Love can be painful
Like a barbed wire wrapped heart
Bleeding and broken
Challenging love’s commitment
To withstand human weakness
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Tag Archives: heartbroken
Speckled With The Blood Of Lies
Speckled with the blood of lies,
Blindly consumed by your feigned sincerity.
You said you loved me,
Sealing it with a tender kiss,
Only to pierce my lip with your fangs.
The trickle,
Wet and metallic,
Oxidizing on my tongue
Nauseates me to the core.
Sickening,
Sweet,
Irony,
Descriptively you.
Pledging passion and fidelity
Then pillaging my love,
Disemboweling my trust,
Leaving a heartbroken corpse.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Suffer the Consequences – A Tanka
With a tender touch
I tried to quiet your tears
You pushed me away
This was of my own doing
Now it is me who suffers
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Ransom My Heart – A Tanka
I gifted my heart
So many years ago now
Like priceless treasure
Cherished and highly prized
Then held for ransom
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Strength to Overcome
Sadness, quiet, eerie blows,
On garnished leaves to where who knows,
A fall from grace in painful throes,
To die in forlorn anonymity.
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Acrid tears fall on arid plain,
O’er rock and berm toward sea of flame,
Where passion burns lone side disdains,
A heart in mangled perpetuity.
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Asphyxiated soul, torrid and weak,
Heaves vital breath for redolence to seek,
Speechless and winded, powerless to speak,
In silence thy sentience doth flicker.
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These stolid misfortunes no more shall they hinder,
Gathered in bushel– cloaked as barren split tinder,
Leaving the past a hoard of smoldering cinders,
With courage, volition sustains.
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Gone
The light fails me,
I open my eyes,
Hoping to see more clearly,
But there is no focus.
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Nothing is as is should be,
My head hurts in the painful quiet,
There is no comfort,
In this cold empty bed.
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I drove me to this madness,
And you, away in disgust,
I didn’t try to stop you,
Stubbornly shunning you.
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Your tears did not deter,
I swore you’d be back,
How could you live without me,
After all these years.
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But emptiness speaks volumes,
Shouting your answer,
“I’m gone!”
On my once deaf ears.
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Stolen Heart – A Tanka
Hostage to passion
I open my heart to you
Like a treasure chest
Only to find it emptied
Riches callously stolen
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
The Storm – A Tanka
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Awakened from dreams
Drenched in cold sweat, thoughts of you
Spin like a typhoon
A path of devastation
Left in the wake of heartbreak
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Cold, Cold Heart – A Tanka
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The gray sky, clouds hover
Looks like another snow day
Cold, harsh, unfeeling
You left me for another
Shattering my heart like ice
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Suffocation – A Tanka
Your blanket of lies
Pulled tightly around my head
Suffocating trust
Killing, what I thought we shared
Sun, moon and the air we breathe
~~ D. R, DiFrancesco ~~
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