Strange Things

[Guest Heart Like A Hole]

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Porcelain is more than fine, Falcon. I've always been quite fond of your freeform, and this poem is no exception. I enjoy your powerful sense of imagery, and the last two lines are quite piercing.

 

~Porcelain

"Heart Like a Hole"

[Falcon2001]

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Well, due to inspiration by the talented Porcelain (Sorry dear, but Heart like a Hole is too long to type all at once, so I'll just call you Porcelain), I'm going to try another freeform poem...not going to promise much, but it'll be there.

 

 

 

They ask

Why I wear black

And I laugh and tell them

Some inane answer

designed

to keep them away

but would they

shrink?

If they knew the truth?

Of my broken promises

And the lies

And the hatred boiling up inside?

Would they run from me

And my apopleptic rage

If they knew where it came from?

If they knew it was directed at them

And their smiles and laughs

And games that they play?

Strange things happen

In the mind of the damned

 

They ask me why I'm depressed

And I smile and nod

And reassure them I'm fine

But would they care?

If they knew

That the depression sinks deeper

Although it's not there?

With claws of ice and bone

That shatter my hope?

Would they care

If they knew that the world

was as bitter as it really is?

If I lifted the curtain,

opened a few

eyes

to the blinding hate that is

LIFE?

Would they smile then?

Or would I be joined in my misery

By a few more enlightened

Damned souls

Stranger things have happened

In the land of the blind.

Cioden Darkeye

 

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