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staybellmined
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since 2001-07-29
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insanity, usa (killeen,tx)

0 posted 2001-10-02 12:43 PM



have you ever had the feeling
that life should be more than it is
felt that somethings were better left undone
dreams better off fulfilled
memories that should never have been
welcome to the road of the lost and confused
join me for a journey through the depths of my mind
and see its nooks and crannies
find the hollows and shadows that dweel within
perhaps then you will see the demon locked inside
from normal beginning to tragic ends
road paved with dirt and blood
and the distance too short on the feet
simple birth turned sick at day three
death hanging close smiling at me
still I rose beyond my realm
seven should have been lucky but cursed
thrown in a world I'd never rehearsed
too young to see the future erase
and my dreams became screams
as pain and rage rose to the seams
and my bubble was ripe to burst
I was twisted and used
lost and confused
stuck there for life it seemed
thats where the drugs kicked in
smoking weed to get away
doing speed to survive the day
nothing mattered and no one cared
no one knew and no one dared
I was locked inside my iron cage
trapped by my fear and tamed by my rage
disillusioned with reality and the way things were
stuck with a drink too explosive to stir
deadly to touch and twice more to drink
held by a world that refused to think
and somewhere in that foggy mist
that held my reality in check
I found the one I wanted yet never knew
the one I can't let go of no matter what I do
and it eats me apart like an apple on the ground
hollowed inside and mocked all around
the only one out there devoid of the touch
and memories of a life I wanted so much
yet the truth of reality stays hard and cold
too young to fade out, too quick to be old
yet I'm racing to the end of my days
I'm running to fast to live long and prosper
the road I'm on is worn to its ends
and nothing can stop me now
for the end will come sooner than later
and the prospects of death loom near
cause I push life to it's limits in so many ways
I've been lost and confused for too many days
and the stories and pains still drag on
from evening dusk till morning dawn
I lost her because of the fool I still am
too many things to know what to damn
not one day goes by I don't think about her
and the torture causes the tears to stir
from a place I've fought and killed every day
yet still stays there alive some way
and I denied myself completely for years
thinking it was only horse **** and fears
but I still feel her to this very day
I hear her voice and the words she would say
and I'm tripped and slashed to the extreme
would some body please wake me from this dream
it's torture unending I've got to escape
it's closer to sodomy and mentally rape
I'm powerless and lost, twisted and used
trapped in a cage for myself to abuse
with war inside me how can I cope?
I've no stairway, no door, no rope
nothing but the drugs I use to float away
and those get more expensive every day
as I'm stuck in a world I tried to create
a world which every day I wake up and hate
leave me alone and let me go free
let me be the one you made me to be
and yet I see the end come near
and as it approaches I have no fear
I'm ready and willing, yet able I'm not
stuck in the life that's held in a knot
and its holding me here on the jagged end
one little nudge and over I will send
the last little bit of my life still here
and that will be killed by nothing I fear
so I'm hanging around in darkness and shame
naked before those who know my real name
in a world that burns and tears at my skin
at a world that has me, trapped within.....
"As the sun and each atom of ether is a sphere complete in itself, yet at the same time only a part of a whole too vast for man to comprehend, so each individual bears within himself his own purpose, yet bears it to serve a general purpose unfathomable to man."  Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace"

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Midnitesun
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Gaia
1 posted 2001-10-02 12:53 PM


Maybe a bit lost, but I don't think you are confused. I have more to say, but must step away for awhile. Talk to you later.
NapalmsConstantlyConfused
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since 2001-05-15
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2 posted 2001-10-02 12:56 PM


hmmmmm.
i can feel this, it comes through very clearly, although i think it might have found a better fit in dark passions... i can only say "this too shall pass." good writing, i'd like to see more of your work. this is good.
-Napalm

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doreen peri
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since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812
Virginia
3 posted 2001-10-02 12:58 PM


aaahhhhhhhhhhh
there's a Poet amongst us!!!!!!

speak it loud!
i hear you!

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