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Open Poetry #32

I Cry Out In Vain

LucidityNow
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since 2001-02-06

Posts 118
Canada

0 posted 2004-05-09 08:48 AM

This is a poem I wrote when I was still a teenager. Actually, the writing of this poem is what set me off on my current path, a docorate in philosophy. I haven't been to these forums in ages, and now as I am attempting to revitalize my poetic tendancies, I wanted to share this poem first as it is essentially the spawn of my curiosity.

I Cry Out in Vain

I question your God, my heart, and my soul
Existence needs proof, in stories I'm told
But I sit here and cry, lacking gratification
While others have died, solely for their religion

So why do I cry? If I do not believe
What makes me doubt, I can not conceive
Is it power above? Or in my own heart
where these feelings are born, I know not where to start

Is God just a form of societal ethic?
Or is God a true being, to be viewed as angelic
It is nature to question, but with no answers received
I am still hanging, what can I achieve?

In need of assistance, I cry out in vain
I am a lost child, my doubts will retain
But I fear for my death, for what will remain

please help . . . for I fear I am already slain.

and i'm certain that if i drive into those trees, it would make less of a mess, than she's made of me...

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2004-05-09 09:20 AM

LucidityNow
Give gratitude to attitude. Enjoyed the write.

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

2 posted 2004-05-09 12:02 PM

Can see the inspiration brim in this piece...looking forward to the waterfall.
ThisDiamond

passing shadows
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displaced

3 posted 2004-05-09 12:45 PM

welcome back!

more! more! more!

LucidityNow
Member

since 2001-02-06

Posts 118
Canada

4 posted 2004-05-10 04:17 AM

Thx guys, I will post a little bit more of my older poetry at the same time that i post my newer stuff. It is all an attempt to save my creative side from the trials and tribulations of university.

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