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Write a poem based around the theme of Shattered Trust.
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As your arms wrapped around my body,
I thought to myself, what more do I need?
Feelings of love, feelings of safety consumed my body
Breaking down every rational thought I had
I heard the tone of your voice,
And every single word you said
And thought to myself,
Is this coming from the same body I hold every night?
My stomach dropped and suddenly, I lost my words
How long was I blind?
The idea o...
I am my father’s favorite daughter
I am weaker, perhaps on purpose
I am quiet,
obedience is virtue.
I do not push him off
I do not yell
Humility warms my veins
and his hands and his fingers
He caresses my hair usually
He does not for my brothers
For they push shove and scream
Unconscionable resistance
I am my father’s favorite daughter and my mothers tears
He does not love her like he loves ...
imagine this
since you’re so
emotionally dull
and can’t tell what i mean
imagine
that this car window
is my trust
it’s whole
and smooth
and safe
now,
have you seen
those tools
you use
to break the window
in case of an emergency?
you didn’t wait for an emergency
you struck it
into the window,
my trust
and it shattered
you did it intentionally
for fun
and now, this window
can’t protect yo...
Looking at you doesn’t feel right
My gaze so cold yet you remain unphased
I can’t recognize you like I’m looking through stained glass, my view of you turns foggy
“I thought I meant more to you than that!”
Words feel useless, it’s not like you care anyway
“Yeah I thought so too.”
Looking at you makes it hard to breathe
Like I’m running after you in an endless game of tag
But I’m always the one ...
We followed you.
Every stepping stone you said to walk on
bouncing from one to another
Back and forth you said,
“Till you reach to the other side”
Oh how we had hung onto every word.
And repeated them, just. like. you…
But then we saw the ugly truth.
We would never be welcomed here.
If you knew, if _they_ knew.
You would look in disgust as we walked out the door,
The door which you woul...
I’m unstable.
I’ve known it for a while,
Every admitted to it a few times.
But never really…
Never accepted it,
Never realized what that meant.
And what does it mean?
It means that I got on my bus satisfied,
Got off the bus pissed,
Practiced viola feeling like a freaking queen,
And ended up on my floor feeling empty.
And nothing important
Or even different than usual happened.
It means that someti...
In the depths of a heart once pure and true,
Lies the fragments of trust, broken askew.
Promises shattered, like glass on the floor,
Leaving behind scars that ache to the core.
A bond once strong, now fragile and frail,
Betrayal's sting, like a bitter gale.
Words that were spoken with love and care,
Now echo with doubt, hanging in the air.
The foundation of trust, once sturdy and strong,
Now cru...
mere weeks ago we were best friends
but all i think of now are the sad ends
of conversations that lasted hours,
and friendship felt like flowers
in the middle of a dying field
now it’s been torn to never be healed,
like a page out of the book of our lives,
in mine a whole chapter, in yours, some simple lonely lines....
An ally that I thought I had
I could only see the good, not bad
At first it showed itself so suddenly
Now all I see is a truth so ugly
You made us think that we were wrong
Covering up your shame so long
As we questioned why we were so awful
To think that you were good and lawful
You fooled us once, but not again
I cannot trust you, I won’t pretend
You want it back and I can’t give so eas...
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