POEM STARTER

Write a poem about a lie that spirals out of control.

Consider the structures and devices you could use to show the repetition and amplification of the lie.

Red

The day we wed.

You were dressed in red.

I could feel my heart stop when I see you from down the aisle.

The moment I thought we would be together forever.

I never thought the day were you were in red.


Your lies bled through our home.

The home we shared.

The home we raised our children in.

And yet how will I tell the children.

That you lie.

You lie about loving me.

You lied about forever hold our peace.

There was no peace that night.

The children were away.

I caught you with my sister.

The one person I believed in.

The person who raised me.

The person who was there when my parents didn’t care.

I thought of the day you were dressed in red.

To thin your lights were tainted in a glass door.

Seeping to fall out.


At that moment my mind went out.

As I hear my sister call out my name.

I look at her with fury!

Instead of you wearing red.

The room was red.

The sheets were tainted a crimson to be said.

I look in my hands.

I see a kitchen knife.

Strands of hair fall from you head.

As I took your life.

Next thing I knew you were dead.

Sirens filled my ears.

Flashes of blue and red Fill the windows.

The brights light caught my attention.

My eyes widen.

Before I knew it.

I took my life.

Till death do us part.

Now we were both tainted in red.

The red connected to you and me.

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