"I think I should be granted the #ability to #inflict my multiple #health conditions on random #billionaires at will.

We’d have a #cure for just about #everything in under five years.

#Everyone being like “but we wouldn’t have access to #treatment” as though some of the world’s #wealthiest #assholes don’t run health #insurance #companies and I wouldn’t use this power to enforce health care reform and force them to write the deal in their own #blood like the wrath of an #angry #god.

Be not afraid? No fuck you. Be afraid, be very afraid."

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#MastoPrompt 2023-04-07 & 08

It was inconceivable how #erstwhile lovers, friends, partners could #inflict such pain upon each other. She could not wrap her head around it.

How would she ever trust anyone again?

Well, she thought, perhaps I'll start with myself.

#MastoPrompt
#Inflict

The moon made me soft.
The wounds never healed anyway.
So I ripped my heart wide open once more. Under the moon.
With you.

Now only the wounds are left.
And the moon.

@tanweerdar

Love's after effect
Grief inflicted such an ache
Only echoes now.

#grief #haiku #MastoPrompt #micropoetry #inflict

@tanweerdar

the past creeps up on me
from the most unexpected
places to #inflict its melancholy
on my present moments

burrow back to those days
of immortality those hours
that were always endless
the nights never too long
the days supple with time

the binds that stretch all
those years long are strong
as bending steel load
bearing pain bearing,
happiness a holy state
of being in silent rooms

narrow now the straits
as finity rolls across the
horizon too close

#MastoPromnpt #Poetry

I have bartered
With the lone
Hope left in
Blood and bone
Battered and
Broken against
The shore
Of your
Insidious
Lies

#MastoPrompt #SmallPoems #Inflict #Poetry

"Briliant move!" The sidekick eyed the unconscious villain. "But how did you do it?"

The old mage smiled. "Soul Swap."

"Never know it could be used that way. But wasn't it banned by the Council of—"

"Don't fret. I've realised over the millenia, pragmatism trumps all rules."

"Millenia? Didn't you say you were born after the last—"

"Figure of speech. Anyway, what vengeance shall I #inflict? Fiery Tongs? Eternal Dark?"

"Uh... maybe just hand him over?"

#MastoPrompt #MicroFiction @tanweerdar

I'd tried so hard to forget him, locking him away in the deepest parts of her heart and throwing away the key. The message and his profile picture brought it all back; the pain of the break up had never really gone away. I mean, how could it? We'd made plans to spend the rest of their lives together; bought a house, met the families and even had a puppy.

The music in the car filled my head as I drove home Wine was chilling in the fridge and I poured myself an extra large glass or Prosecco. The sweet chilled wine went down in two large gulps. Picking up the bottle by the neck, I take it over to the couch as I fall into the soft cushions. I'd kept the albums, not being able to part with them; but tonight seemed like the perfect night to clear the decks and cut him out of my life.

I went to the drawer and fossicked around for the scissors as I took out the photographs.

I would not let him inflict any more pain. He'd already caused enough heartache.

#MastoPrompt #inflict

My thoughts and feelings are complex
My words are concise and true
I know my subsequent actions perplex
That's because there are more me's than of you's

I really try not to be #equivocal
But it's just the nature of my mind
I really wish you would just let it roll
Instead trying to control me all the time.

You can't reign me in
I'll just start to contradict
The more you try to restrain me
The more pain I #inflict

#wordoftheday #mastoprompt #poetry #poem

With a mind so cynical,
A situation #equivocal -
I’m a hopeless addict
With the compulsion to #inflict
Pain so self soothing
Suffering so moving
It causes enough self-reproving
To begin improving.

#SmallPoems #WordOfTheDay #Mastoprompt

I see you
For who you
Are
Not what the
World
Would make of
You
Or make you
Into
I see the scars
They have inflicted
On you
And I will
Not fail to
Be thankful
That
Despite it all
You found your
Way
To me

#MastoPrompt #SmallPoems #Poetry #Inflict

The #MastoPrompt for Friday 7th April 2023 is:

#inflict

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

#inflict : to give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking

- French: Inflige

- Italian: infliggere

- Portuguese: inflingir

- Spanish: infligir

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

#inflict : to give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking

- French: Inflige

- Italian: infliggere

- Portuguese: inflingir

- Spanish: infligir

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form