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Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2003-06-04 05:36 AM

Oh, what is this mortal coil,
Where living makes life to spoil,
And measure of pleasure is deposed by toil;
Oh, what is this mortal coil?

Would any advantage be had
By switching the good with the bad
Taking up silver knife and poison pen
To write in the red of the life flowing
Each corpuscle and syllable to send
Mystic message to the unknowing.

Would there be any pleasure remaining
If those mythical hypocritical beings complaining
Were to stop and clean your self abuses
And take down those literary nooses
That you have hung yourself by for so long,
And would these things gone make you strong?

Probably not,
For as soon as you end your ways,
The very next cycle of days
Will find you forgot
A drunken sot
In some gutter you’ll rot
To those who recently gave you praise,
But will this be real?
Will you in that new tomorrow feel
Or just remain eternally numb
For every tomorrow to come.
Probably not.

For if you find your scribed tomb
Locked inside some dingy hotel room,
Spilling red and or just mind dead
From some cheep bottle overfed,
Always remember you’ve got a friend in Gloom.

Gloom

This might mean very little to most,
but I post all my writings here;
even if they might drop quickly out of sight

QjQ
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since 2003-04-18

Posts 3756
U.S.A.

1 posted 2003-06-04 05:43 AM

interesting write,,,

Poetry is a vision that portrays ones impressions.QjQ

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

2 posted 2003-06-04 04:01 PM

Well Professor, this tells me a lot about the type of person you are, and that in spite of your friend's shortcomings, you accept him/her anyway. I do believe that they do always have a friend in Gloom

Nicely penned.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2003-06-05 04:56 AM

you please me easily

Professor Gloom
Member Elite

since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

4 posted 2003-06-05 07:07 AM

Thank you, QjQ,
For taking the time to read and respond

Thank you, Mysteria,
Glad you enjoyed,
Yes I accept, with so many of my own shortcoming
How could I not?

Thank you, passing shadows
Always a pleasure to please

Gloom

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

5 posted 2003-06-05 01:07 PM

A very thoughtful write

M

Poet deVine

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since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

6 posted 2003-06-05 02:28 PM

I understand what you're saying and I hope your friend reads and heeds this. Sometimes friends have to lay it on line for those they care about. You've proven your friendship with this poem.

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