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Dark Poetry #4

Pied Piper Of Better Days

Hollow_Emptiness
Senior Member

since 2004-02-01

Posts 715
New Zealand

0 posted 2004-09-27 11:54 PM

Look behind me,
Shadows trip-tripping blindly,
Following me wisely,
Lead everyone to a fate,
Pied piper of better days.
To better ways.

Get out of this world,
Out of our selfish heads,
Hating ourselves for the wrongs we can’t put right,
Holding ourselves tightly,
Looking behind my shoulder,

Is anything there?
To harm me?

Break my spirit and wind me up,
Nerves tightly taut,
Organs playing high low,

Sounds manufactured to make us believe,
We have to run.

What are we running for?
Pitter patter,
More like, thunder, stumble,
Running from ourselves,
Better than hiding under covers,
Under our beds.

Our shells we stepped out of,
Hunting us down,
World emergency,
Our past is catching up,
Running, and running,
Don’t stop,
Running, and running,
From ourselves.

We are running from ourselves.

I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had. - Gary Jules, Mad World.

vampiana
Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 296
Nothing and Nowhere

1 posted 2004-09-28 12:12 PM

that was so awesome. i loved it. i could totally imagine it as a song lol

"Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"-Frank from Donnie Darko

Purity
Senior Member

since 2001-11-20

Posts 526
Once Upon, USA

2 posted 2004-09-28 12:27 PM

Indeed one of your very best, I totally loved this one from beginning to end. I had the imagery of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi with the "trip...trip...tripping....."(paraphrased, but Rikki is one of my heroes!!), and then the rest of the story was just too poetic to crumple into a categorical box. You out did yourself here hollow...

Lose one friend... Lose all friends... Lose Yourself...

darkness_witch
Senior Member

since 2003-12-03

Posts 516
Underneath

3 posted 2004-09-28 04:45 AM

i fully agree with purity. i too LOVE Rikki.
definitly one of your bets

and with what kirsty sed, i can see it as a song as well.

love the ending..... really i dunno complimented the poem.

love and empathy
darkness

nirvana means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world.

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