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Rhiannon
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since 1999-07-28
Posts 95
Fayetteville, TN USA

0 posted 2000-11-09 08:37 PM


      I feel the pressure
      I have to be
      Billowy, bright, blind-
      I have to be
      whatever it is that
      They can't find-
      I have to be beautiful
      To keep them
      I have to be sexual
      Get inside them
      Abstract and
      Interesting, can't
      anybody here
      tell that
      I'm fake?
      Pure, white and unadulterated
      Bring pleasure in all it's forms-
      That's me, the girl who provides
      The girl who gives it all
      Can't anybody tell that I am
      Not what I say that I am
      Not what I show
      Not what you know, I'm
      So much of nothing important
      But I'll never let you find out-
      Cause I feel the pressure,
      And I am what I have to be.


The night is my companion
The solitude my guide
Would I spend forever here
And not be satisfied?
Sarah MacLachlan, "Possession"


© Copyright 2000 Rhiannon - All Rights Reserved
inot2B
Member Elite
since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205
Arkansas
1 posted 2000-11-09 08:46 PM


What you write is very true. We have to put on a different face for different people. Not fair but it is the way it works.
EagleOne
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since 2000-03-07
Posts 2829
Between a laugh and a tear...
2 posted 2000-11-11 12:02 PM


Powerful writing here, the message in your words is true for so many! I know for myself I have wasted the greatest part of my life trying to be the poerson others wanted. Now i just be me, and life is so much better.   Take care!

"The heart and soul have no illusion of boundries when friendship is the quest"
~ My Angel.

Ron K. Fox
Senior Member
since 2000-10-24
Posts 925

3 posted 2000-11-11 07:17 PM


This was an excellent write, as we all have to play our parts to survive life and love, and only we can answer ourselves as to what should be real. Thanks for the read. Ron

Tossing words like wishful coins into the deep well of an open heart. R. fox



Rhiannon
Member
since 1999-07-28
Posts 95
Fayetteville, TN USA
4 posted 2000-11-11 09:19 PM


Thank you again!  Could I love this place any more than i already do?  Everyone is so responsive.  I appreciate it  
love,
leslie

The night is my companion
The solitude my guide
Would I spend forever here
And not be satisfied?
Sarah MacLachlan, "Possession"


Poeminister
Senior Member
since 2000-02-26
Posts 1862
Regina SK; Canada
5 posted 2000-11-11 09:51 PM


This was a well written poem, but I don't agree with your overall statement. We shouldn't act or seem.  We should be.  What we truly are inside. And were all important.  Those just my feelings.  

take care
-Poeminister

"...no single sound too rude
Upon thy slumber shall intrude,
Our thoughts, our souls- O God above!
In every deed shall mingle, love."
--Ed

peppermint35
Senior Member
since 2000-05-28
Posts 1106
Texas, USA
6 posted 2000-11-12 12:10 PM


Very true words...many times we wear masks so we can be what everyone wants from us...this is very powerful

Pepper
"A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth."
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Kethry
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082
Victoria Australia
7 posted 2000-11-13 05:35 AM


Rhiannon,
we don't actually have to be anyone other than who we are, but so often we do.
powerful poem.
write on
Kethry


Why do yesterdays remain and todays pass by ...unnoticed?
Rex E. Alford

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