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Astraea Member
since 1999-11-09
Posts 378California! Yeah! Okay, I'm done now |
Whispery feelings touch a frozen heart All warmth, all fire Sweetening the pain within There's a sigh buried somewhere inside that fleeting caress Stinging over a wound never to heal Pulling eyelids closed with deadly kisses The beating inside my heart is slowing The blood rush is fading away All that's left from the barrier is pain The illusions are shattered Pain is so very real to my heart And when that heart is one of a youth It's all the more tender to be cut Broken like fragile glass not yet cooled Feet so tired from the flight over mindless lands So far have I escaped So close, still, is the pain Was it worth wandering so far? Always hiding, masking and murmuring nothing Nothing that meant anything for everything was nothing My insides were sore from the waste It was unfortune to live, never want to die, and hating living As the pain ate away The loneliness froze And I was no more than a walking body With the dreams creeping close like shining stars Only to disappear Revealing themselves as will-o-the-wisp in my head Exhaustion's setting in again Making everything spin faster Turning the pain into a delicate torture It's a life I refuse to give up But so tiring still to try I don't want to run any longer My hiding places seem too familiar What use does it take to stop and look back? What is it I have to hide? I'm so tired of the pain to never attach To any of the open arms presented Swallowing, shuddering, hating myself so I forced myself to stand up from the ground I had fallen I had run so long these times Cherishing the moments briefly warm Before returning to the cold What was I running from? Myself? I'll never the answer to that No one would tell me so But I wonder sometimes When I'd been running so far Why I'd never hear you follow I turned slowly, as was want of someone who'd never seen behind shadows But in that moment of seeing what truly lay behind me I collasped And screamed "Sometimes stars can only be seen in darkness." "Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." |
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poetry_kills Senior Member
since 1999-12-04
Posts 549new orleans |
astraea: this is so lovely and so expressive that it makes me wish i was depressed right now just so i could appreciate it more *heh*... unfortunately i'm going to have to come back to it another day... i'll add it to my poetry bookmarks (that should tell you just how very good i think it is... i only have 5 poems bookmarked)... this is extremely well written and the ideas expressed are magnificently put... two lines in particular stuck out to me that i thought were extrordinarily well-written: "There's a sigh buried somewhere inside that fleeting caress" & "Feet so tired from the flight over mindless lands"... very good  sincerely, jerome the boy whose inordinately happy today p.s. -- if you ever need to cheer up, try listening to Madness while eating homemade chocolate chip cookies... really hard to be sad doing both of those at once  A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! ~Coleridge |
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