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Teen Poetry #9

Bargaining chip

UNTAMEDelegance
Member

since 2009-05-30

Posts 222
Oregon

0 posted 2010-05-18 05:17 PM

That's what I am,
your bargaining chip;
your prim protégé
who will genteelly flip
you the bird;

flip my lid,
flip a smile.
So demure! So polite!
Every which while
I'll be cursing the sight

of your flawless facade;
your deceitful creations.
I'm the product, the love-child
of your machinations.
So go on, let's lie

in our bed made of smiles.
With each one I give
I'm dying inside.
Can I not just live
without trying to hide?

that I don't want to follow.
I don't want to lead.
Though you've drained me all hollow,
I continue to bleed,
bloody streams

of regret
that I let
this go on for so long.
Now I can't forget
all the sins and the wrongs

I was forced to commit
by your steel-hardened hand,
that I cursed and I bit
as it gave me the brand
of a bruise

on my arm;
on my face.
You're the fear in the my dreams;
my nightmares you grace.
You're the source of my screams.

It's freedom I crave
as I beg and I plead,
but still you deprave
me and leave me to bleed.
I know what I am:

Your bargaining chip.
Don't even try
to deny it.
Just quit.

Nothing is more painful than realizing he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to him. (Unknown)

[This message has been edited by UNTAMEDelegance (05-19-2010 01:35 AM).]

whisperingwalt
Member

since 2010-04-29

Posts 240
Coquitlam, BC, Canada

1 posted 2010-05-20 02:08 AM

Whoa pretty deep and emotional...sometimes as we learn to forgive we relize that we actually allow ourselves out a prison that was stealing our joy.ww

Octave
Member

since 2008-07-29

Posts 186
Highlands, Scotland.

2 posted 2010-05-23 05:08 AM

This was great. Really liked;

'So go on, let's lie

in our bed made of smiles.
With each one I give
I'm dying inside.'

And i also particularly enjoyed the first stanza. A lot to think about with this one. Nice write. (:

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