Guilt Poems - Poems about Guilt

I’m sorry. That you are suffering. That you are misunderstood. That you aren’t shown the love you should. I’m sorry. For not noticing. For not hearing you. For not seeing your struggle. I’m sorry For listening Only to turn around And tell someone else. I’m...Read the rest...

I drank the blood. Shuffled up to the altar, pearly white shoes scraping over faded white tile dirtied by the footsteps of countless sinners. (I knew, even then, that that same grime already claimed my soul.) I accepted the...Read the rest...

The bed will testify of what you did on it. The wall’s silent ears. Foreclosed window eyes. Onomatopoeia from door’s Half opening mouth, The night you switched off the light Drew all blinds but darkness stood there as a witness, watching you...Read the rest...

The pages meet my fingertips again Tenderly guiding the ink, as if it were rotten bile Channelling all away To minimal change of my world The illusory script does not function To the disappointment of myself and the happiness of...Read the rest...

• A warm liquid racing down my face • Staring at the ground like a fool • I guess I've really done it now • She seems to have lost her cool...Read the rest...

I feel this every day, Even when people pass away. A mix of guilt for not being able to cry, Not understanding why. How can I not feel pain, Is this what they call vain? I do not know how to...Read the rest...

A repaired planet looks like the moon. Where humans would die Where war would lose With a deep black sky And a hindering light The lids of your eyes And the sun, unviewably bright. I’m sad like a crater. I made a crater...Read the rest...

Drowning in Fear This feeling of sudden, impending doom corners me with strong arms. A deep seated ache of guilt for what wrong doing, I know not... begins tearing at my insides like a sharp toothed...Read the rest...

Down the corridors of mortal existence He pursued me without ceasing, Never yielding in his search of the lost, Nor flinching from the wounds he carried To gain admittance to my broken heart. Out of a love beyond...Read the rest...

I wish I could hear your voice one last time “Hey” you would say softly “I love you” you would quote literature by heart Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Vonnegut and then you would quote something of mine “because I know you by heart too” you’d tell me in...Read the rest...

In the twilight of our thoughts, we thrash in the waves of unconfessed guilt, Consciousness, a curse of silence, reveals the world in all its hidden cruelty. We are lost actors on the stage of an endless...Read the rest...

The passed a place with deep regret Don’t want to remember, cannot forget There’s scars and wounds that will not heal For I had to main I had to kill I had to follow the orders...Read the rest...

I think about, the right and wrong. And good and bad, that comes along. So on my guitar, I play a song, to ease the pain, of morals gone. For every tune, there is a sound, in hurtful hearts, is felt profound. Sometimes I try, to contradict, my wicked...Read the rest...

I've known strong desires I couldn't control somehow, I've gone astray as many have: that world of limitless pleasures didn't last for long on false love and raised many an eyebrow! Silly girl, don't play over my guilt, I've cried over my...Read the rest...

I've known strong desires I couldn't control somehow, I've gone astray as many have: that world of limitless pleasures didn't last for long on false love and raised many an eyebrow! Silly girl, don't play over my guilt, I've cried over my...Read the rest...