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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: What we really see

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Today you stepped all over meThen cursed my very existenceAs if it was my fault thatYour shoe was muddied with my persistence Just a week ago I was someone's desireAnd now I lay to wasteYou wish somebody had cleaned me upAnd done it with great hasteYou wouldn't know it by looking at meBut I used to be very sweetThen my life w... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Struggle in life

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optimistic pessimisttheres a punchline there i must have missedyou feel good about feeling badhow can you be happy about something so sadyour make-up wont help you make up your mindyou're deaf in a world where everyones blindbeauty to you is a slap in the facea morbid reminder of the dream you chasebut in your perfection for ... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Depression

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Today crumbles into tomorrowThe shade falls away as the pendulum swingsYour loneliness creates your sorrowSo you seek the comfort that only death bringsWith strands of time you weave your fateYet your fingers are uncertainFor how are you to ever createWhen you've not met the man behind the curtainBehind your eyes lies a land ... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Inner struggles

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I object to the object of my desireMy mistakes are baked into cakes and put over an open fireInside I'm a sinless saintOutside I'm mangled with no hope of recoveryAll because of one incandescent memoryRetaliation is my only chanceSave the masses, stop the danceTry not to see my past as yoursThere's no truth behind my doorsInc... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Finding yourself

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Wind, carry me through the brush in my pathThe thorns, oh the thorns, how I fear their wrathNot once have I wronged to deserve this fateWallowed, perhaps, for one moment in hateNot once nor twice have I thrown sticks or stonesI've buried the past but never the bonesNor did I tolerate them hung in my closetIt remains empty for... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Humorous

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Tumbling out of the dryer aloneEmerged one sock, dry to the boneFrom his comrades, congrats were sungAnd to his honor he statically clungThe battle began when I turned the dial to startThis lucky sock triumphed over his counterpartHe was weary from battle and with fatigue on his heelHe climbed on my foot so I didn't blister o... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Drug addiction

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It's a cold bitter wind that warms my heartIt's so close to me yet we're so far apartLights flicker, dancing to my breathMy heart races as I feel the grip of deathSo long lonely mornings, hello lonely nightsMy will to live has lost all its fightsThe addiction helps the pain but the pain hates the addictionI am not a victimClo... More..

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