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Life Ain't No Rock~N~Roll Song

Dancing to a Different Tune

By Mother CombsPublished 6 months ago 2 min read
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Spent your petty little life

Living through the loud music

Thriving on all that strife

To the point of being ageusic

Stunted your personal growth

Partying like some sixty-year-old teen

Anyone different, you loathe

While you claim never to be mean

Snottily snorting your white lines

Crushing beer cans to impress your friends

You’ve been showing all the signs

With each abuse you toss out, our love rends

Convincing yourself the lyrics were real

Using YouTube for marriage advice

Thinking every fake degree is the real deal

You’ve turned our love into a block of ice

Because of your paranoid fantasies

Making life harder on all involved

You’re mad I can’t supply a life of ease

Furious that I decided our union needed to be dissolved

Beating you to the punch, ending the torment

It’s past time for you to grow the fuck up

You are so immature, when you make a smartass comment

No, I’ve heard enough. It’s time for you to shut up

Dressed like some redneck, stuck in the eighties

Running around with the guys, spending your last dime

Thinking you're still as cool as you were in your twenties

You’ve left me to fend for us for the last time

You’re a rock & roll junkie with nothing to show

Too busy showing off for your cronies

You blew away your family buying blow

Your whole crew is a bunch of phonies

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I know what you tried so desperately to hide

All the dirty little secrets, thinking you were so sly

I’ve kept quiet in the past, but this time you don’t slide

I’m sick of all your shit. It’s time for me to say bye

So, while you're stuck in a rock & roll song

Telling everyone that will listen that I am a whore

Just know that I am at peace, because I did nothing wrong

While I move on and heal, you can continue to feel sore

I don’t care anymore what you do

I’m dancing on, listening to a different tune

So while you're stuck in a rut, I’ll be doing stuff that’s new

Enjoying my new life, while dancing under a full moon

The song you’ll play from now on, I’ll no longer hear

While life rains on your parade, I’ve the luck of the Irish

I’m smelling the roses, absorbing the good vibes and cheer

When your life goes down the drain, I’ll be living as I wish

It doesn’t matter what you say anymore, anachronistic simp

I deserve more than some middle-aged burned-out punk

You’re crazier than five-dollar hillbilly pimp

I’m calling you out, you lowdown dirty lying skunk

With your accusations made, you’ve laid the ground

You’re nothing but a lowdown horn Dawg

You and your friends have been tomcatting around

Well, I refuse to live another day in your verbose smog

I’m heading out of the chaos, and I’m moving up

Nothing you say can hurt me now, my armor’s in place

Watching your life turn bitter, I’ll sip blessings from my cup

Because I’m erasing you from my life, leaving no trace

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Mother Combs

Come near, sit a spell, and listen to tales of old as I sit and rock by my fire. I'll serve you some cocoa and cookies as I tell you of the time long gone by when your Greats-greats once lived.

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  • Matthew J. Fromm5 months ago

    Love a good clap back from the jilted one. great poem!

  • K.B. Silver 5 months ago

    cooking with fire on this one. 👏👏

  • Caitlin Charlton5 months ago

    This goes hard. I like that when I read it, it seems it could go well alongside a rock and roll sound track. Despite the theme being very much against it. I could picture this person in my head. And the revealing lines were surprising. 'Going on YouTube for marriage advice.' 'conviving himself that the lyrics were real'. 'running around with the guys and spending every dime'. This person sounds immature. 'Anachronistic simp' this person made you reach deep within your mind to find the coldest roast. What a comeback ☠️ 'Leaving no trace' I can feel how relieved you must have felt when you got to this last line. This was outstanding work Mother Combs. Congratulations on your leaderboard placement 🎉🎉🎉🤗❤️

  • Wooohooooo congratulations on your Leaderboard placement! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊

  • Babs Iverson6 months ago

    Powerful!!! Bravo!!!❤️❤️💕

  • D.K. Shepard6 months ago

    This definitely had a very personal feel to it! Can't imagine this fool isn't someone very real in your life! Great poem, MC!

  • Antoni De'Leon6 months ago

    Well, you sure showed him. Fact or fiction...it needs to be said out loud. Hugs if truth and yeah..if fiction.

  • Test6 months ago

    Wow... the venom in this is so raw MC!! Well penned, but I did notice a Fact or fiction tag... wanna talk about it? Or send me an address and I'll kick some ass, put on a real show for his buddies! 😏

  • Euan Brennan6 months ago

    He doesn't deserve you, MC!! But I hope you're doing okay <3 Sounds like you are with this kick-ass poem!

  • Susan Fourtané 6 months ago

    Fact or fiction? You come up with cool things. :D

  • Great to get that out, some people don't deserve us, excellent words

  • Feeling the emotion there Sharon. Well wrought.

  • AWESOME! I can relate!

  • Tiffany Gordon6 months ago

    Awesome writing! Well-crafted!

  • Oooo, is this based on true events? It sure was powerful. I freaking loved it!

  • Grz Colm6 months ago

    Wham bam! Nicely done free verse Mother Combs! Liked this line a lot, “ So while you're stuck in a rut, I’ll be doing stuff that’s new”. ☺️ 👏

  • Lamar Wiggins6 months ago

    Wow! that was raw and unapologetic! -Convincing yourself the lyrics were real- Really loved that line and your use of the 'Rockstar' persona.

  • Sandy Gillman6 months ago

    Every stanza packs a punch here. I love it!

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