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Before Anything was Beautiful



     You've learned from the coffee drops on my books that I have so many openings through which you can slip inside my world and stab the universe that surrounds me.

I can't clean the coffee mess for I've been running out of tissues more recently than before; I believe my books can endure the wetness for now, unlike my cheeks.


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There was that fleeting moment during which we sat and tried to define 'love' and 'beauty', but we ended messing up the whole world until the earth started to rotate from east to west and gravity failed to pull us back to reality.

It was then when I found out that I don't exist anymore, just a passing-by breath, unnoticed for how insignificant it was. After all, this world is drowning blindly in so many breaths of lost identities.

I could have called you but I forgot your name and your figure has became a hazy outline of memories that I've started to question my senses and better judgement; were you real?

But you weren't a history and neither was I...

I just wonder why you never asked me about those coffee drops, were you too afraid the answer would make you drown in their dark brown colour or were you just so careless as of to find out why I'm alive yet?

I just wish you'd knock at the door or slam the windows shut or rock me back and forth violently... maybe then if I hear all the bangs and knocks, I'd realise that I still have some life left in me...
Some life still rolling there somewhere in my corpse...

I just wish you'd do that... but I know you won't...

Because you hate brown and you hate coffee and you just simply can't

... look at me

 

 

 

 

 

(C)Noor 10/10/2009 

Author notes

Contest prompt: I used this one:
'Prove to me that there's still some life left in me.'

Though it was just a line in the contest describtion. Thanks to the host for allowing me to use it.

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  • forbidden-colour
    November 20

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    I really liked the idea, I just thought you repeated "coffee drops" a little too many times for my liking, but besides that I absolutly loved this.
    Thank you so much for entering.
    Sophie


  • Faerie.Princess
    November 11

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    I love this, it was a beautiful write, and as a coffee addict, that drew me into the poem as well lol. it was so beautiful, and ive felt like that before, as if im not important.
    Thank you for entering, always keep writing
    xoxo


  • mgmc gold member
    October 17

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    Very powerfully written. Don't know if its based on experience but appears to be very heartfelt! Very nicely written. If true the saying that time heals all wounds is really true.
    Sometimes it takes a very long time though.

  • BrokenGlassRose
    October 12

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    absolutely love this piece. You comletely capture the feeling of not being important to someone and wanting them to ask you something to show they care. Nearly made me cry, which says a lot.


  • PorcelainHope
    October 12

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    Brilliant piece.
    I love everything about it - the structure, the words, the rhythm, the message.
    "Because you hate brown and you hate coffee and you just simply can't

    ... look at me"

    Bookmarked.


  • Puppydog gold member
    October 11

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    SO LOVELY!!!!

    So much in these words sis! So very much to help one to wonder about many things in this life. Beautiful write!!!!


  • SarahEatsAirplane
    October 10

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    -I just wonder why you never asked me about those coffee drops, were you too afraid the answer would make you drown in their dark brown colour or were you just so careless as of to find out why I'm alive yet?

    those lines are my favorite.
    As I read this, it felt so open and real.
    Finalist.

    good luck.

  • jackflashjess
    October 10

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    Great approach, the style and content are very original, I liked the extended metaphors at the beginning and the existential exploration towards the end. Well done!


  • Ken-Maverick
    October 10

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    Another write that will probz get a shiny,
    you've been penning alot of brilliance lately.
    Keep it up Young Lady...

    Ken


  • AngelBellerose gold member
    October 10

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    Because you hate brown and you hate coffee and you just simply can't

    ... look at me very deep dear sweet Sis I love the message you have penned a gold shinny here my Noor Hugs always love Angel♥

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