we are the kids who feel like dead ends,
wandering through the echoes of street
lights and fireflies, looking for something
to illuminate anything with meaning;
but instead we get
dead
eyes
and
busted
lips
because god grew tired of trying to make the perfect little children out of wasted lives.
now the night is intensifying as we struggle to lose the feeling in our fingertips by swigging from contaminated bottles, and instead of a state of apathy, I can only remember all the times mummy and daddy couldn't hold it together long enough to give me anything resembling a childhood;
at least I'm not the only one.
not the only one who grew up just a little too fast to really understand when the meaning of life was licking away at the ice cream before it dripped onto the sun burnt concrete, and skipping rope to find out the name of the person you were going to marry, and being home before dark so you couldn't get in trouble.
I played hide and seek instead
and just prayed from inside the
closet that my hiding spot was enough
this time.
because I suppose at the end of the day, even god has to screw up sometimes, and I guess he just didn't feel like fixing me.
Author notes
prompt: god grew tired of us.
hope this was okay; not all of it is true, but I got carried away with the prompt.
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A contest entry
- God Grew Tired of Us by Buggie.B.
470 points, ended December 9, 2009, 13 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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holy fucking wow;
looking for something
to illuminate anything with meaning;
&
I played hide and seek instead
and just prayed from inside the
closet that my hiding spot was enough
this time.
this piece should have been written for me 
lol love this!
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This is an incredible write. You incorporate a lot of emotion into these words in the form of heartbreaking imagery. Well penned, this is a piece you should be proud of.
~s-X-l
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because god grew tired of trying to make the perfect little children out of wasted lives.
-my favourite line.
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Wow!
This is a fantastic write, a lot like what I'd intended for this contest. I love the imagery. Very well written, and a great layout.
Best of luck,
-SamiJ -
This is really graphic, full of imagary and probably true for some people.Liked the ending too-'I guess he just didn't feel like fixing me'Good luck in the contest.Montey
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