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Dark Poetry #3

I am a Lost Boy

majnu

Senior Member

since 2002-10-13

Posts 1088
SF Bay Area

0 posted 2002-10-26 02:47 PM

I am a Lost Boy

I am dead, or ought to be at least.
Ambition's run dry, the river of Emotion
it was carried in is quiet - the source
Frozen.

But none of Diana's soft arrows come for me;
Even the harshness of Apollo would be
Kindness.

My grandsires lived into their nineties,
all eating eggs and red meat cooked in oil;
Ironic.

Let me pass my life's (dis?)grace elsewhere,
I no longer have need, yet the
Reaper

Remains estranged,
taunting from the shadows; I despise his maniacal
Grin

No regrets, no fear, the former a lie.
Any who say otherwise are likewise liars,
But here I am begging for the end.
Here I am on the road alone,
Noone understand(s) -> I am wierd.
"You're the wierdest person I know bro,"
And from the mouth of babes...
Truth the forever beautiful who hides expertly,
just ask Medea.
I am lost not to sea,
nor sky,
nor forest green,
nor flame flickering high,
but to this world.

fractal007
Senior Member

since 2000-06-01

Posts 1958

1 posted 2002-10-26 06:55 PM

This poem is extremely beautiful, I must say. You have done a truly excellent job in bringing together the actual conditions of the speaker with allusion and personification. This is an awesome piece I'll certainly be putting in my library.

"If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh"

-- Magus

bre28
New Member

since 2002-10-27

Posts 3

2 posted 2002-10-27 10:27 AM

I just wanted to say that i agree with Fracta's assessment about the personification. I am truly impressed and ur poem speaks to my soul. Good luck in the future.

majnu

Senior Member

since 2002-10-13

Posts 1088
SF Bay Area

3 posted 2002-10-29 10:59 PM

thanks for the compliments.

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