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Goldenrose Member Elite
since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665
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Flick the switch in your head, turn off the colour, grey shades coming sharply into focus, welcome to my world of immaculate plainess, can you assilimilate images? Be careful as you walk down slimy, miasmic streets, alleyways, dark gloom, hiding ambushing, angry, rabid dogs, gnashing. Slide into the cold comforting water, black film rippling across the canal, clouds blocking sunlight. Dip beneath the surface, decaying dogs attached to chains, dark staring eyes of newborn babies, gently bobbing on the bottom, syringes, beer cans, fridges. Step up through manholes, people go about their life, sickness within them, passed on by the acceptible media. Image, image, image, so what if children are dying of starvation? Am i wearing correct clothing? Is it good enough? Do i look right? Let me escape, to the meeting houses, blur out this world, with booze, drugs, both. Out of my head, i can fall into dreams, about being good, respecting people, showing compassion, wearing sensible clothing, raising children healthily, laughing, playing ball games on blue sky beaches, life lived free from controlling substances. Abruptly, sitting up, breathing hard, the grey world falls back down upon me, i'm back, what a nightmare! Desire for nothing except desirelessness,hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes, want nothing and you will have everything.avatar Meher Baba. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
a harsh reality...powerful, hard-hitting write GR very well done! |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Not exactly one of your feel-good pieces of poetry! ~ but man alive, does it pack a punch to the solar plexus. Thankfully for you, 'twas just a nightmare but unfortunately, as you so eloquently expressed, it is a living nightmare for so many... A very good write! Love, Light, Peace & Harmony, Linda |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
reality we were not informed about until we met these images you so perfectly describe...I'd like to continue to pretend, they don't exist in my world Chilling write...very well done! |
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Startime55 Member Elite
since 2003-04-05
Posts 2148Alberta, Canada |
Painful reality brought to life in a way that cannot be ignored....Thank you...this poem could be a wake up call for many....*big hugs* |
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Goldenrose Member Elite
since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665 |
Thank you to all who replied...a darker subject than usual...but i live in a light and dark world...darkness sometimes more than light... goldenrose. Desire for nothing except desirelessness,hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes, want nothing and you will have everything.avatar Meher Baba. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
some of those images are downright bothersome  but then nightmares are usually vividly painted exaggerations of the contrasts of life's dark and light sides |
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