Haunted

[Sara Tonin]

Just another insult
you're yelling my way
I'll let it roll off
as usual.

You tried being nice
wanted it for yourself, so badly
but nice isn't your nature
and the stench of
the "real you"
couldn't be covered with sugar

You're the master of
talking to my back
because I won't see you
yet,
I hear your hate
for me
it haunts me.

Yeah, you hurt me today
are you satisfied?
does it make you feel warm inside?
You're a shell of a person
"rattling chains" of the past
a ghost that can't leave
the place where it's life ended.

Continue haunting
if you must,
I've gotten good at pretending
that you're not frightening.

 

[Sugar Ant]

wow!

 

[Sweetpea]

! I bet you have a sharp tongue, if not I know a sharp mind- nice analogies

 

[iLoveYouWithaKnife]

As soon as I read the first line-
I was able to put myself in the place of this piece.
I love when I can do that.
This was great!

 

[Sara Tonin]

Thank you for your replies

In writing this, I gathered up old feelings from being stalked years ago by an ex-boyfriend and recent feelings resulting from being verbally assulted by an ex-friend. This is the painful product.

People can haunt us, whether it's in our minds or in our daily lives. Just because we declare them "dead" to us, it doesn't necessarily make them go away...