Tag Archives: cruelty

Poisoned Chalice

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Helen

To open up my heart – a thing to learn for me As though another’s glance would yet return for me My splintered feelings prick you like a thorny rose And yet I bid your love be soft as fern for … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged Aspiration, cruelty, lost love, Love, Musings, pain, passion, regret, Relationships, Spiritual | 11 Comments

Someone To Watch Over Me

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Helen

Strapped down I am only completely aware of the lethal grasp of restraints, scratching as though alive, on my skin. He says, you will feel great energy and pain, just for a moment. You must bite down on the cloth … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Prose | Tagged cruelty, dark, denial, dissociation, Dreams, electric shock therapy, mind control, trauma, truth | 11 Comments

Three

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Helen

Three times your name Three times the same Only difference Was the game First watched from afar Second casual and bizarre Third a foreign, twisted star Three times one heart Three ways apart Different endings Different start Three times your … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged cruelty, dark, denial, game, pain, passion, Relationships, strangeness | 9 Comments

To…?

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Helen

I ache Within Stricken with a hunger I cannot name On the tip of my tongue It tantalizes A memory of the lost Do you haunt me still? You seemed so gone I blessed the relief Found an ordinary life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged crime, cruelty, dark, denial, dissociation, Dreams, madness, pain, regret, Relationships, truth | 9 Comments

Vlad – The Original Vampire

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Helen

Classic story told Ancient warrior turned god of the darkest kind Blood now is the life Pain etched on the palest face driven by this thirst Perfect allegory perhaps, of a need profound, banishing all light Once proud man of … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged classics, cruelty, dark, history, horror, Musings, pain, vampire, Vlad, warrior, writing | 3 Comments

Some things we shouldn’t tolerate….

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Helen

Why is it, in our modern world, we seem so tolerant of bad behaviour? Nowadays it seems if you are going to be a bastard, the trick is to get in first. It puts you above the reach of anyone … Continue reading →

Posted in Conversation, Fire | Tagged behaviour, Bullies, cruelty, cyber bullying, evil, intolerance, judgement, opinions, power, social norms | 2 Comments

Confidences

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Helen

Do you recall the secrets that we told In wine-lit moments as the day would end? I wonder at our courage then so bold To bare such precious thoughts to just a friend The weight of such a confidence is … Continue reading →