Open my eyes to another disappointment.
When I look at the world,
I see it slowly turning darker,
Such a filthy cruel world.
He rapes her,
She cuts her wrists.
Another suicide attempt.
Another one sent away.
Her father hits her to the ground,
as he screams at her,
She lay there,
shaken, afraid to stand and run,
or even crawl away.
She sits unknowingly of the near future;
drinking her life away with vodka and rum.
Wanting to always have fun,
until when her dealer is dry,
she tries to make the deal,
Last she ever saw was the bullet digging into her stomach.
This world. So dirty.
Unsafe. Pathetic.
I open my eyes each morning;
just to wonder.
"Why did I even wake up?"
Why, I can never say.
But I continue to wake, each morning,
and sleep, each night.
Wishing just to not have to ever open my eyes again.
A contest entry
- A Wrong World Turned Worse by MusicMattnessLives.
475 points, ended June 10, 2008, 38 entries
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Comments
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thank you so much. i completely agree with this. this world is screwed up. i loved reading this. so much pain, abuse, and death. people need to get off the horse and in the ground (i realize that i'm on the soapbox). they need to see what else is going on besides Miley Cyrus getting caught nude on film or the Spears family getting pregnant! (i work in a grocery store so i see the headlines 24/7) people DIE every day and people suffer all too much. enough of this rant. best of luck and good write.
~MRH~
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Wow...you really got this one...you use such good wording its like watching a movie in my head and I can actually see the things you wrote about being so sad and heart breaking...you always capture good emotion...I love to read your poems!!! This is a great one!!!
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A very intense piece. This is heartwrenching and so very sad. Yes, this world can be such a brutal place with so much pain and suffering.
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