I want to be:
Loved for the right reasons and hated for what I could be.
Cared about by friends and left alone by all doubters.
Envied for what I can do and ignored because you can't be me.
Read by those that think I am worthy and unreadable by anyone that judges by the outside alone.
Taken where I have never been before and surrounded by the familiar as well.
Create something beautiful and destroy all my barriers.
Most of all, I just want to be myself.
I grew up in the hills of WV, United States. I was the consummate under-achiever all through school. Knowing that I was intelligent enough to learn things on my own, I took full advantage of my intelligence to take the easy way around everything. I would skip school on a weekly basis but, when I came to class and was tested, I did remarkably well on the tests. This would be just enough to get by. Thankfully, I never had to study hard to get good marks on tests. Learning comes easy for me.
The one lesson that I didn't learn was that life will cheat you when you think you are cheating it.
I may have been smart enough to just get by in school without trying, I didn't learn that life requires more than just getting by and doesn't tell you about it until it is too late.
Had I been really attentive to my academics, who knows what I could have been. Life would certainly be much easier now if I had worked hard in school. So, I have made it a personal quest to learn with a non-judgmental mind about as much as I can. History, government, the arts, psychology, and technology to name just a few.
The only thing that I am even remotely unsympathetic about is chosen ignorance. People that know they are ignorant but, think it is too hard to better themselves are lazy in my eyes. It is one thing to be mentally unable to achieve better from life but, it is another thing altogether to just give up and accept your current state.
My poetry has a range from anger to love. Heart-felt to heartless. It is basically whatever inspired me at that moment or at sometime during the day.
If you read my poetry, please be kind and share what you think of it. The joy I get out of my poetry comes from knowing that someone read it and it made them think.
Thank you for reading and enjoy life.
Loved for the right reasons and hated for what I could be.
Cared about by friends and left alone by all doubters.
Envied for what I can do and ignored because you can't be me.
Read by those that think I am worthy and unreadable by anyone that judges by the outside alone.
Taken where I have never been before and surrounded by the familiar as well.
Create something beautiful and destroy all my barriers.
Most of all, I just want to be myself.
I grew up in the hills of WV, United States. I was the consummate under-achiever all through school. Knowing that I was intelligent enough to learn things on my own, I took full advantage of my intelligence to take the easy way around everything. I would skip school on a weekly basis but, when I came to class and was tested, I did remarkably well on the tests. This would be just enough to get by. Thankfully, I never had to study hard to get good marks on tests. Learning comes easy for me.
The one lesson that I didn't learn was that life will cheat you when you think you are cheating it.
I may have been smart enough to just get by in school without trying, I didn't learn that life requires more than just getting by and doesn't tell you about it until it is too late.
Had I been really attentive to my academics, who knows what I could have been. Life would certainly be much easier now if I had worked hard in school. So, I have made it a personal quest to learn with a non-judgmental mind about as much as I can. History, government, the arts, psychology, and technology to name just a few.
The only thing that I am even remotely unsympathetic about is chosen ignorance. People that know they are ignorant but, think it is too hard to better themselves are lazy in my eyes. It is one thing to be mentally unable to achieve better from life but, it is another thing altogether to just give up and accept your current state.
My poetry has a range from anger to love. Heart-felt to heartless. It is basically whatever inspired me at that moment or at sometime during the day.
If you read my poetry, please be kind and share what you think of it. The joy I get out of my poetry comes from knowing that someone read it and it made them think.
Thank you for reading and enjoy life.
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This is my life
More than just a dream
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Barren land and my broken heart
I have lost it all and I am falling apart -
Wake me from this coma called life
Bare my wrists to the slash of a knife
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Aesthete on March 26, 2008That was a lovely to thing to say, thank you. I liked what you wrote on your author page here. Very nice.
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DeepDarkDesire on December 12, 2006It's fantastic to hear that and thankyou so direly for your comments. I'll be looking forward to hearing from you again soon of course, yet I must implore your eyes to be set upon some poetry pieces you have missed. Recently alot has been going on and my style seems to be changing. I hope all is well and that you will be writing again soon
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DeepDarkDesire on November 9, 2006Evening Kevin, it's been a while since you commented on my work. I do appreciate your honesty and your time. But I fear I must justify my latest poem. My muse has taken a funny turn, I've posted a few poems online and if you take a look any time soon ( not a hint...honest
I know that your busy!) then perhaps you could mention to me how it's all going wrong. Anyways, I trust all is well and your family is safe. Much care-Hol -
Stoneface Gremlin on October 9, 2006It is good that you are doing well. It just doesn't look like things are going too well over there right now. At least that is what I see in the news. Just keep your gear close by. You never know when you might have to break out the thermo gear. Too bad you couldn't find the 4077th. It would have been cool if you could have found Hawkeye or even Radar. Congratulations on the wedding plans. It is good to have something joyful to look forward to. Take care my friend and I hope that you will be able to check in from time to time.
