Writing Prompt

POEM STARTER

"Love is the lie that keeps us alive."

Use this as the first or last line of a poem in any style.

Writings

What Is Love?

What is love? Love is something that makes you happy, it is something that makes you mad.

Love is something that makes you laugh so hard you fall on the floor, love is something that makes you sad.

Love is something that makes you smile, love is something that makes you glad. Love is something that makes you glee, love is something that makes you reek. Love is something that makes you grieve, love is something that makes you bad.

Love makes us do everything and anything. Contributing in suffering and warning.

“Why do people love in the morning?” They cry, but they never know until it’s time.

Love keeps us hiding, love keeps us in the dark. Love keeps us from running, love keeps us from Burning.

Love keeps us from everything and anything, but ourselves. Seeking for keeping, we forget time keeps ticking. Chasing, shouting, checking. Everything but sharing.

Wishing, hitting, dreaming. But we’ve lost the meaning. We lay there, shouting. Shouting and shouting until we lose our voice.

Until we can no longer shout. We go back to realizing the meaning, then we are retrieving.

Wrecking, staring, cheating. We’ve seem to lost the meaning yet again, “everything happens for a reason”

Spitting, kicking, ripping. You have not been chosen. Reaching for what you once knew as love, you start turning “I can go back.” You say

“I can remember” you say. But you don’t prepare yourself for the heat. Cheat, eat, repeat.

We eat what we greet. The sweet treat sounding elite until we hit delete.

Cheat, eat, repeat. It is now offbeat. What once used to repeat is now effete.

We cry and cry refusing to admit defeat, only until we deplete, do we retreat.

Love

I didn’t know he’d go all crazy My own boyfriend Dragging me Down Down Down Into his cold basement Letting my head hit the stairs My hands are tied Binded by the rough rope, Rope Rope Rope He tells me I am his. But I am not I will not let him have me But I can make him think Think that I am his Think that I have fallen in love But how can I? My mouth has a sock in it I cannot speak I cannot move He walks down the stairs Tells me that he loves me But how could he love me He hurt me He takes the gag out So I can eat But I cannot eat I wouldn’t be able to keep it down Months go by with more progress, He lets me watch tv Sitting on his lap And play on his phone, The news has stopped talking about me Missing woman Probably never to be found again The thought scares me How can it not? He thinks I am in love, He cut my hair a dyed it black My beautiful natural blonde gone Down the drain He takes me out Out Out Out Yes I am out, Outside In the light It’s blinding After months of darkness He’s taking me to park, dragging me along, How can I make someone see me Pay attention to me Call the police We walk around the park for hours He whispered in my ear “See no one cares that your gone, I am your only love” He has to go pee Let’s me wait outside As soon as he is gone I run up to a woman “Please help I’ve been kidnapped,” She calls the police but I go back to my spot Can’t let him see Can’t let him know Sirens Sirens Sirens Off in the distance Sirens Sirens Sirens Getting closer Closer as we walk He grabs my waist Pinning me to his body I watch as the run up to him I finally free myself from his grasp The handcuffs look painful As they duck his head into the car He loved me But I didn’t love him Love is a lie that keeps us alive

Yes, A Man Like You…

Love is the lie that keeps us alive And the very thought of you not loving me, Was paralyzing not so long ago… Thinking back… oh how I begged you, Hot, salty tears seemed to stain my face for days

And you, hundreds of miles away Tucked away in your bunk… rolling on 18 wheels Further and further away from us you drive No responsibility, no one to answer to, no one to hold you accountable or responsible- For the damage you’ve done, yet again

But as I always have, I cleaned up your trash It’s difficult to convey how my heart ached for you And, quite the expense for something so sacred freely given to a man like you… The embodiment of Peter Pan

“A man like me??” I can hear you say with an arrogance only you are capable of… Yes, a man like you… with a wondering eye, and a mouth full of lies Yes, a man like you… who believes himself to be some asphalt cowboy now. Yes, a man like you… who lacks integrity, and runs from responsibility. Yes, a man like you… who abandons his wife and children. Yes, a man like you… who finds fault in everyone around him, but unable to see how ugly his own heart is. And yes, I could go on….

I often wonder what it is you see when you look at yourself in the mirror. Do you recognize yourself? Or do you want to shatter the glass because the man staring back at you is nothing more but a ghost of the man you thought you were?

There was a time when I believed I couldn’t live without you… And how I hung on to every breath you took… You were my epitome of perfection… Even then, I was blind to your obvious infidelities And deaf to your secrets, screaming into my ears But I see you now…

You my love… Were a mean spirited trick, played on me like when I was a child- You my love… Were nothing more but smoke and mirrors- You my love… Were always a liar- Always a cheat… Always a coward… Always a quitter… Always a runner… And never a real man…

I can pick up the pieces of my heart and time will heal the parts of me you broke. How do you pick up regret though? I can’t imagine that one can. I suppose it’s something that must be carried It’s a shame you’ve got a bad back Regret can feel pretty heavy, that’s what I’ve heard anyway…

Love Is A Drug

I found out that love is a drug Now I need to look for a plug I found out that love is a drug Now I need to look for a plug Oh I found out that love is a drug Now I need to look for a plug I met her in the club Time to get close I found out that love is a drug Now I need to look for a plug Throw my heart under the rug I got too close I got too close Heartbreak heartbreak Just another heartbreak Will it ever change Who knows 🤷🏽‍♂️ The devils knocking at my front door Ima let him Bad habits ima let him in too Balling hard like a lettermen You got me intoxicated all the things that you do It’s never knew All this bad news Yeah I care about your heart You should too You be tearing me apart Like you do And I told you from the very beginning I love you Love Love Oh oh I found out that love is a drug I need to look for a plug Use my heart as a rug Got to know oh Everybody knows Dre just can’t let go Even she knows She even said so Oh no Laid up in a casket thought it was your mattress We made love then you made me die Telling me you love me Girl even the blind can see that was a lie I still fell for it because I thought you were mine I fell for your lies because I thought you were keeping me alive You gave me your heart and I didn’t know it was plastic Fake Everything goes back to k-A-Z Next thing you know you hurt me The next part you hurt me You really got my stomach turning Stabbed me in the back But my chest is were it’s burning Can feel it in my chest no beating It’s the middle of the night now I’m slurring Oh oh I found out that love is a drug Now I need to look for a plug I met her in the club She threw my heart under the rug she threw me in front of the bus I got too close