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KoKo
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since 2003-02-15
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Inside the shadow's shadow

0 posted 2003-06-21 03:53 AM


Does anyone else miss the bad days
The cold winter nights spent sleeping
On the concrete ground, behind garbage
Cans?
Does anyone else miss the sad days
The days spent in the same smokey rooms
And the same spilt-beer-stench cars
Unconcious?
Does anyone else miss the hot tears
And the way anger tastes in a bubble?
The days you cried just to taste pain
Exploding?
Does anyone have the honest
Answer of "Yes, I do"...
If not yet the very quietest, meekest
Squeak?
Does anyone hear this built up secret
One that went unnamed for so long
And even when the name was there...I was
So ashamed....
Does anyone else agree: I'm twisted
Longing for days when you never knew
What would happen......Spontanious combustion??--
Bring it ON!

Does anyone else long for the long alleyways-
Dark and broding...Without your flashlight?
Neither the one that runs on batteries
Or the one that runs on the Bible?

Does ANYONE else wish to be naive
And ignorant to the point
That you didn't know that if you chased the horizon,
The horizon will win the competition
Without breaking a dewdrop?

I knowI'm not the only one
With a past
itching
Like a slowly healing scar
To be let out...

And am I the only one this twisted...
This criminally insane, to wish that
The knife that gouged the scar
Were still here? Still wedged so far
Within my skin
That no spell nor meds nor amount of picking
Could ever find its wretched point....


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

[This message has been edited by Balladeer (06-28-2003 11:18 PM).]

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passing shadows
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displaced
1 posted 2003-06-21 04:08 AM


dang! this hurts, but i know what you mean
KoKo
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since 2003-02-15
Posts 995
Inside the shadow's shadow
2 posted 2003-06-21 10:48 AM


Thank you very much Passing Shadows. I found the answer I was looking for while writing this...But now I've forgotten again  

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

Albert J. Allie
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since 2003-02-13
Posts 512
Queens NY
3 posted 2003-06-28 09:59 PM


I find myself longing for the days that really stunk for some reason. But life was simpler then, huh?

"Does anyone else agree: I'm twisted
Longing for days when you never knew
What would happen...--Sh*t...Spontanious combustion??--
Bring it ON!""

AWESOME WORK AGAIN. I love the way you can switch your writing style around. I do that myself.



Broken
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since 2000-03-12
Posts 271
The woods
4 posted 2003-06-28 10:44 PM


This is a very outstanding piece to me, I've thought this many times myself. I both miss and remember the bad days better than others for some strange reason.

"And am I the only one this twisted...
This criminally insane, to wish that
The knife that gouged the scar
Were still here? Still wedged so far
Within my skin
That no spell nor meds nor amount of picking
Could ever find its wretched point...."

Thank you for sharing these thoughts with me.

Yours truly
~Broken~

Such griefs with such men well agree,
But wherefore, wherefore fall on me ?
To be beloved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed.

S.T.C

eminor_angel
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since 2003-05-22
Posts 323
Canada
5 posted 2003-06-28 10:52 PM


This is awesome, and so true. I don't know what you've experienced, but you tell this very well.


Balladeer
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6 posted 2003-06-28 11:20 PM


Profanity, even when disguised with astericks, goes against guidelines for the Open Forum...poem has been edited accordingly.
timothysangel1973
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7 posted 2003-06-29 12:10 PM


Wonderful write KoKo

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