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Open Poetry #26

Degrade Me

KoKo
Senior Member

since 2003-02-15

Posts 995
Inside the shadow's shadow

0 posted 2003-06-03 03:05 PM

It's the excuses and apologies
That make me completely insane.
Inane.
Craving for steady ground--
Something I used to utterly despise.
Realize
This isn't wonderland anymore.
It's this thing called life
Strife.
Craving for what you hate
Cursing your love.
I have a sickening lust for love.
Don't you ever get tired of being different?
Tired of questioning your sanity
Which is insane
Considering what insane is
In this society.
Variety
Garbage.

It's these days that I get sick of you
Of me
She
Her
It
What am I
And who have I become?
Burns leave sour scars
And love leaves the burn.
Great pleasure accompanied
But never erased
By great pain.
The blood stains
Don't wash away
And the scars never fade.
Degrade
Me.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
--Chang Tzu