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aaron woodside
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since 2001-09-26
Posts 256


0 posted 2003-01-29 11:50 PM


This is not poetry.  This is junk I wrote because I can't write anything else and I just needed to write something.  My muse must have died.  


I should have walked away
or let this set with the sun
but when you smiled at me
my fortress of iron and stone
crumpled down,
My royal flush high
folded to your lowly pair.

Circle rounding again
everything I've built
you've undone
I knew I wasn't special
but the harsh reality of you
so close, so wonderful, so cruel
left my mind flipped around.

So I fell into you
as you jerked the rope away
my self-esteem drowning
I'm worthless
I'm stupid
I'm ugly
My personality lame, My soul diseased.

I knew this couldn't work
but I forged ahead defiantly
you made me rich, I felt myself cheap
but in my heart nonetheless, you grew
a seed under a cloudy sky
my life; a January rain
I should have walked away when you smiled.


Don't respond.  Just read and leave.

ex animo,
Aaron Woodside

There are no great men, only men in great circumstances.

[This message has been edited by aaron woodside (01-29-2003 11:52 PM).]

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OtherSideOfTheMirror
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since 2002-12-19
Posts 245

1 posted 2003-01-30 05:45 PM


Sorry... couldn't really read and leave. It was good. I love reading your stuff and I've kept up with a lot of it... I can't exclude this!

brilliant line:
"so close, so wonderful, so cruel"

Hope you're not upset I responded... but I'm glad to see some of your work again!

-cassi

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