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Open Poetry #27

Questions in Youth

davidmerriman
Member

since 2003-04-30

Posts 123
Dallas, TX

0 posted 2003-07-24 03:39 AM

Haven't written a poem in a while, too busy writing my novel, but here's something I just now wrote. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks!

(after a second read, some of the rhymes aren't very good, sorry)

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And mother, did you marry me
When I was but first born?
Or rather did you spit me out,
To cut me dry and torn?

And father, did you carry me
Through darkness as a seed?
In fighting for a taste of light
A man develops greed.

Alive I am, nevertheless
Though many years are blank
I see dimly the years ahead
In many dreams that sank.

I’ll learn that, why, not even I
Quite know why we are here,
Or why we share an air to breathe
And with its end we fear.

But why, why is there anything?
I know I know enough
To know that there is more to this,
This silly, wasteful rush.

This life of ours that I’ll soon live
I’ll die in fear of Hell
Though Heaven, I know, doesn’t exist,
But could I really tell?

So should I grovel at this Earth,
With knees and back in scrape,
Or blast to sunder under me
With all the hells of hate?

Maybe I’ll slink into a life
Of nothingness and sloth,
And let the days float like candles
When pulled along a cloth.

Or maybe I’ll exceed in life
In fame and glamour’s light.
Without thinking, mindless, tireless,
I’ll trudge to puissant might.

But in the end these thoughts will fade
And I’ll live without them
A part of our society,
Our sucking, tightening helm.

Never will I take it off, and
Let the questions come
Never will be reminded
To let myself succumb.

So leave me alone, you questions
You tempters of knowledge!
Please let me be, oh clarity,
Be gone so I may age.

[This message has been edited by davidmerriman (07-24-2003 03:53 AM).]

HomieX
Junior Member

since 2003-07-24

Posts 10

1 posted 2003-07-24 03:43 AM

Hey thats really good. As you can tell im new here, but im sure i'll be on here alot. Looking forward to more from you.

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