damaged people poems

A Better Person | Kenneth Eaton

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I found out the hard way
That if I went against what he said
I would find myself fighting
A battle for my life, ostracized,
Belittled, slandered by someone
Who didn’t really care about me,
Only about preserving his own status,
Keeping the secret hidden about
How he really is, and doing anything
To make sure everyone sides with him
And nobody ever knows the truth.
So I find myself shunned but
Grateful that I finally get to live
My own life, away from
All that horribleness,
Choosing my own path and
Who I spend time with,
Not doing the things he does,
Being a better person than
He wants me to be.

My Horrible Neighbor | Sarina Grant

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My horrible neighbor
Does everything in his power
To make everyone’s
Life miserable
It’s like he wakes up every day
With the sole intention of
Doing something annoying
It shows in his face
There’s no joy there
Just a sad broken person
Being rude because
He doesn’t know
What else to do

Unresolved Issues | Tamara Sommers

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It’s almost like you have no idea
What you did to me, how you
Reduced me to tears and destroyed
My being, stepped on my joy
And turned it into refuse,
Made me feel so small,
All because you didn’t know how
To get over all your garbage and
Stop putting it on me,
I seriously doubt you’ll every
Realize the effect you have
On other people, the only thing
That matters is you protecting
Your unconscious, unresolved issues.

Dead Eyes | Exposition

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there’s something about
the way she looks
tight face
uncomfortable smile
forced laugh
dead eyes
that betrays all the
things she was put through
a terrible family hazing
she wasn’t ever allowed
to talk about
leading her to
take out all her self-hate
on others

Destroying Everyone and Everything | Rodrigo Alcantara

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I’m astonished at their
sheer cruelty, depravity,
hypocrisy, coldness,
the lengths they will go to
to mislead their followers
so they can get more power,
make more money.
At what point is enough enough?
When does this cruel push for riches end?
They’ll stop at nothing because
this is about much more than just money,
it’s about that horrible thing(s) that
happened to them as children and
that they have to punish the rest
of humanity for forever.
Go see a psychiatrist instead of
destroying everyone and everything else.

Health Care | Anya Verhausen

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how damaged do you have to be
to want to deny people health care?

who hurt you so much in your past
that you have to hurt others?

why do you only feel better when
you’re damaging other people?

who told you greed and lust for power
was a good character trait?

why do you believe in horrible things
while pretending to be pious?

when will you stop hurting other people
just so you can feel better for a moment?

why don’t you just look inside for once
and fix all your wretched bile?

The Great Santini | Stan Morrison

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twenty-five years in the us army
still got that little boy haircut
wearing fatigues to the commissary
while keeping important contacts
run your household like a drill sergeant
your sadistic fantasy career and life path
canned images of honor, glory and respect
“clean that latreen with a toothbrush, soldier
you’ll be cleaning it every day for a month”
obscene defense budgets for war toy games
parades, holidays for those who gave their lives
for the failures of old men driven by greed
wear your dress uniform to simulate greatness
honoring a lifetime of service to our country
my hero!

Today It’s Me | Kevin Hudson

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Today it’s me but
What about tomorrow?
I’m not sure I can wait
Although I know I’ll have to
One way or the other
Hoping for some brief
Glimpse of hope,
A new moment of
Realization that it
Wasn’t about me.

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