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Angel Anger

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By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Angel Anger
Photo by Neenu Vimalkumar on Unsplash

you hid under the veil of sacristy

A false room of self-righteous prayer that cast out the small demons that fancied to destroy me piece by little piece

By pieces, like a psychopathic person ripping off a live insect’s arthropod parts one by one; a half-assed liquidation

That left my head halfway cut off

Still expected to behave and talk without throwing up blood. I was the Jezebel

As you cheated worse than the Whore of Babylon

Complaining you didn't get to mess around but still relentlessly taunted me that I was not enough

Throwing me down, ripping out my hair in chunks

Yet you refused to give birth to a new nation that could create rather than toxically defend themselves

Only attack, as a cuckoo bird slips into the nest like a serpent

Eating the home, gutted out

Guts strewn about, in its stomach

Wormy, slimy, bloodless

Your Angel anger was demon repentance

A half-assed case, wherein the lock broke off the key was poorly made

Never to be opened

Unless smashed into my skull

Dreams that shattered the game of

fact or fiction

About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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  • Esala Gunathilake2 years ago

    Lovely one from you.

  • Manisha Dhalani2 years ago

    Woah! I felt this. "As you cheated worse than the Whore of Babylon" - actually made me "woah" out loud.

  • Gosh this was so freaking intense! I devoured your poem!

  • Dana Crandell2 years ago

    I'm sensing some bitterness. 😉 Well writ, Melissa!

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