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A Beautiful Disaster
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0 posted 2012-06-11 04:42 PM


My love-jaded heart will no longer respond to the sound
Of whispering raindrops in fall or a train passing by.
I've got brand new wings, yet so frail; I lose touch with the ground
To take to my fantasy velvet mysterious sky.

I'm fine in my bulletproof shell and I quit endless waiting
Like quitting an old nasty habit and moving ahead,
Exploring the worlds that my own deft mind is creating;
Old passion's extinguished along with one more cigarette.

Whenever I light one, its taste and its sweet bitter flavor
Remind me of sharing a kiss I imagined that spring;
If only that winter I'd been just a little bit braver,
This all would have come to the same tragic end in a blink.

The guise in the mirror of spring is a blear reflection
Of somebody already dead and forgotten at all
Yet standing the very last chance for the heart's resurrection;
I swear I'm back on my feet, you may shoot, I won't fall.

The past is all gone, so one day I'll forget to remember
And gladly discover I've chosen nothing to keep,
Awaiting another July and another December;
And now it's time to put down my pen and just sleep.

What dreams are to haunt me, I wonder? Next morning I'll know,
My mind is still blank as I'm totally sober toight;
My desperate thoughts and my fears are letting me go,
I'm ready to enter the kingdom of misty midnight.

I'm ready to enter the gates of tomorrow now,
Today is a legend and yesterday - just a mistake.
I'm crossing the line, I will make it all through anyhow,
Just happy to live and to breathe every morning I wake.

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JerryPat2
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South Louisiana
1 posted 2012-06-11 05:46 PM


You have the perfect attitude for keeping on keeping on. It is all about YOU, remember, it is you who walks and talks in your own skin. Don't let false love throw you, hit the ground running and climb back up into the saddle.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

ethome
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since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada
2 posted 2012-06-11 06:19 PM


Great emotional self examination with some good metaphors to get the mood across.
This is very blue but the type that brings relief.

Good work!

Eric

true love never looks after it's own interests

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3 posted 2012-06-12 08:25 AM


I swear I'm back on my feet, you may shoot, I won't fall.

The past is all gone, so one day I'll forget to remember
And gladly discover I've chosen nothing to keep,

This resonates so deeply within me... I admire and envy the strength that pours through your beautiful words!

Startime1955
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since 2012-04-22
Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada
4 posted 2012-06-12 11:41 AM


It takes a great deal of strength to get up and try again...I can feel this poem deeply...well done...*HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

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