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Write a poem or letter to your ex, what would you say / ask if you had the chance. Would you tell them you love them? Would you be angry? Or would you simply just ask for their moms fish taco recipe (true story) what have you been holding back?
Ended May 9, 2016 • 2 Entries • Created by DaniciaTari
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Write a poem or letter to your ex, what would you say / ask if you had the chance. Would you tell them you love them? Would you be angry? Or would you simply just ask for their moms fish taco recipe (true story) what have you been holding back?
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Deiticlast in Poetry & Free Verse

A Letter to “Her”

I guess the first thing I wanna say is, "Fuck you."

The second would be that I miss you.  In the mornings when I'm first waking up, on the verge between this world and Orpheus' Domain, I can lay there content, because I *know* that you are there, because I can smell your hair on my pillow.  And then in one jarring moment, the memories come flooding back and I fucking hate you for doing this to me.

I hate you for making me fall in love with you.  I didn't want to, you know.  I just wanted to be your friend, to expand my world views by just one more point of contact with the rest of humanity.  But you're insidious, you malicious devil.  You got under my skin, plied me with sex, and whispered into my ear all of the things that I wanted to hear.

And you made me love you.  You made me fall for your infectious smile.  You made me want to stare into your beautiful emerald eyes for eternity.  You made me want to be with you until my last dying breath.  You made me want to be a better version of myself--a version I didn't even know was possible.

You made me smile.  For once in my life, I felt true happiness when I was around you.  When I wasn't with you, you made me want to meld myself to you, our skin becoming one, sharing one breath and one body.  When we made love, we did this thing--and it was perfection.  Heaven came to Earth and our bodies were of the Divine.

And you killed me.  My heart aches to the point of death: this anvil sitting on my chest so that I cannot breathe.  I can't eat, I can't sleep, and my eyes burn from the tears that I've shed.  You made me love you, but you dashed it all away--the perfection marred, ragged rips and unhealed scars upon my heart in the shape of your perfectly manicured nails.

Why did you do this to me?  Why ruin my solitary existence?  Why rob me of my sweet, blissful ignorance and give me a taste of that verboden, the happiness that only those in love share?  Why show me this, and then rip it all away?  You know I was content in my loneliness.  You know that my emotions had been walled up behind a stark wall of logic, built brick-by-brick by my schoolmates and those who shunned me as a child.

But then you ripped down those walls, and the flood was let out, and I am drowned.

I miss you. . .

Fuck you. . .

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Write a poem or letter to your ex, what would you say / ask if you had the chance. Would you tell them you love them? Would you be angry? Or would you simply just ask for their moms fish taco recipe (true story) what have you been holding back?
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Vyxyn in Poetry & Free Verse

Dear Ex

Thank you.

Thank you for the beautiful children you left.

They are the best gifts I could've ever gotten.

Thank you for leaving us alone while they were growing up, it made it so much easier stress wise.

Thank you for letting me live the night you almost killed me. Thanks for just leaving me with Epilepsy.

I'm so grateful to you for leaving and staying gone, the kids and I have had such a great life so much better than you ever would have provided.

Now comes the time for reparation, but then you've

already met Karma haven't you? Yes she can be a real BITCH!

My ex lives in a nursing home now. He's only 54yr, but has MS. and seizures.

Gosh wonder how that happened?

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