to check life's petty whims
for the chance of a moment
of true, and utter silence
this is how it calls to me
allowing a time for nothing
the true and utter emptiness
that exists only in dreams
will transport me away to
the peaceful bliss of the
internal self at peace
with all external to it
which exists with out
and not without all
that which isn't
what you might
call the
self
so
some
of us
seem to
understand
what this thing
we call the internal
as opposed to the external
and how it can exist all alone
without all the outside things we
like to collect around our self image
to protect it and make it seem something
it's not
could you exist
without all that
you'd like to think
you are?
i know i could..
but in saying that
all that happens is
denial and condescension
and so....
i sentence myself
to return to the
inside of this
cell and try
to start
over
again i
return to
the silence
that is me
and inner
and total
peace reigns
once more...
Author notes
a stream of conscious towards the end trying to be as authentic as to how you'd have to be in there all alone
A contest entry
- Alone by Timothy Cameron.
525 points, ended November 4, 2007, 22 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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Thank You, Mr. Sartre
Thank you for your submission to my contest. I appreciate it. This reminds me of many things. Mans' Search for Meaning, is one. Some of the thoughts of Sartre, as well. I'm not sure where faith and God fit into this freedom, though. But then, it can be argued that we are condemned to be free. -
I never even thought of taking this view on the contest. I guess everyones different, but if I was put in a cell by myself I couldn't find peace trapped in there with myself and all the things that got me in there. You would need a strong will to stay calm in there, and I'd respect anyone who didn't go half-crazy.
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well perhaps the only reason not to go crazy in there is because i'm already a bit out of it... but yeah its interesting how many people don't have that sense of peace when faced with solitude, i always look at it as a time to be honest and open with yourself, then its easier to be who you really are when you have to be around others... (thats just my thoughts tho...)
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