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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2013-09-04 08:31 PM

Entropy: a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy, in a system, that is no longer available for doing mechanical work. (Measure of unsalvageable waste).

Entropy

Eyes open to a vacant stare,
You're not sure that you're even there.
The sight is dim, and the brain fails
To process what this view entails.
You stand up, or you think you do;
But pause a sec, to think it through.
The moment past you, unaware;
Eyes open to a vacant stare...

For the truth hurts, you have been told
Through sordid lies, clever and cold;
Till all thought fades, as life grows chill,
Watching it from the windowsill.
You never went outside to play,
'Not sure you'd even know the way.
So no, your dreams are not that bold,
For the truth hurts, you have been told.

Though never spoken of aloud,
You see the measure, high and proud.
That treasure hunt some hold as theme,
But squandered time one can't redeem.
Where even functionality
Is lost to mediocrity
That wraps around you like a shroud,
Though never spoken of aloud.

And so you sit, and so you sigh,
Lacking the energy to die.
The representation of waste—
A pawn the gods errantly placed.
The game over, the board used up,
You raise to lip that empty cup;
Drink to your fill one lifelong lie...
And so you sit, and so you sigh.

Michael Anderson

8/17/13

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

1 posted 2013-09-05 04:00 AM

Sigh! Sadly I can relate to this. Well penned as usual, Michael!

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2013-09-07 04:08 PM

The deep despair here is overwhelming, Michael. I guess feeling a poem is what makes it stand out.
Ida

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2013-09-07 06:22 PM

I'm not real happy about how well I can relate to this poem, it suprised me. Thank you for the definition.

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2013-09-07 06:44 PM

Dark poetry consumes me. I have had a few years writing dark, but never as well as you. You reach into the readers own psyche and uncover hidden and mostly forgotten things best not remembered. This is one of your best. Hell, every poem you write is one of your best.

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

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