POEM STARTER
Title your poem after someone you have felt profoundly influenced by in your life.
It doesn’t have to be someone you know personally, but the poem should reflect why this person is important to you, even if it is not directly about them.
Justice of Debts
Checked,
Check,
Mate.
I’d been played,
The one who caved,
In on your unpaid plans,
Still yet to be made.
To think you could be saved,
By the split personalities
You’ve so carefully made.
My womb wasn’t enough
For the babies I bore—
You didn’t change,
Though I tried to restore,
Only to find myself drained.
Checked,
Check,
Mate.
With a mused mind,
Barren behind the eyes,
Typed in curved,
Shouting in slurred words—
Palms full of rage.
In mummy’s grasp,
You became her missing rib,
Building an emotional hardship.
And as the law will glower upon me,
My debts, now paid,
Will always become yours.
In the Lord’s law,
Positioned below,
You’ll be treated no better,
Singing your tales of woe.
Checkmate.
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