The Guilt Within

A dark poem about living with our past

The Guilt Within 

Written By: Eric Fraley   AKA: SeemsPoetic

...G u i l t

It's the aftermath of a broken past

It  haunts us with those lifeless memories it never tends to lack

So much happiness in the present

But it never tends to last

Always so damn malevolent

It's like we are barefoot surrounded by all this shattered glass

We try to escape it but it takes its stabs

At our souls

Get it

Cuz under our feet we have the ragged edges and bladed cracks

Its serrations maxed and yet

living up to everyone's expectations is what we're tasked

It seems the pressure on our two feet is raised

Cuz the weight of the world is now on our goddamn backs

Please don't be amazed when I grow up

If I blow up those damn bridges again and again

Watch em’ burn

To oblivion

Right where I cast away my past

But here's the darkest question I was ever asked

Can you kill what has already passed?

Or...

Is it always there staring back at us

Through the mirror

Hidden away behind our smiling mask

Guess our hearts oblivion

and...

Our past is back once more to live again

Our present's once again undone

Guilt trapped within

Even the most shameless of men

So much so...

For some…

It's what made them take their lives and cause their end

But…

Sad to say

They don't come back to life again….

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Author's Note

Ignore grammar problems.

Reviews

[ElizaB]

Hey,

Thanks for entering my competition.

I like your form; it reminds me of a rap song. Whilst I was reading I couldn't help feel a natural rhythm accompanying your words. I could hear the beat in my mind. I think way you portrayed your language visually upon the page with the use of slang and the colloquial tone added to this.

I wonder, do you write songs?... I know poetry is a form of song writing; only in an acapella style usually. If you don't, I think you would be good at it.

Keep writing!

Eliza

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

wow remarkable write, thanks for entering this into my greatest fear competition, good luck i really felt youro emotion

[Walter Millenbruck]

This is how life has been for me

[Michaela Moerke]

I loved this poem, it speaks truth and makes the reader acknowledge everything they have done in their life