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Suspicion
Write a poem with a structured rhyme scheme, based on this theme.
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Used to trust each other,
No doubt we have a good time.
One day those negatives occurred,
Selfish, fakement plus dishonest, and more.
Separated us from each other.
Replaced with suspicion,
distrust, feel strange to close friends…
We still believe in the power of love,
Hope one day can trust each other again....
I look out the door
And it’s there no more.
What could it be?
Someone’s here for me.
Its lurking in the trees
Or maybe it’s in the peas;
It knocks at night
Giving me much fright.
Could it be a bear?
Or just the air?
I sit and stare
Calm and in prayer.
I begin to prepare
If it dares,
And I dredge
With my hand on knife’s edge....
Nothing is right
Everything has something wrong
People call me crazy
But I know my mind is sound and strong
Don’t lie to me and say it’s fine
Because I know you’ve twisted it
No matter what it is
There’s something wrong, even just a little bit
Hiding, lying, sneaking
Something is always going on behind the scenes
Intentions matter not
You did bad things and used corrupt means
Know I don’t tr...
The fingers of suspicion finished pointing
before the hands had started to applaud
the knuckles bared like teeth that needed filling
the nails hardly blunter than his sword
Her trust had not survived the last confession
It left a taste that clung to every word
And nothing he could do would stop the burning
Though it was undersaid and overheard.
The trouble with suspicion is it lingers
Hangs a...
You know when
Your suspicion
It’s the way you
Your act
Around people all the
Time the
Way you walk that
You can
Tell right out the
Back for
Some people in
This world
The tone of your
Voice when
Some ask you
A question
You get all shaking
Up and
Get nervous in
Sweating really
really really bad
That when
You...
Arms too skinny
Face too hollow
Legs too boney
The faraway look in your eyes is hard to follow
Wide smile as plastic as a doll
Stomache not showing any meat at all
Hazel eyes artificially bright
Actions mechanically performed
Words twisted with a bitter edge
What’s this strange though making me feel alarmed?
Kitchen pantry fully stocked all month
It’s like all this time you’ve never eaten lunch...
In shadows deep, where doubts doth ever dwell,
Suspicion's poison spreads its venom wide.
A seed of mistrust, it doth grow and swell,
A specter haunting hearts on every side.
'Tis like a serpent, coiled within the breast,
Whispering secrets, sowing seeds of fear.
Friendship and love, by doubt are put to test,
And trust, once strong, doth slowly disappear.
The eyes doth wander, seeking hidden lie...
Heart racing, thoughts falling,
Pretending to be sleeping,
I try not to lose trust,
Think he’s with another bust,
His love I am losing,
Or not, but I am trusting
He won’t ever choose lust,
On our love, has fallen dust,
Or has it? That’s the thing,
I don’t know if it’s a fling
Or if he’s true and just.
Under the door comes a gust,
Up the stairs, a thudding,
The door opens, loudly creaking,
In he co...
You know,
There’s a difference between
Swamps
And Oceans.
Swamps have over hanging trees
That shed their exterior
Into shallow water
That murks with mud and moss.
Overgrown roots
Weave through like a maze,
A maze that only the swamp’s inhabitants
Can navigate.
The rotting air
Looms with fog
Almost trying to hide
The swamps ugliness.
Mere few can find things
That are lovable about the swamp,
Such...
There’s a lump in my throat
In more ways than one
Above my epiglottis
Near the bottom of my tongue
It’s an unfamiliar presense
That wasn’t there before
Putting weight on my esophagus
Shaking me to my core
I poke and prod and ponder
What this mystery lump might be
And it sinks down to my stomach
As the answer comes to me
I imagine IV fluids
Pumping through the bruised up vien
Of a pale exhau...