While time plays tricks
Mind flutters with broken wings
Breathing long deep sighs
Confusion kicks hard
Leaving you dazed
Magical touch of your hand
Everything that comes in contact
Cracks right before your eyes
Seeps through gush of intentions
Teaching you the lesson in spite
The fluids running through your veins
Takes a sudden unruly turns
Cutting, bruising all body sections
While you try your best to fight back
With all the vigor to shut the damn pain
It creeps in and in, bringing in
With it the spiky wraps
To envelop every individual emotion
Tight enough until barely breathing
And watch it standing over us, laughing
While we beg for it to kill us, moaning
But, wait, it’s still not done
We, the mimes still have lot to face further on
The wrongly sent paperless bills
With no supporting customer service
Loosing your entire dissertation
To the demon hiding behind computer screen
The list goes on
The backups are all eaten
One last class seems never ending
Everything is suddenly motionless
For financial aid is incomplete
While next school awaits for official transcripts
One last thing, you get messages
From your ex for he needs you because he’s upset
You immediately take a quick deep breaths, lie to yourself
There is nothing to concern
Life will be better just a little ahead
Lies and more lies you dig out of life’s baggage
Used up all of them, nothing more left
To convince yourself nor you can give any more comfort
Not even any one around you has left to say
Other than same lies you just told to yourself
Everything falls apart, nothing goes your way
But still trying to hold back on losing your sanity
While inside your brain piles up all the garbage
Of pain, uncertainty and frustration
Pushing you closer and closer to insanity
Last resort blinking before your cock-eyed eyes
Curse every form of God known to human kind
Yell all alone until ears start to bleed
Bang against bricks hard until hands are bruised
Still frustration is at its peak
Further alluring you to confinement
Of thoughts of painless suicide
Lord have mercy
The words automatically spill out
No matter how hard you try
To stay away from the brutality of reality
It comes right back to clutch you harder with its fist
While digging its canines deep inside your throat
Choking you to keep you alive
And, feed itself for its relentless delight
Now I know what it means
when people say “reality bites”
Author notes
It's just what I'm feeling right now on 11/28/06
In a list
A contest entry
- let it all go by restless-romantic.
300 points, ended December 22, 2006, 59 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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Good job here. Best of luck to you and Happy holidays.
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Wow!
GREAT JOB!!!! Did you win the contest? I can't see why you couldn't! You did exceptionally well in this poem. Keep up the good work. I loved it! Off to read your other poems! Tata!
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I REALLY LOVED YOUR POEM YES IT REALLY GOT TO ME BECAUSE IT TAKES ALOT OF HEART TO SHOW EVERYONE HOW YOU REALLY FEEL...
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Thank You, Thank You Thank You
Thanks a ton for reading and enjoying my poem. It does take a little more from you to write reality, but then sometimes its proved to be therapeutic. I often been told and made fun of being too sensitive and emotional, but who cares??? Thanks for understanding reality. I really appreciate you taking time off of your busy life.
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I think where you said Takes a sudden unruly turns you meant turn...this poem was REALLY long lol it's hard for me to follow long poems well, but i understand. Sometimes it just takes more words to express what you're feeling...i still loved it. Great job
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Thanks a ton!
Thank you for your time and actually reading it. I really appreciate your efforts. I did mean turns, coz life just doesn't take 1 turn, it takes several turns and lately it has been taking too many turns for me.
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I agree with the other comment, but this was a very good write!
-Ambz
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Thanks a lot!
Thank you for your comment and time you took off from your precious life. I really appreciate it all and I'm gald you like it!
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SO HONEST AND OPEN!
You say here what we all face each and every day
I know I have these days of hurt and sorrow often. As much as we always seem to let these things bother us we always come back and see the good things in time.
Fantastic poem my friend.
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Thanks Buddy!
Thank you so much for taking time to read it and I'm glad you enjoyed it. This is life, it happens to all of us, whether we like it or not. Actually currently I'm at the brink of losing my mind. I really do appreciate your comment and encouragement, I so need it!
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Thank you for your comment. I know, I try to avoid it, but it some how manages to find me hidden in the darkest corner. I really do appreciate your time, always.
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reality eh, i just try to avoid it, but i keep bumping into myself and cussing. a good piece. spill ink and twist me into the crazy shape of love...
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