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Dark Poetry #2

Don't Treat Me Like One

moshpit
Member

since 1999-11-25

Posts 143
cebu, philippines

0 posted 2000-07-13 07:36 AM

The house was full of
people today.
Faces--young and old,
   true and false--
they almost drown me with
   their chilling
   untruthfulness.

It's just another party.

And I see you there, Mom,
   in black, contrivingly smiling,
   the tentative queen of triviality.
And where are you, Dad?
   I can't see you, but
   I can smell your musk
   mixing with Chivas
And that familiar
   stink of tiredness.

And where am I?
Lost again, buried again, forgotten again.
I am not your commodity, Dad!
I am your son.
I am not an orphan, Mom!

Don't treat me like one.

Deborah1
Senior Member

since 2000-06-22

Posts 653
New Hampshire

1 posted 2000-07-13 07:41 AM

Excellent writing, I see the false pretenses all around you, vivid image, of a "masquerade"...sad, very sad..

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

2 posted 2000-07-13 11:30 AM

Excellent description of that feeling. It's hard to be living in a home where you feel ignored, and misunderstood. Have been there too.
Take care
Catalinamoon

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