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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2014-06-14 01:05 AM

Walls

This accursed room is all I've got,
And so I sit within it.
Another day born to a lie,
I lie here every minute.
Reflections of the hell I've wrought
Caught in visions of lament.
Another day to watch love die,
I die within the torment.

The four walls here surrounding me
Let me know I'm a loser,
Though I'm faithful to misery,
Even if I didn't choose her.
She found me in a wayward thought,
I felt the eerie essence.
A leech on me Destiny bought
With an unyielding presence.

The shadows move from wall to floor,
To wall, and then to darkness.
While I just watch, completely still,
In my empire of starkness.
And I would never ask for more,
The story's in the telling.
It's not the will, but mind that's ill,
Still, that's not what I'm selling.

No, legend lives where hope forgives
The fate you've measured to her,
As dream aspires to so inspire
What you seek to gain through her.
But transpaence and consequence
Both have part in the riddle.
The 'er doomed ride of love denied
Leaves you lost in the middle.

And so as night turns to daylight,
To find you still here sitting;
The question looms within the gloom,
What is it you're remitting?
With this accursed room, all you've got,
As you just sit within it.
Another day born to a lie,
You die here every minute.

Michael Anderson

5/03/14

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

1 posted 2014-06-14 06:45 AM

I guess no matter where we are or how we are we still die every minute. It's not a great place you write about so well but I'm sure it's one we're all familiar with.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

2 posted 2014-06-15 07:11 PM

Do you even know what a talented poet you are...you hit a nerve every time and make my heart ache. I think as a writer, when one makes one feel so much and so deeply...he then defines a true poet in every sense of the word. Your darkness truly comes to light through your words...

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

3 posted 2014-06-15 08:46 PM

I agree with everything BluesSerenade wrote.
You do know how to touch one.best to you,jo

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2014-06-15 10:35 PM

So dark yet brilliant, Michael.
Ida

amk377
Member

since 2009-08-11

Posts 58
South Carolina

5 posted 2014-06-21 06:38 AM

This is amazing Michael...beautiful bare your soul kind of writing. Your imagery is mind-blowing. I felt as if I myself was in that room...excellent!!

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it"

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