Half A Dozen Lashes

by WildBlueSun

in Works in Progress

Half A Dozen Lashes

Crack!
Ripping me open.
Crack!
The scars won’t ever fade.
Crack!
Can’t hold back tears.
Crack!
Leaking all over the floor.
Crack!
This won’t change a thing.
Crack!
And don’t you dare say you love me.

Finally, it’s over.
Half a dozen lashes of the tongue.

Description

Moved to WIPs after I received critique and edited A LOT. Final, finished poem can be found here.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me.

LIAR.

Wounds close, bruises fade, bones meld, you can be healed.Words can never be unsaid.

My mum was yelling at me and I felt crap, so I wrote this. Hence, it is crap. But it might amuse you.

Preview image © costumeholidayhouse.com
Text © me

Comments

Shoku Says:

Wow, that is good. I really like how you took the whole whipping thing and turned it into "lashings of the tongue". Very neat idea.

AnB Says:

wow.

Nanook Says:

The poem, admittedly, doesn't quite appeal to my senses as it should, but the use of irony is skillful, and the preview image is really quite attractive.
Unless that's totally weird of me...

Cookiedust Says:

I like!
Clever use of words, madam.

Smiling Devil Says:

I like it^^, it's definitly not your best, but it's not bad either^^.