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You Or Nothing


You were more trouble than you were worth You only knew how to treat people like dirt Nothing really to offer the world, just a child with too many toys You are incapable to building anything, you only know how to destroy Your enabling parental units foolishly tried to build you up Didn’t they realize that you were borderline psychotic or just half a nut? You ask so many stupid questions and none of them truly have a point You don’t seem to realize that people around you are really getting annoyed You are also judgmental to others and that is not an attractive trait You claim to have so much love but you are really filled with so much hate You hide behind religion but you really are a wretched lost soul You only bring misery in every single place that you go You put people through the ringer, with an endless stream of abuse You will soon throw them away, when they no longer have any use Someone should really call you out on all of the nasty things that you do This is why nobody likes you or has any real use for you You are just a troubled adult/child who never grew up When I think of all of the time I wasted with you, I throw up in disgust Rambling on and on for hours and hours on the phone I soon realized after being with you, I would much rather be alone Selfish, spoiled, enabled and self absorbed, you say it’s all about you I really tried to believe otherwise but I was just being a fool Your family will continue to stand by you because there is nothing else that they can do But if it’s You Or Nothing, I chose nothing instead of you From Broken and Burned Bridges Copyright 2020 Resisting Distress Publishing
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Paul Ryerson

I am a writer who writes poetry & plays. I have also written a short film & I created an animated series on You Tube. Included on Power Poetry are seventy poems from my five poetry collections, Rhymes With A Reason, Too Much Unwanted Noise, Broken and Burned Bridges, Dying On The Inside and Fool’s Gold and Fool’s Paradise

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Deeply personal attack on specific individual; autobiographical relationship narrative.

SparseMeasureDense

Multiple accusations, complaints, judgments packed densely throughout; relentless idea density.

DarkSentimentBright

Intensely negative; contempt, disgust, rejection permeate every line.

StillEnergyExplosive

Explosive accusatory voice; aggressive phrasing, abrupt declarations, escalating intensity.

MicroLengthEpic

24 lines; falls in 31-60 range accounting for couplet structure.

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Minimal metaphor; mostly direct accusation. 'Put people through ringer' is primary figurative device.

LyricVoiceDramatic

Lyric internal voice with dramatic accusatory address; shifting between reflection and direct attack.

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