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Dark Poetry #1

One of Them

Systematic Decay
Senior Member

since 1999-09-15

Posts 1301
That place with padded walls and funny people in white.........

0 posted 1999-09-24 11:45 PM

Ripples of apprehension break the stillness.

Then they stir no more.

It is the calm before the storm.

You don't dareto speak aloud.

If you do,

The demons of society

Might destroy you.

You cough a strangled cough,

And fight to draw a breath,

But the air is stale with conformity.

The wind starts howling,

Striving,

To extinguish the flame inside.

The tiny ants,

Identical,

Are telling you to

Think no more,

Speak no more,

Be like them.

You begin to shrink in your own estimations.

But you mustn't change to be like them.

Well,

Perhaps just one mannerism.

Or add a few slang terms

To your vocabulary.

Then,

One day,

You look an ant in the face.

You realize,

You are one of them.

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"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage."
-Billy Corgan-

JennyLee
Senior Member

since 1999-09-01

Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.

1 posted 1999-09-25 12:14 PM

I really think this one is your best of the day!!

Jenny Lee

The Unknown Poet
Junior Member

since 1999-09-25

Posts 34
Somewhere West of No-Where

2 posted 1999-09-27 02:56 PM

Well stated, Sys,
Spent some time on the ant farm myself, once.
Daring to be different bears many rewards and many curses but at least when you see a mirror, you know it's your reflection.

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Deep Blue Me
Member

since 1999-11-04

Posts 396
By a big lake

3 posted 1999-11-05 02:42 PM

To hell with the ants, Sys! Be yourself, that way you know where to find you.

DB

Watcher666
Senior Member

since 1999-10-13

Posts 1606

4 posted 1999-11-06 04:07 AM

Well done!

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Illusion...what we see and what we do...it's all up to you.

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