toxic relationship poems

A Better Person | Kenneth Eaton - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

A Better Person | Kenneth Eaton

I found out the hard way
That if I went against what he said
I would find myself fighting
A battle for my life, ostracized,
Belittled, slandered by someone
Who didn’t really care about me,
Only about preserving his own status,
Keeping the secret hidden about
How he really is, and doing anything
To make sure everyone sides with him
And nobody ever knows the truth.
So I find myself shunned but
Grateful that I finally get to live
My own life, away from
All that horribleness,
Choosing my own path and
Who I spend time with,
Not doing the things he does,
Being a better person than
He wants me to be.

Words Can Sound So Good | Riley Andersen - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Words Can Sound So Good | Riley Andersen

All those things you said to me that
Weren’t true, I wish you had just
Kept your mouth shut instead of
Confusing me, leading me on,
Making me think something more
Was going on than realistically was.
Words can sound so good but
I found out they can’t always be
Trusted, or believed, if they’re
Coming from someone like you,
The person I thought I could trust
More than anyone in the world.

I've Tried to Tell You | Matthias Rupertsson - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

I’ve Tried to Tell You | Matthias Rupertsson

I’ve tried to tell you
But you won’t listen,
That’s the way you are,
You say what you want to say
And nobody else’s opinion matters.

I see your face shut down,
How hard you become when
You close your heart and
Block out all the sunlight,
Hanging on to the illusion of control.

I’m getting tired of this pathetic
Behavior, there’s more to life
Than trying to get along with
Someone who doesn’t know
How to be anything but difficult.

Finally Free | Annika Kerner - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Finally Free | Annika Kerner

today is the day
i’m finally free
of that jerk who
only thinks of himself
who does everything
he can to make
everyone else miserable
who hasn’t done anything
nice for anyone ever
who is incapable of
being kind in any way
who wears a phony persona
only when it benefits him
who made my life
so difficult
but not any more

Disastrous Lie | Kellie Britton - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Disastrous Lie | Kellie Britton

and so here we are again
in the same place we were before
talking about nothing different –
pretending everything is ok
when it clearly isn’t – and why
should it matter anyway because,
even if it were, we wouldn’t
work on anything important –
always skirting the issue
acting as if nothing is going on –
living a massive, disastrous lie

You Didn't Think I Would Know | Sasha - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

You Didn’t Think I Would Know | Sasha

I bet you didn’t think
I would know.
It wasn’t difficult
To figure out.

All the clues
Were there.
You don’t cover
Your tracks very well.

I liked the way you
Looked me straight
In the eye
And lied about it.

It shows me
What you’re really like.

I guess I knew
Deep down inside
But pretended
I didn’t.

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