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Dark Poetry #4

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Didymus
Junior Member

since 2008-05-01

Posts 33
USA

0 posted 2008-10-04 10:14 AM

Scared Psyche

Why do we humans do harm to ourselves
Are we forever to condemn our soul to repeat
Over and over the same rationale
For that which is irrational

Why do we let life’s [deeper] questions

Go unanswered
Let them go

Simple question cloaked in hand made complexity
What drives me into a self constructed corner all the while pretending
That the door behind me is nailed

Shut

A door that leads back to the room
Where the problem unresolved and imperfectly examined
Waits for my return after years unattended

Which is now filled with sunlight and joy
Yet veiled from my corner of refuge
Let it go

What price refuge

What drove me to enter into love for a woman
That I knew deep inside would never fly

With broken wings

Trial or error

Trial in the hopes of finding lost youth
Error in righting a long ago failure itself

Error
Ignored or denied
That dooms my feelings endlessly
To wander the same hopeless Avenues

Despair or Masochism

With what nameless guilt do I mercilessly
Flagellate my scared psyche

Let it Go
10/02/08

fractal007
Senior Member

since 2000-06-01

Posts 1958

1 posted 2008-10-04 10:40 PM

Hm.. This poems sounds like the guilt-ridden musings of someone with OCD. The doubt he expresses regarding his inability to resolve life's deeper questions brings to mind a scared psyche. But the self-induced flagellation brings out the scarred psyche.

Life's short. Think hard!
Me!

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