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Whipping Boy by =Scarlettletters:iconScarlettletters:

Categories Literature > Poetry > Human Nature > Open




he won't be
your whipping boy
any longer.
he won't let you
wipe your bad dreams
on his sleeves,
or watch the lies
falling out of your mouth
like bees escaping honey.
he won't hold your hand
in the dark,
or spin angels out of your words
and swear
they are gospel.
he won't wait on your thoughts
or own your trouble,
or let your tongue
pick his bones
to the quick.
he only wants
to taste your memory,
grinding your name
through his teeth
as if
spitting out
the bad pieces...
©2009 =Scarlettletters
:iconscarlettletters:

Author's Comments

Prompt: cruel

Comments


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:iconvampmaniac:
Mood: Pain ~Vampmaniac May 23, 2009, 4:42:54 PM
A very bitter, disillusioned poem. Well written & effective.
:iconlosingmyfaith:
*losingmyfaith May 23, 2009, 6:23:21 PM
ooo, nice! I liked it. well written

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" ...he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."
:iconjust-joking:
=just-joking May 23, 2009, 6:29:08 PM
very well written :)

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:frail: "lovehurts" but "always somewhere" there's "stairway to heaven" :frail:
:iconvampireknightfan:
*vampireknightfan May 23, 2009, 7:22:43 PM
love love love this!

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--When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

--If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Big Day Out 2010 is going to be fully awesome!!!!
:iconsora-seraph:
~Sora-Seraph May 23, 2009, 7:25:26 PM
Reminds me of grinding sand between your teeth...gritty and gorgeous, with first and last lines that feel like kicks to the stomachs. J'adore.

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If the Eskimos have 100 words for love, high school students bent on your destruction have at least that many for “asshole.”
- Libba Bray

:iconvillenueve:
=Villenueve May 23, 2009, 9:21:57 PM
Excellent work love,The images transmitted are so powerful,you have expressed so well what is cruelty.

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:iconpoisonedkitty:
~Poisonedkitty May 23, 2009, 11:45:19 PM
I wonder where you get you're inspiration to write so.. Real.

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'Circling down the drain' has an appealing fun-factor to it.
:iconpoisonedkitty:
~Poisonedkitty May 23, 2009, 11:45:40 PM
*Your, my bad.

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'Circling down the drain' has an appealing fun-factor to it.
:iconartfly101:
*artfly101 May 24, 2009, 8:08:25 AM
That was good, well written:)
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