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Submitted by Lola
Write a poem about trying to resist temptation.
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An old man with a crooked grin,
pulled me close with promises thin.
“Out of hell and away from sin,
a ride to peace—just step right in.”
The price was steep, all that I knew,
but with nothing left, what could I lose?
Yet as I neared, a shadow grew,
a boy with tears, old and blue.
Beside him, anger built in tin,
a man who’d lost to what’s within,
and a woman with flakey, peeling skin.
A sign fl...
It can be a nasty thing
Getting hurt so bad
So many times
But
Wanting to feel that rush again
To feel the warmth of the world
The urge to jump back in
That trap
That warm oasis
That feels like like home
But son,
Don’t fall for it
You’ve gone through it too many times
Don’t fall for that mirage again...
In the air of discovery
Something ticks
A sombering, slithering mess
A sickly slick tick
A bloodsucking time-keeper
A sobering boulder
Over your shoulder
You must roll up a mountain
And expect the dissonance of Sisyphus
You just smother out the silent hiss
You must maneuver the bolder
To hope that it would miss
The decadence of complacency
Covered in chocolate
The strawberry ...
(This probably doesn't fit the prompt exactly and I kinda rushed through writing it, but oh well... lol)
You probably wanted to,
And you had the perfect excuse,
But you couldn’t bring yourself
To hurt someone like me.
But why would that be true?
It should’ve been easy to choose
The better person to whom
You show loyalty....
‼️content warning: mentions of vaping‼️
I pass by a fruit stand and I salivate but not for the fruit. I crave an artificial taste, one that produces smoke.
I’d rather chop off my arm than vape again but then again I’d like to chop my arm off for fun.
We kept walking but two years later and I still remember that fruit stand. I still remember exactly how my vape smelled and tasted. I remembe...
I looked at him as if he were
a mountain,
and I was overwhelmed with
wanderlust.
My eyes began their ascent,
feet to legs, legs to hips—
and there they stopped to take a dip
To marvel at his wonders.
Reluctantly I continued my
travels due north,
Until I met lush lips that called
out to my traitorous own.
But I couldn’t stop there, heavens
no—
I wouldn’t stop there, so up I
go.
I reach my dest...
It’s so close
I can touch it
I can smell it
I can breathe the air around it
It’s so close
I can hear the serpent whisper in my ear
The fruits of my labor grow so near
A whisker’s length away
A beautiful death away
A shaky breath and I say
No
But it’s so close
Scales wrap around my neck
Squeeze tight till I’m out of breath
Change your mind they seem to say
There’s still time they deign to pray
Lau...
I want to kiss you
Really
You are my favorite
even though no one knows that
I would gladly take a bullet
to be your one and only
I want to hug you
with not a breath left between us
That smile of yours
it gets me giddy
Your smooth hands
would fit perfectly in mine
I want to fluff your hair
beautiful and brown
I found the cologne you spray
so I can smell you even when your not there
The w...
We all have felt it at one point in our lives
That thin line separating us from what we should do
And what we want to do
Like when your mother tells you not to eat cake
But then you see that she left it on the counter
And you have two choices
You either steel yourself
Or give into the temptation of the sugar
Which would you chose?
Temptation comes in all forms
Sexual, Physical, Emotional
Which ...
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