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mistic
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since 2001-05-06

Posts 233
Idaho, U.S.A.

0 posted 2001-08-25 11:57 AM

I just added another stanza that's all, to finish it off.

How do you numb the skin
To keep from feeling a thing?
'How do you block the sound of a voice
You'd know anywhere?'
How do you stop your feet
From moving toward the last place you want to be?
How do you turn your eyes
From the look that can read your everything?

Oh Mr. Tin Man
Tell me how do you do it?
How do you turn away all emotions and feelings,
Just to be insensitive
To the world around you?
Oh how do you do it?
How do you just block it all out
And not give it second thought?
Please just teach me Mr. Tin Man
So I can be just like you
And not feel a thing.

How do you stop the heart
From falling in love?
How do you make the brain
Quit calling up memories?
'How do you cool your lips'
After a lover's kiss?
How do you stop the eyes
From crying the unbidden tears that flood from their boundaries?

Oh Mr. Tin Man
Tell me how do you do it?
How did you become an emotional void?
How did you hollow out your heart
To enjoy the feeling of apathy?
Oh how do you do it?
How do you sit back and watch everything pass you by
And not want to be a part of it all?
Please just teach me Mr. Tin Man
So I can be just like you
And not feel a thing.

Why do you do it?
Is it from being burned so many times?
Why do you sing the song of emptiness
When there's so much to experience in the world?
Why do you put up a wall around you?
Is it to block out any pain that might come your way?
Why do you turn us all away
When we want to be just like you,
Just wanting to love and be loved in return?

Heavens Tears

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since 2001-03-15

Posts 677

1 posted 2001-08-25 12:55 PM

This was an awesome poem with such an interesting subject. This really makes you think: you want to block out all the bad things in life, but let all the good ones still get through. Too bad life never seems to work that way. NIcely done here.

Dopey Dope

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Member Patricius

since 2000-08-30

Posts 11132
San Juan, Puerto Rico

2 posted 2001-08-25 06:47 PM

I really loved the part about cooling your lips after a lover's kiss. I thought that was just awesome. Great poem here!

I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust.

Somewhere out there a cow is laughing at you

xShUgArHiGhx

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since 2000-09-26

Posts 3150
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3 posted 2001-08-25 06:55 PM

Oyy...if you get the answer to all of these questions i'd love to know it!! This was a very well written poem and i think you really put a lotta questions out there that are commonly thought about...wonderful job

mistic
Member

since 2001-05-06

Posts 233
Idaho, U.S.A.

4 posted 2001-09-03 12:22 PM

Thank you for replying

I'm sorry I haven't been posting or replying for awhile, but I've been busy with school and I still haven't gotten my poetry book back from my boyfriend.

oh well I guess. I'm going to try to catch up.

Life is an open book with many unwritten pages, write something that's meaningful to you there.

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