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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2003-08-14 11:24 PM

I've tried to get a handle,
On the rage consuming me.
I tell myself it's senseless,
And wish I could be free.

But memories obsess me,
Of things you've done and said-
About how bad you hate me,
And wish that I were dead...

Words can be so painful,
And likewise tone of voice,
And yet we tend to say them
As though we had no choice.

Then bitterness consumes us,
And eats away our souls,
Only anger keeps us going,
As the storm about us rolls...

I ask myself, "Why bother?
Why don't you simply go?"
Perhaps a sense of duty-
Why else I do not know.

the_loner_23
Member Ascendant

since 2002-06-08

Posts 5479
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

1 posted 2003-08-14 11:31 PM

I so know this feeling. Awesome write.

Cold hands means a warm heart

gemjop
Member Elite

since 2002-11-18

Posts 2587
Pencilveinia, USA

2 posted 2003-08-19 09:22 AM

Oh you know we'll ask ourselves a thousand times more before we stop it. maybe we never will. why do i bother? because I care, no matter how much others don't.

the words stay don't they, and probably mean more than they were meant to.

sigh. hugs to you.

Instant karma's gonna get you.

KristieSue

Senior Member

since 2003-01-31

Posts 1460
PA, US

3 posted 2003-08-19 10:34 AM

you're not alone...but I wish there was an answer

good job...

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it is learned ~ KS

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

4 posted 2003-08-19 10:56 AM

this was a very good write...let it all go, if someone really does hate you...well, sir, they have lost a great treasure in life and cannot see the forest through the trees...as love does not hate or wish bad things upon another.

inot2B
Member Elite

since 2000-09-18

Posts 2205
Arkansas

5 posted 2003-08-19 11:09 AM

I liked the way your poem flows when said out loud.

Now for the content of your words.
There is a fine line between love and hate.
Life is way too short, being alone would be better than with someone who makes us so unhappy.

Pilgrimage
Member Elite

since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

6 posted 2003-08-19 01:26 PM

Wonderful meter and rhyme, as I have come to expect from you. This is so sad. Life is short, and should be filled with people who love us. Sigh.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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