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Damien Page
Junior Member
since 2014-03-30
Posts 22


0 posted 2014-10-01 11:12 AM



The universe surrounds me and I still feel alone,
No matter where I go…
following the footsteps I see on the ground just to see another person like me.

I wish I could envelope my pain in a little package and place it far away from me,
As far as the left side of the galaxy is to the right side of it.
I’ll never have to think about the people that hurt me.
I’ll never have to suffer by my memories that already happened.
Irreversible scars, intertwined with venomous regurgitation.

Yet, the irresistible urge to harm myself grows stronger each day.
Ironic how humans listen to sad music when they’re sad,
as if we torture ourselves to feel alive.

I torture myself to feel something.

My body dives into a river of morphine,
engulfing the purple waves of numbness,
infecting every pore of my skin,
every cell absorbs it.

A man of few words that speaks less than what he thinks.
Even though I want to be constructive, I end up being destructive.
I try to build something for peace, and create an atomic bomb.
Are my intentions pure? Maybe they are…
But I don’t know anymore.

My jagged glass hands harm everything I try to console.
So I keep to myself.
I cry inside until I drown from within,
but I try to never show it. There’s no need to.
Why would I show people a problem that cannot be solved?

I’ve developed anorexia of the spirit.
Famished, drawn away from the light.
A statue made of acidic ice,
Permeating a hatred that lingers like the odor of death.


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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
1 posted 2014-10-01 11:43 AM


I love your beautiful sensitive, introspective poem, Damien, although it makes me hurt.  

There is always a way.  You just have to find it.  You CAN do it!

The following is a link to my poem, 'Never-Ending'.  Please read it.  
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Owl

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
2 posted 2014-10-01 11:51 PM


Through your words I feel you pain on perhaps a very small level, but I feel you nevertheless and I wish with all my being i could find the words to comfort you.  I hope in time you find a sense of peace in your life.
Margherita
Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
3 posted 2014-10-02 06:19 PM


I wish I could envelope my pain in a little package and place it far away from me

You can do that, it's done with meditation and visualization.

Yours is a very well written poem, the pain is deeply felt. We suffer, hence we are alive. But we are not meant to remain stuck in our dark tunnels, it's in our power to move forwards cultivating and tending to that little light that is ALWAYS present.

Reach out, as you have done here, for isolation is not the solution.

Love and peace.
Margherita

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