Your Favorite Poems

[kittygrrl]

Rapewagon
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You decided to tell me,
in a '93 Ford wagon, blue,
after two years together,
two, now we're through.

You decided to tell me,
going 70, on the interstate,
flying a million-miles faster,
than minds anticipate...
after two years together,
it's you who escaped.

fuck you,
I love you

You decided to tell me,
inside your car,
trapped,
while you rape me...
might as well rape me...
I wish you would rape me...
you brought me this far.

[SoNotHer]

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

[kittygrrl]

She tells me
she's leaving--
says it's "a good thing"
and in those words
I understand the reason
burrowed beneath the bravery.

To many it seems
a death for mourning...

(this parting of ways)

truth is--
the dying is done,
only deepened
by the staying.

It takes far less courage
to stir the ashes;

it takes much more wisdom
to stand and cast them

away...

once the ashtray
of love is full.

codajae