Tag Archives: betrayal

The Promise

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Helen

He made the promise to you One perfect springtime morn His words they were so precious So much to wish upon How could you know by summer That he’d be gone? Your dress it was so pretty He said beyond … Continue reading →

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Web

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Helen

These tears I’ve shed Are trapped within your spider’s web Like silver sparkling in light What hurts the most Can most delight This trap you laid Seemed too beguiling, unafraid I swept within your cold embrace The sweetest fruit Has … Continue reading →

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Corrosion

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Helen

For years you slowly ate The heart of me The purest of my fruit Fell to your cold decay A thief within the night You showed such cruelty But coward, you would hide At quiet break of day For years you … Continue reading →

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Regret

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Helen

Within our town the shutters drawn Tell tales without our words No prescience could yet have barred Such crimes as here occurred Where once mere kindness might have lived Companion to our hearts Here now the winter’s deeper chill Ensures … Continue reading →

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Bloomed – for Prompt 71 – Why Me?

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Helen

I bloomed late And rather disconsolate Not inclined To intimacy or to Co-habitate But in those brittle years At any rate I rose my eyes above My fear and gazed I lived apart An owner of a fractured heart Too … Continue reading →

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Loved

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Helen

I loved you once To power fell A brittle neck A deeper hell I loved you twice I made my claim I changed my life I changed my name I loved you thrice You turned away You said I lied … Continue reading →

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Tarnished -for Prompt 23 – Anais Nin Quotes

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Helen

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” Anais … Continue reading →

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Guinevere’s Lament

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Helen

You will know my name As betrayal, infamy Great love forsaken for greater passion And a hidden intimacy Remembered in myth and legend And by scholars here discussed As though this did not happen To just people, to just us Songs … Continue reading →

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Awaken

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Helen

Awaken now at this first bitter light Survey a scene of all these lives betrayed Abomination to the very sight Lost each and every chance we had to save Remember this, the vows you can’t set right The lies you … Continue reading →

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I Am Done, I Am Spent

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Helen

I am done I am spent I do not care about Your intent And like your actions I won’t relent All you say Don’t even try All explanations Are simply lies Even this Your dull surprise As you chose To … Continue reading →

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