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Act I: Drown

I can’t go on like this tonight,
not with these countless flashbulb smiles
and disappointed words from hypocritical friends

You and I are like these all to eager lovers
who keep skipping pages, trying for too much

And I’m always too afraid, headed unsteady and moving too fast,
it seems like this wont last, God I know this wont last
with my damned hand-me-down heart

And yet I think I could love you more if you’d just ask,
but those words will never be fresh on your tongue,
every breath will be old and reused, damp with another girls spit

So I find that I revert to the same person I’ve known for too long
and mull in the fact that I’ll never be enough for you

Instead I’ll be diving head first into the shallow confusion,
spilling my mind onto the basis and childlike notions of us,
onto those places where the ice has thinned and taken us by surprise

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  • Myself
    August 9
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    A lot of feeling and pain in this poem. I can really feel your sadness.


  • PainfulPleasures
    April 29

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    "every breath will be old and reused, damp with another girls spit"
    That is an amazing line, perfect even.
    The way you describe everything is beautiful, you use imagery and emotion together quite well. Probably one of the best poems I've read in a while, good job. :]


  • EndlessNameless
    April 1

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    your poetry is just AWESOME. there is so much feeling and pain in this write. i can feel your sorrow.


  • AboveApathy
    March 18

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    i really like the 'hand-me-down heart' bit.

    you have some really creative ideas-
    i think i'd like to see them flow more.
    which makes me a hypocrite a little, because my poems DEFINITELY don't flow.

    but then, what's a poem but thoughts put to words?
    and since when are thoughts coherent, much less flowing and sequential?

    soo
    disregard this.
    wonderful write!!

    • MelodiousDreaming
      March 18
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      ^_^ Haha, no no you're quite right.
      Nothing but thoughts put to words and, in my case, they're almost never coherent.

      Thank you for reading


  • Ken-Maverick
    November 4, 2008

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    aww man,
    This is a very personal write indeed my friend
    "Hand-me-down heart?"
    come on now...
    you and i both know you're better than that.

    Keep your chin up, always

    Ken

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