To be trustworthy
Means choosing intimacy.
And winning my heart.
Primal Masquerade
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: anger, betrayal, change, choices, decisions, denial, fear, haiku, heart, hurt, integrity, intimacy, love, mask, masks, poem, poetry, relationships, self awareness, self esteem, self worth, trauma, trust, truth
Holy Matrimony
12 May 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: abuse, anger, betrayal, decisions, denial, disappointment, end, fake, fear, haiku, holy, hurt, husband, integrity, letting go, lies, loss, love, man, marriage, pain, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, self esteem, self worth, silence, trauma, trust, truth, vows, wife
Your need for power
Trumps the vows you spoke to me.
I stand defeated.
Six Months Later…
27 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: anger, betrayal, chabad Poway, death, decisions, epidemic, faith, fear, God, grief, haiku, hate, heal, healing, hurt, integrity, jewish, Jewish people, Judaism, life, loss, love, mass shootings, pain, peace, Pittsburgh shooting, poem, poet, poetry, pray, prayer, remember, stop hate, strength, trauma, tree of life synagogue, truth
Did you know their names?
Or are we nothing but goats
Meant to bear your rage?
Ambivalent Heart
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: ambivalent, anger, betrayal, choices, decisions, forgive, forgiveness, grief, haiku, heal, healing, heart, hope, hurt, integrity, learning, lies, love, man, missing, pain, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, time, trust, truth, unconditional love, woman, women
Still feeling angry.
Still feeling hurt and betrayed.
But damn! I miss you.
Wall of Stone
17 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: abuse, anger, betrayal, denial, disappointment, endings, fear, grief, haiku, heart, hurt, pain, poem, poet, poetry, silence, waiting
Beaten by silence,
But behind that wall lives rage.
Which one wounds me most?
It’s Only a Paper Moon
04 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: anger, betrayal, choice, decisions, denial, dignity, facade, family, forgiveness, Freedom, haiku, lies, poem, poetry, secrets
Mystery solved.
Bloodlines don’t bind like secrets.
You know that I know.
Aggravated Alliteration
02 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: alliteration, betrayal, friend, Friends, haiku, lotalty, poem, poetry
Loyalty is love
Fickle friends find you folly
Beware betraying
Wanted for Murder
07 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: anger, betrayal, breakup, haiku, heart, hurt, love, poem, poetry
Remember that day?
You know, that day in July?
You killed me that day.
The Ties That Blind
06 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: anger, betrayal, breakup, control, haiku, hurt, loss, love, manipulation, poem, poetry
“Darling, I love you.
I will not be vulnerable.”
Manipulation.
