Stories tagged “blame”
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Helping the Helpless
I laid on the floor unmoving. My life was ending all around me and I was absolutly powerless to stop it. Of course, it was my fault I was in this mess to begin with. I couldn’t change anything, because I was the one who had destroyed everything. ...
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Where the Blame Goes (rap challenge)
Hey momma, holla back, It’s ya little boy writin’ from Iraq, I know ya wonderin as ya sittin there, why in heaven ya gotta be so scared, cuz ya little boy is carryin a gun, shootin up the villages just fo fun, and I know ya wonderin who...
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Gives You Hell
Dad’s taunting did not lessen one bit after Mom’s death. It actually only got worse. Plus he remarried a month after his wife died to his disgusting lover. I wasn’t invited to the wedding. I wouldn’t have gone anyway. And once &...
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I tried.
Stop blaming me. I tried. I tried so damn hard… harder than you’ll ever know. I tried to make you happy, to make everyone happy. But I can’t do it all. And no matter how much I do there’s always something left undone. Something ...
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Emptiness
I am filled with an emptiness. Something has been torn away. Stolen without my ever having known it was there. Where did it go? The pain is numbing. The anger poisonous, anger at myself. Not knowing, Not thinking. My heart reaches out for love and The ...
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Always/Never OK
Believe me when I say It’s not meant to be this way; When you’re hot-glued in my brain I tend to act a tad insane. I want you, need you, miss you, *We could be wrong, but babe I’ll kiss you Til the night ends, if you let me- *I’m even chill whe...
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Death and Accountability
The tank treads rolled across the battlefield with indifference. They weren’t even looking for resistance fighters anymore. There was no reason to. They had already won. Tim grabbed Daphne and forced her head in the direction of the window and po...
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In Between Minds: Storm of Consequences
I awoke to the rhythmic staccato of a moving train, and to a pair of voices. Soft-spoken, yet stern they discussed my future. My mouth tasted of blood and my head felt like someone had used it as a football. I didn’t think I was hallucinating- th...
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In Between Minds: Moment of Renewal
I had so many questions but the other voice didn’t respond to them. I didn’t know if it was ignoring me or gone. Was I getting crazier? Sometimes that happened to us. My stomach reminded me that food had been promised. I wanted to take a qu...
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Pondering...
If I’m an I and you’re an I, and we all think the same- if it’s an I for an I or an Eye for an Eye, then aren’t I to blame?
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Lengths
I shall run to the end of your sight Far from your judging ways Your cutting gaze My lovelorn malaise The love of your heart shall wound me no more I shall ride to the end of the land Out from the jostling masses Ignorant classes Muttering asses This u...
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Life Goes On
Timothy watched Charles prepare to leave with a certain amount of regret. He was a friend and like most of his friends- life had changed him. Once rich and generous, bitterness had taken ahold of Charles and aged him more in a year than smoking and dri...
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jamais vu
It was my generation that did it and blamed you. It was also your generation that did it and blamed that of your father’s.
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Where Next?
The evening slowly meandered on into lateness and misery. Neither man spoke much, there wasn’t much to say; when you’ve run low on spirits both in your glass and in your life, words come even less easily than when confronted with a mind-numbingly d...