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Open Poetry #18

Let It Rust

Fallon
Junior Member

since 2002-01-07

Posts 21
USA

0 posted 2002-01-08 10:51 PM

I am walking through a silver
labyrinth, my skin purples
with every touch against the wall,
it feels lifeless, supported
only by a thin layer of some
kind of disenchanting film.

Oh God, it's ugly.  I wipe
it off and weep.  This, this
thick maze I am in, it's for
the weak and maybe the dead
but not for me.  I have to
escape, find the exit.

There is one, I see it,
light filtering through
slivers of pane
that mock me.
But no one knows I'm here,
or maybe some do,
but I don't care.
I have to do this my way,
my way is the only way to
escape.

There's a veil covering,
much like slime
and it's alive around me.
Thick, green and mushy and
it's sticking to my skin.

But somewhere there's
beauty, hidden
beneath the paint on the walls
and I will peel it, slowly
chip by chip until my fingernails
bleed.

Then I will no longer withhold
the rage that I feel for I do
not belong here!

And when I reach for the key,
if indeed, I need one
I walk out, somewhere
in that broad expanse of day
called life,
I will turn the key into
the lock one last
time.

Let it rust in Hades where it belongs
I will have no use for it.
No use at all.

'A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.'
~Emily Dickenson

Greeneyes

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

1 posted 2002-01-09 10:00 AM

But somewhere there's
beauty, hidden
beneath the paint on the walls"

beauty can be found anywhere....you penned this nicely...

welcome to passions.....

Greeneyes~

Tomorrow's another day
and I'm thirsty any way
so bring on the rain

wolf
Junior Member

since 2002-01-04

Posts 10
Hamilton (Steeltown)

2 posted 2002-01-09 11:56 AM

Now thats a pretty deep poem with a desparing tone in the beginning and an optimistic ending.
A very interesting read!

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