Caught in an unyielding miasma,
one day rolling colourlessly into the next;
the past comes to lay its bare arms about you,
jealously guarding your attention.
Just as consciousness touches you in
the grey light of dawn with its
unlovely fingers,
reality settles once more upon your shoulders.
Quarantined in a nebulous turpitude,
isolated by irrational conviction:
you are a fraud in your own hemisphere ~
existing vicariously in the third person.
The past stalks your waking hours
and in stark negative, highlights your failures;
success is obscured in opaque oblivion
and an empty wind scours its winter landscape.
Your soul is a chasm filled with despair
that festers, disgorges and pools
malevolently at your feet:
a morass of relentlessly circling thoughts.
When the shadows of the past surround you
there is company enough. No room
exists for those who say they love you ~
What do they know, anyway?
Caught in an unyielding miasma,
one day rolling colourlessly into the next,
where the future is only a mirror of the past,
mocking the eye with its hideously warped horizon.
Author notes
Option 2 : Depression
In a list
A contest entry
- Random Option Contest by GypsyEyes.
375 points, ended February 6, 2008, 14 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - your most very personal poetry♥ by innocence jaded.xx.
475 points, ended September 7, 2008, 62 entries
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-Quarantined in a nebulous turpitude,
isolated by irrational conviction:
you are a fraud in your own hemisphere ~
existing vicariously in the third person.
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WONDERFUL vocabulary. It's such a sad topic to touch up on, but you penned it perfectly. I loved every word. Keep it up, I'm sorry if you went through something like this. Good luck & thanks for entering
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i liked the flow of your poem. you write so vividly! the darkness in it is expressed so beautifully! i just love it! thank you for entering and good luck!
NineTailedFox -
Your soul is a chasm filled with despair
that festers, disgorges and pools
malevolently at your feet:
a morass of relentlessly circling thoughts.
THis bit i loved the rest is fine too XX
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Such ambivolent thoughts meander in feelings where its collusion sparks a nebula of emotions. Though this is a darkened write, it yet shows a sliver of sought after Hope by the words it uses. Very well done.
~Starr~ XXX
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EXCELLENT
You are such a gifted poet and this one proves my point.Its so different yet just as good I like the part (where the future is only a mirror of the past)
this is a very deep write and I really enjoyed it.OH! NO! you have been HOOD-WINKED again YEA!
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great piece. i really liked it alot. i liked all of the detail. thank you very mcuh for entering and good luck.
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Is that really you?
Not now the laughter or the happy joke, but depths of thought so foreign to you. But you write them convincingly. Well written and definitely S.A.D.
Peter
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Excellent
Brilliant Lou. Quite a departure from your performance work which always makes me smile. You've captured the negativity of introspection superbly here. The imagery is spectacular. Seriously sad, good luck in the contest. Hugs Kath -
This ia amazing, I love the imagery and the darkness of this piece, it is all pulled together so brilliantly, well done hun
Karen -
Powerful
such a sad and empty state of this individual, it makes me tear up as i re-read this over and over. brilliantly written. blessings and best wishes, ~richard
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Lou,
knowing you as well as I do I hesitate to comment in case this is fact, not fiction.
Shenton
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