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XOx Uriah xOX
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since 2006-02-11
Posts 1403
Virginia

0 posted 2009-05-28 07:06 PM



Happiness
and heartache
Thrills and daily toils
Bitten by the black snake
Caught up in its' coils

Oh, how I fluctuate !
Ah, how I never change !
Oh how the strange seems normal
and the normal seems so strange.

I can always be myself
even 'neath a Blackbeard mask
You can call me "Edward"
and scream out"Teach me",if I ask

I can be a rusty tea pot
or a shiny sugar bowl
I can polish my integrity
and sell it as a soul

Adaptable,
flexible
Still wanted
Alive or dead

I can be near twelve feet tall,
if I stand on my head

Crawford's beauty mole
or ol' Job's burning boils...
I'm bitten by the black snake
and caught up in its' coils

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Osprey
Member
since 2009-04-12
Posts 249

1 posted 2009-05-28 07:14 PM


We're all manic-depressives, my friend. We just need to take hold of that ol' black snake and stick it in a sack.
Shadow Angel
Junior Member
since 2009-05-31
Posts 29
New Zealand
2 posted 2009-06-01 01:02 AM





~ Hi Uriah, I'm new here, and new to your poetry

but I really enjoyed this trippy journey down the page.
I never knew that black snake was term used with regard to Bi-Polar...I guess it's like the black dog which is a term I've heard used with regard to depression...anyway, sorry for rambling...I thoroughly enjoyed this poem

*hugs*

Sasha xx


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