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Ironic Gratitude

Have you ever sat alone in your room
and silently produced 
  salty pools of agony for the first time in years?
Desperately devastated 
  at the reason behind them,
sincerely surprised 
  at your ability to excrete them,
ironically indebted
  to a moment that feels a sliver of something again,
graciously grateful
  even if salty tastes bitter, again?

Premium Member Ironic

Why oh why not commit suicide 
Rather than unalive other people 
There is a blackness in a heart
To do such a thing for any reason

Of course one must be disturbed 
But that seems like a whimsical word
For such a despicable human 
Old enough to premeditate murder

A photo and we see skin hair eyes 
Blessed to appear normal outside
But the inner spirit surely soured
To pick up a gun and execute for power

You may say suicide is a sin
I say kill self rather than others
Since you feel so divine and inclined
Ready to meet your maker

No one wants to die how you kill
And sit in prison for years you will
Soak up time your victims lost
While death penalty is likely tossed
Because you are saved by grace
You didn’t give
Ironic

Exit and Exist

In life there are exit 
And exist.
Whenever exit 
Angrily 
Disappears.
Exist excites  
As it exactly
Appears. 

May 20/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe 
Mussabwa Chris


Ironic Blockage

Today I didn’t know
What I was going to write
I wracked brain for ages
But inspiration not in sight,
I feel my creativity 
rising recently
Yet today my inner poet,
Has been a little hard to see.
I can see the irony
It's there upon the screen
To write the fact I can't write
Is a mystery to be seen.

Ironic Surprise

Don't be surprised...
   over there... it's a place
    where you can't reach...

Premium Member Totally Cracked


Thank you, Lord, for not having the brains of fawn.
Like the Texas man, who broke into a home, to mow the lawn?


              ~True Story~
                 5/9/2022


Ironic

old men
start wars
young men fight

Speller

Back story: I wrote this is reference to a lady expressing your struggles when she was homeless on a community app and someone commented and stated that they could not take her seriously because she spelled a word wrong...

I never claimed to be one who was a good speller. 
Or someone who could pronounce words well. 
But I always liked to sing and people listened, because I was a good storyteller. 
I don't mind if you correct me, to make yourselves feel better. 
But I find it intriguing and ironic, that even what I say or do is wrong. 
That you can still understand me, like a puzzle piece in a song.

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Cooked

If Mr Ramsey tasted my food
His head would crease, and say something rude
But I do my best with what I’ve got
And I bung it all-in a great big pot

No one listens to my excuses
And my eggs gratin has several strange uses
My pis de resistance is egg and chips
Hurts your stomach; stays on your hips

I gave some leftovers to my dog
He trotted upstairs and spat it in the bog
He’d seen this happen lots before
He’s an intelligent dog do I need to say more?

So Mr Ramsey if you're ever near by
I could use some tips and some crisp and dry
I’d make you a meal you’d not forget
And a dog’s free transfer if you wanted a pet.

David Cox 08/12/21

Ironic In the End

I abandoned friends 
they said "it was random" 

They were pretend
they said "can't understand him" 

I was in trouble 
they said "I was lying" 

then it all doubled 
they stuck denying 

I was desperately fighting 
they told of attention I cry for 

My world slowly dying 
they laugh cus I lie more 

They lost my respect 
it's clear the way I'm thought 

My world has been wrecked 
They say it's all my fault 

I'm clearly depressed 
They don't know why 

I'm angry and stressed 
they said I don't try 

then they were abandoned 
now
everyone says 
"I can't f**king stand em" 

I think it's because 
they're all a bit random

Premium Member Ironic

Isn't it ironic that most of the world's human population,
enjoy movies about underdogs resisting oppression,
ultimately thriving afterward with their celebrated rebellion,
when in the real world it appears that most everybody,
submit without question to authority willingly.

Ironic Road

The widened highways
are often in traffic jams
as workers are late.

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Write on my gravestone.

It was a typing mistake.

Not a random skip.

Rather, it dropped correctly.

Was neater than other lines.

Morbidly Ironic

Morbidly ironic
Profoundly apologetic 
To the body that has carried me
Despite the rigorous decrees 
I issued over you
Knowing the stress and restrictions followed were of my own volition 

Here I now kneel, begging the same body I so begrudgingly belittled and bullied 
The body that I starved and overworked
The body I intentionally cut and bruise and burn
The body with the walking death sentence

Now pleading for this same body to produce life

Have I asked too much 
Pushed the boundry of her capabilities 
Exceeded the capacity in her efforts of saving me

Why did I not value you
Take care of you
Love you like I should've 
I now know of your limitations

Gloomy Day

Somber; Mist outside.
It falls with quiet beauty.
Unforeseen Comfort.

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