Expletives seldom solve, but;
dissipate emotion,
liberate an anger within,
til crying desperately, to the wind,
falling to broken knees,
aching hearts rent, wrenched
by a power midst the trees,
howling, swaying, rocking, baying,
with the gails, in time,
regret wells in this heart of mine.
Regret for a wasted life,
trust shattered, infidelity fraught, true;
lacking verbosity, forgoing eloquence,
screaming the words,
"fuck you".
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benevolentbluebabe (
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- Comment from author about the poem: After bottling up emotions, trying to forgive. Falling to your knees in a rainstorm, feeling the droplets strike your face, feeling your clothes soaking. Yelling out every last fragment of frustration into the horror-filled night. There comes a moment of peace.
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It is good to release frustration rather than bottle it up in the british ...stiff upper lip ... fashion of old.
Though your words do provide ample justification, I can imagine the tone of your voice, the vehemence expressed was to anyone in earshot, equally telling of the justification of the expletive.
As a generally non-confrontational person, there's been only one instance where I have uttered those words to another person's face; however, the wind, rain, and trees don't judge 🙂
and with such eloquence
I once read about a serious linguistic study of the use of the f-word in the military. The study determined that the participle (f-ing) form of the word indicated nothing other than that the next work is a noun, adjective, or verb ("I f-ing never remember to take my f-ing hat."). The word added virtually no substantive meaning, tone, or emotion. The study concluded that the word was mainly a verbal signal that the speaker is one of the in-group. A significant observation was made that, when the speaker wanted to be taken seriously, they stopped using the word, like when showing some one how to load a weapon or describing an important assignment. Go figure!
How interesting!! I suppose cussing does show a certain amount of immaturity...but, then again, we can't be mature allllll the time, lol!
i can read this and understand your emotion as it irrors mine sometimes. a good fuck you helps us all. kindly Diane
Indeed it does; an excellent release!
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