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What is betrayal
Ended August 13, 2016 • 9 Entries • Created by BowsBeforeProse
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What is betrayal
Cover image for post Crimson Blood of Betrayal, by sandflea68
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sandflea68 in Poetry & Free Verse
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Crimson Blood of Betrayal

Your musky scent was clothed in magic

I breathed your scent and backstroked

through your crimson blood of betrayal.

I turned my face to your sun

and saw your beauty as you promised

me the world on your platter.

The sobs of your wind laughed at my pain.

My nights with you burned quickly

as I drank you with my eyes

gulping your music in my hunger.

I felt your tarnished knife in my back,

my exposed rouge wounds dripping.

My universe trembled as you

were lying and I was dying alone.

You went back to your other life

tossing me like a used shirt

into your hamper of deceit.

Empty air washes off your taste

from my soul as my heart marches on,

refuse pile of bittersweet memories,

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What is betrayal
Cover image for post One Thousand Betrayals, by YAngeL
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YAngeL in Poetry & Free Verse
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One Thousand Betrayals

Betrayal is our picture, face down in a drawer.

It's my Facebook page, with no trace of you.

It's your name on my lips in a stranger's bed.

It's the bad choices we've made,

it's what we do.

Betrayal is the 29th day of April.

It's that fear that sent you running far away.

It's the shattered pieces of every single

promise that you broke.

It's the keys you left after you swore to stay.

Betrayal is your phone and all your secrets.

It's a safety measure, never give love your all.

It's your need for validation, it's ego, it's fear.

It's your foolish pride, it'll go when you fall.

Betrayal is my old house on the corner.

It's pulling you

down

while I

fall

into

madness

Betrayal is the match I lit blowing up my life.

It's the reckless, restless ways

we run from sadness.

Betrayal is the last letter you wrote me.

It's a binder full of prettily worded lies.

It's building me up, knowing

You'll knock me right back down.

It's the cold, unfeeling ice in your blue eyes.

Betrayal is the longest day without you.

It's another sleepless night all alone.

You used to wake me from my nightmares.

Betrayal is my heart turning to stone.

Betrayal is a dirt road in the desert.

It's my name on your lips in a stranger's bed.

It's our passions colliding

in the backseat of my car.

It's my fear you'd feel relief if I was dead...

Betrayal is a shot of cinnamon whiskey.

It's fanning flames never meant to burn.

It's being left to clean a mess

I didn't make alone.

It's my own damn fault, I never fucking learn.

Betrayal is that empty house we'd visit.

It's pushing too far past your comfort zone.

It's my legs around your waist,

it's your mouth fused to mine.

It's a Texas girl with no demons of her own.

Betrayal is the way I felt protected.

It's the trust I blindly gave you like a fool.

It's the secrets that I told you

in the middle of the night.

It's the ugly way we both tend to get cruel.

Betrayal is planning for the future.

You made it crystal clear just where I stand.

It's forbidden lust awakened then abandoned.

It's a one way ticket to Texas in your hand.

Betrayal is a frozen margarita.

It's a party, a river, a cookout, it's all so fun.

It's my makeup, it's your cat shirts,

it's our phony plastic smiles.

It's the hateful, ungrateful ways

we're both searching for numb.

Betrayal is a vow made on a cell phone.

It's a snapchat sent, hoping you'll come back.

It's sitting around waiting for a call

that doesn't come.

It's the passive aggressive ways we both attack.

Betrayal is a promise of forever.

It's the ghost of your hand

sliding up my thigh.

Betrayal's what we give,

it's how we've always lived.

We'll betray the ones who love us

until we die.

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What is betrayal
Cover image for post Poison, by NyxNight
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NyxNight in Poetry & Free Verse
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Poison

Betrayal is is your toxic tongue,

Tangling with mine,

Venom seeping in.

Everyday you tell my the same sweet words,

Tainted with your poison,

It tricks me every time.

For everyday you kiss my lips with yours,

I'm not the only one they've touched.

Betrayal is a hideous, spiteful snake,

Disguised as a lover (a friend).

The devil may be beautiful (charming),

That's why it hurts so much

(Betrayed never comes from enemies)

Betrayal is a sharp, sudden, painful stab to the heart,

It doesn't end,

It lasts (pain lingers).

Hearing soft, loving words from your green lips (painted pink),

Listening to you fool another,

Realising the lies I thought were truths.

Betrayal brings hate; anger; pain; self-loathing (why did I believe...)

Betrayal scars,

Reminds us that it happened because we trusted (I loved...)

It's the only truth that sticks!

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What is betrayal
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perhapsless in Poetry & Free Verse
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b e t r a y a l

betrayal is realizing

that the one you love

and the one you trust

and the one you care about

didn't return the favor.

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What is betrayal
Cover image for post Betray another day!, by Vyxyn
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Vyxyn in Poetry & Free Verse
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Betray another day!

Under love contract we

Years together and a child,

became a family of three

All these and trust.

But where was he?

Called his office,

Called his cell

No one answered

It was hell!

Then a woman, stranger she

Answered his cell one day

Hmm said me.

Suddenly all the pieces of the puzzle fit into place,

The missed calls, and all those times

Looks like I am being replaced!

Mmm, that's alright, that's ok, let's see how long you live to betray another day!

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What is betrayal
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Winston in Poetry & Free Verse
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What is Betrayal

Betrayal

It comes when you least expect it

It taints perfection 

It rips it tears

It's ruthless

It's cunning

It causes pain that is worse than death

It is lies

It is unfaithful

It plays by it's own rules

Betrayal

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What is betrayal
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EriduSerpent in Poetry & Free Verse
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Betrayal

Easy, often, man

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