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Open Poetry #31

The Bending Machine

celestecat
Junior Member

since 2004-02-02

Posts 29

0 posted 2004-02-24 06:34 AM

Your hands guide the weight of the bending machine;
you are overwhelmed by your own creation and need
to see it bend and fold in on itself.
A blind portrait of destruction when one
thinks only of oneself.

Your throat is constricted
by the weight of the bending machine.
You listen to your own shallow breath
and you are praying.
You never even knew
you believed in God.

Your arms bear the scars of self-inflicted wounds
and you are wondering why your are so scared at night when darkness surrounds you
and all you can hear is the whirr
of the bending machine that drowns out your thoughts
and makes veiled, wicked suggestions to you in the dark.

You wonder how the power of belief overcame you...
how you managed to justify your actions
And vanish from those who lay claim to you.
The bending machine holds the answers.
The bending machine can tell you everything.

The bending machine
remains your secret confidante
to whom you owe your greatest source of power.
Your eyes are shining as you stand watching
Your bending machine;
the one thing you trusted when all others turned away
the one who became your way to all knowledge
and the one thing you turn to
even now.

Death
Member

since 2001-05-26

Posts 112
Twilight

1 posted 2004-02-24 08:02 PM

A most intersting write and style
I liked this

Merci

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

2 posted 2004-02-24 09:45 PM

very interesting stuff here--

my first thought of a "bending machine", I thought of a prismatic crystal, that bends the light. It doesn't change anything, just breaks it down into manageable (more readily understood) components.

smile. I'm having a hopeful moment at my end of the screen.

Color me happy.

and thanks.

Grover
Senior Member

since 2004-01-27

Posts 1967
London, ON, Canada

3 posted 2004-03-22 07:38 PM

I have to agree, it's interesting!

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