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Sir your circuitry is showing...how embarrassing

Most sensations, feelings, they just make…my…blood…stone.  My heart beats like a million pins falling, pushing concrete through my veins and I…cannot…move.  My mouth is a desert mountain, barren and unmoving, except that it is slowly being pushed away by the wind grain by grain.  It confounds, all of it, I contort and the flashes in my mind's eye blind me, shake me, crush me like the rockslide you rode in on.  Everything is blurred, like my eyes are filled with too much light and everything swirls together. Where has my breath gone, I am choking, but only so far beneath the surface where the humanity hides, far beneath the mirrors that bend the sun's light and shadows.  From so far inside through all the darkness, I can glimpse the world outside, feel my own cold perspiration and my hands now that of a crumbling bust.  There's always a touch, something to break it all down. It's a moment where you must consciously take control again, consciously make yourself breathe, blink, cursing in your head, just move, bleed, live again.  And that is what it is, those moments where you feel so much, it overfills and then it is nothing, not living it all, or plain living, speaking, thinking, laughing, are really the opposition of living. These are the dances of our face to act living into acceptable exhibition, when living is almost completely fulfilled within.  These are the hoped truths, that I am not just some strange monster among real people, that I force a connection on them to me, and justify it with subconscious.  Perhaps it isn't so, perhaps I am merely trapped within myself and those actions that others truly feel, are not machinery, but my own.  Constantly I feel like this island, like dry land where others are covered and warmed by water that has evaporated from me.  Such loneliness, as said seated in confusion, as said seated in fear, that I do not belong, or worse, that I do, that we all really belong and it is just easier to think us set apart.  If I am set apart, then I can validate feeding my selfish desires, closing myself away, hiding from anyone really knowing I am just as flawed, not more like the devil, not less like the saint, but just as much pathetically, beautifully human just like anyone else. God is it so much easier to explain acceptance only in deceit, then you have not to face a harsher truth than being  of a different species, but just missing that which makes you able to be loved or to really love. What cruel creator, that you would pass down to me, but that my heart that loves so much could be numb from it, or just dreaming of it, incapable and afraid.

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rexreglisdesomni
There's more than a good probability I explained more than enough, but I refuse to abridge, to remove an element would be to cut out the eye of a dear friend and still call him whole and dear.

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  • City-of-Angels
    September 13, 2008

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    Damn..you my friend, must be a mind reader, really..everything you've described in this write has been going on in my head for quite some time. It's great that the piece can cause some sort of relation with the reader. And yes I agree, don't take anything out of this piece.

    When I first read it I wasn't sure it fit in with the other options, until I read it all the way through of course. Either way it doesn't matter, I was looking for something to cause me to think and search deep inside myself. This write did that. I can relate to this so well that it kinda weirds me out haha. Great write. Thanks for taking the time to enter
    *finals*


  • rollingzen
    September 12, 2008
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    'poets are shameless; they exploit their experiences'
    Nietzsche


    • rexreglisdesomni
      September 12, 2008
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      I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

      Socrates


      • rollingzen
        September 12, 2008
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        'idle youth,enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive, I have wasted my life'
        Arhtur Rimbaud