Swallowed My Pain

Swallowed My Pain

A Poem by Bethany Woody

Swallowed my pain

And pills from a bottle

With a fifth of Jack

Or maybe it was Jose

I can’t remember

And it doesn’t matter anyway.

 

 

Sitting here drifting

Through the motions

Of dying

No more crying

No longer alone

My demons have come to take me home.

 

 

Such sorrow I see

In the eyes of his lies

Reflected in the tears

From faces above

As everyone prays

To save me from hell filled days.

 

 

But hell can’t hurt me

I lived in it everyday

At the hands of a man

Supposed to love unconditionally

But not in the night when he came

To offer nothing but pain.

 

 

So I swallowed my pain

And pills from a bottle

With a fifth of Jack

Or maybe it was Jose

I can’t remember

And it doesn’t matter anyway.

 

© 2008 Bethany Woody


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Relating is not living the life of pain. I felt like tears were
going to well up inside me for this poem. My heart goes out
to a person that has to live or has lived in this way.

Very sad poem Beth. Thanks for sharing a part of you.

Kelley

Posted 15 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

I know I can relate very well to this piece... we find pleasure in sinnful things to fill the void.

But hell can't hurt me
I lived in it everyday

Ahhh and I know this all to well...

and intense and emotional piece.

Posted 15 Years Ago


1 of 2 people found this review constructive.

this is an amazing poem. Wow, is really all i can say. a very painful piece filled with emotion. great work.

Posted 15 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

i really love this poem. i can relate as so many others. pain and sorrow, isolation and heart break, they all come through clearly. wonderful read.

Posted 15 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.


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Added on September 20, 2008

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Bethany Woody
Bethany Woody

Atlanta, GA



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This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,- The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty. Her message is committed To hands I cannot see; For love of her, sweet .. more..

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