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search and destroy
by Karen Michelleone thousand words
of love and adulation
could never make up
for the simple cutting
phrase of a stranger.
and i'm not even sure
why i let myself be
brought so low by
someone i've never met,
never even spoken to.
but walking into something
i know i shouldn't have,
i am reduced to a
pile of nothingness,
when my greatest sin
was just to have a laugh
at noone's expense.
and now they ridicule
without knowing the target.
i have become two people -
one acceptable and
the other, a social outcast.
it's all taunting
for taunting's sake
and everyone seeks
to gain, but me.
i'm searching for strength
in this pile of ashes
but the lump in my throat
is only growing, rising.
and i'm losing grip.
09/25/2003 Posted on 09/25/2003
Copyright © 2024 Karen Michelle
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Christopher Shin on 09/25/03 at 01:26 AM This poem speaks to me. I am some what similiar to your description. Thank you for sharing. |
| Posted by Glenn Currier on 09/28/03 at 01:41 PM Karen, Love... your poem is sooooo evocative and somehow I think many of us can relate. I can think of similar experiences. They are little (sometimes they don't seem so little at the time) moments of insanity in an otherwise peaceful day. It just doesn't seem possible to drawn into another's darkness so easily, but it happens all too often. Your poem connects and your honesty corrects. Thank you. You are beautiful. |
| Posted by Ashok Sharda on 09/28/03 at 02:13 PM The conflict is so well presented. The fear, the dilemma, the helplessness, is so well pronounced.Talking out seems to be the only way out. With those concerned with the issue and with those concerned with the 'target'. |
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