Deep inside the human mind
are thoughts we need to hide.
Afraid of things we should not think;
where good and bad collide.
The things we do will leave there mark,
the scars cannot be hidden.
We dare not do what’s in our heads;
most our thoughts they are forbidden.
The cold facts are we're not so nice,
we lie and cheat and steal.
Then spend our time figuring out
new ways in which we can conceal.
The blame belongs to all of us,
we’ve always been so damn naïve
We learn by making horrible mistakes,
with broken lives we can’t retrieve.
Author notes
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. ~ Stephen King
A contest entry
- Dark, Light, and In Between by Wandering Woodchuck.
550 points, ended August 9, 2008, 17 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Gold Anyone? by Cat10.
650 points, ended September 4, 2008, 54 entries
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Comments
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Great take on the prompt..your words are pretty powerfully said..and true...best of luck in the contest
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Grrr. I hate leaving criticisms about typos on the page with the poem, but with you name hidden I have no choice.... I will delete it later. I like this poem alot.... but there is a typoe in the first line of the third stanza, you use the verbs are, and were back to back.
It is something I do myself when I make changes to my work. -
I like this alot. The poem resonates well with me and applies to who I have been in the past. Best of luck in the contest.
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