I wish there was a handbook
On how to trust again
A way to figure out
Who is honest as a friend
I have been lied to
And I have been hurt
I guess I need to look up
How to let go again
Because I need to lose
The pain
The anger
The tears
The past
But if I forget it all
Wont it just happen again
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – handbook
You said hello,
I was intrigued.
You said you wanted to help,
I was taken in.
You said you’d be there,
Was that a lie?
You said you cared,
Was it all an elaborate trick?
You said you were sorry,
Did you even mean it?
You said goodbye,
Maybe it was a blessing in disguise.
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – trick
You were my friend
Or so you often said
But time and time again
You proved that statement wrong
You regurgitated the same words
Over and over each time thinking
That they would lose the stench
Of the lies they carried with them
But you only used me
You got what you needed
Maybe you did help me out
As you schemed along the way
But ultimately it was you who lost
Someone who was a true friend
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – regurgitate
(TY PP😉)
Glancing responses
Laden with sarcasm
Insincerity and
Blatant lies
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – glib
You did it again
Made me feel
Less than three inches tall
Your allegations
Your venomous words
Only caught you back in the same old lie
You promised
You said so
But it was all empty words again
I fell for it
I was suckered again
And you still got your vodka for the night
But in the end
The lies too much
Drove me away and you to death
The empty bottle
Lays by the bed
As the mortician removed your body
Written for Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) – allegation
(photo from Google images)
More and more
Of the words
Spewing from his mouth
Are flat out lies
In my eyes
I see no more
Credibility in his words
He might as well
Be speaking gibberish
Because it means
So little any more
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – credibility
I’m a pretty easy-going person
I have a lot of patience
And I can tolerate a lot
But I do hate one thing
It is not your inability to quit
it is not the shell of your former self
it never was you
but the demon that controlled you
forced you to lie
forced to keep drinking
forced you to walk away
the demon that ended your life
I hate that alcoholism
Took you away forever
From a daughter that needed you
And from me who still loved
The man drowning in the bottle
Written for Fandango’s Dog Days of August (FDDA) # 19 – hate
(picture from Google search)
I just can’t believe it
I’m so angry I could spit
You broke your promise again
I feel like I can never win
Shattered dreams in the night
Hoping it will work out right
You swore this time you wouldn’t do it
But I sit here watching you get lit
You’re past the all night partying age
Your latest lie gives me pure rage
Shattered dreams in the night
Hoping it will work out right
The last straw that broke my back
Was because of compassion you lack
My mom’s death didn’t keep you sober
That’s when I knew it was over
Shattered dreams in the night
Hoping it will work out right
You kept drinking all day
No matter what I’d say
I couldn’t watch you slowly die
I was tired of my nightly cry
Shattered dreams in the night
Hoping it will work out right
And in a short time
You were no longer mine
You died in your bed
Still with demons in your head
Shattered dreams in the night
Nothing about this was right
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – rage
He lied again
Right to my face
Said he was at the bar
It’s his hiding place
He lies all the time
Drinks night and day
And spend hours away
Doing what I can’t say
I’m now past the point
Of angry and mad
Irate is the emotion
I suddenly had
I won’t do this anymore
I have had enough
Out the door he goes
With all of his stuff
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – irate
Disingenuous
Insincere about his love
He lied to my face
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – disingenuous
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