/1 syllable rhyme:abab)
Verified in Howmanysyllables.com
by Shabna Rafeek |
Categories:
forgiveness, love, me,
Heart aches a great deal.
Feeling the guilt' real.
Pouring through my eyes is tears;
Unable to put in words my fears.
Though am the partial wrong doer'
I wouldn't like to justify, as it is over.
And to you i sing this apology song,
As i cannot forget you for a second long,
For the mistake i committed, knowing,
Just avoiding your advices from following.
Frightened, that the love you bestowed would cease,
I plead you to forgive me and bestow your love in ease.
Punish me with word or hand.
Never ever band me from experiencing your love,
As you are my second mother,
And my heart gives no place to another.
Accept my apology!
by Kristen Bruni |
Categories:
love,
Live within senses
Love within faith
Fight within boundaries
Smile without hate.
Breathe with your voice
Sleep with your strength
Laugh with your humor
Cry at arm's length.
Melt within memories
Think without facts
Yearn with just heart
Dismiss what detracts
Lean with no shoulder
Kiss with no touch
Make fun without hurt
Carry as a clutch.
Speak without words
Connect without dots
Collide without losing
Our unique mystery knots.
Wonder without reason
Curious without ties
Protecting without proof
Falling from just eyes.
Intertwined without reason
Blooms without wilt
Tugging without doubting
Needing without guilt.
by Tim Ryerson |
Categories:
daughter, holiday,
Beyond all the hard times before
Eternal and pure at the core
Beyond all the guilt and the pains
I love you is all that remains
In spite of the worry and strife
I'm honored you entered my life
In spite of the losses and gains
I love you is all that remains
There are no more debts to forgive
Nor any regrets to relive
There are no more smudges or stains
I love you is all that remains
Let richer men offer up pearls
A poor man gives this my dear girls
Just a verse that proudly exclaims
I love you is all that remains
*Written several years ago for Christmas to my three daughters who often asked, "How did you ever put up with us?"
by Geoffrey Brewer |
Categories:
relationship,
Were time in the abundance of our youth
When days stretched out like plains to the horizon
I’d see an endless space, await the truth
Of outcomes that could come from chance arising
But now the dawn but presages the dusk
And time to pause in patience depletes
My innocence no longer in the thrust
To prove the righteousness of my conceit
My love, of value now more than my virtue
Would gladly accept blame that it bring peace
Contrition for the the acts and words that hurt you
No time now for extenuation pleas
The guilt is mine, I’ll take the consequence
Truth needs no more your pain to prove its sense
by Tom Cunningham |
Categories:
death, ocean,
Asleep in my cabin as we crossed the ocean
Woke up with a start to a sound like big thunder
All around me now was just noisy commotion
An iceberg we’d hit that was tearing us asunder.
I have survivor’s guilt suffer nightmarish dreams
See widespread panic hear the sounds of loud screams
I would love to forget that night of memories
But to do so would somehow dishonour the deceased.
written 9th April 2019
For writing challenge 1-April, 2019-Its All About 8- Poetry Contest.
Sponsored By Dear Heart.
by Michael J. Falotico |
Categories:
lost love
Did you see my face when you walked away...
All things promised fell apart and went their way...
You couldn't turn around to see if I had a tear...
Blame was spread and heartache was all too clear...
Who used who was a question that covered both our faces...
We shared the guilt and washed it away not leaving any traces...
I turned around and watched you walk into another day...
Left only to wonder if either one really ever had their say...
My tears ran slow like a shadow on the wall...
Words I couldn't scream, I was trying not to fall...
But you still never saw my face to see if the pain was real...
Just maybe we both ran away from a love too afraid to feel...
by Edgelord Pingas69 |
Categories:
depression, loneliness, lonely, sin, woman,
Boiling shells crack down hard upon raining rooftops
None doth any apparitional material cover upon her arrogant gift
She hast not laid down upon her last upstanding
Glass convails images of the inconceivable
Throwing away the Sun in blackened sickness
No guilt, no shame,
Unfeeling the inevitable eternal despisement
Swarms choking the insides with a blanket
They whisper in your ear "I love you"
They grant you no delegable antidote
Pig-wrapped in a wasteful pursuit of carnal futility
Living out the rest of days hollow
Old and carolled she slips on the filth of plastic suit
No, she won't live that long
(Originally Written 3/20/2019)
by Laura Breidenthal |
Categories:
absence, conflict, courage, creation, dark, feelings, heart,
The pretty cast of sorrow—
Hollow, yet comforting,
When damasked on those lips,
Or teased upon that fake smile
I see such sorrow inside of her
And weep inwardly,
For I love her gazes
And hate her mazes
Paler now is the face
And love it more I must,
For the moment I express disgust,
She is gone like rain
Leaving guilt on trickling rooftops
Hollow company—
Is still company,
And that is why I still love her—
Somehow her smile is real
2.23.20