#detatched - Hello Poetry

You watch the world go by, content You need not change a thing Warm, yet distant from the heat Watching, unaffected and not affecting, you smile You could watch the world burn and the heat wouldn’t touch you You’ve already faded, you’re jaded, scars lost long ago You’re an Orange Outsider Insusceptible, unimpressionable You’ve surrendered, yet you continue on Looking on Watching waves crash With a worn smile and dulled Orange eyes

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Jun 9, 2019

Jun 9, 2019 at 4:47 PM UTC

Keplar

Orange Outsider

You watch the world go by, content You need not change a thing Warm, yet distant from the heat Watching, unaffected and not affecting, you smile You could watch the world burn and the heat wouldn’t touch you You’ve already faded, you’re jaded, scars lost long ago You’re an Orange Outsider Insusceptible, unimpressionable You’ve surrendered, yet you continue on Looking on Watching waves crash With a worn smile and dulled Orange eyes

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When it fades, its like a candle that ceases to exist and so the flame was never lit.. You cherished a moment that was as threadbare as the good reflections of us. I look into your being and I see through you as my heart now sees nothing within.

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Sep 28, 2016

Sep 28, 2016 at 5:10 PM UTC

poetic-t

Detatched From The Heart

When it fades, its like a candle that ceases to exist and so the flame was never lit.. You cherished a moment that was as threadbare as the good reflections of us. I look into your being and I see through you as my heart now sees nothing within.

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They say machines are built not born. By definition a machine is an apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task. So what separates a machine from a human? Most would say a heart, a brain, a soul. The ability to have compassion and morals. As a human what happens when all those aforementioned are lost? Think about the movie The Wizard of Oz. We have a woman, Dorothy who, in her journey, helps a lion find courage, a tin man find a heart, and a scarecrow find a brain. At the end of the movie all of which are found. Now let's play the movie in reverse. Let's say they all started off with the things they lacked and throughout the journey they lost those things that made them human. In what case would a human lose those things that make them human to begin with? Maybe disaster or love lost? Events that take place in our lives that eventually break us down to primitive beings in which we go into an autopilot state where survival is the only subconscious focus. We're hand fed drugs to help us cope, block out the bad, make up for what society thinks we lack. "Chemical imbalance". Highs that make us forget for brief periods that our lives **** and make everything more bearable. If I'm trying to put a barricade between myself and misfortune then I'm also blocking the good that is also trying to enter. I don't get butterflies around the girl I adore anymore because I'm taking medicine to help with anxiety and depression, when before that, she was one of the things that made me forget and helped me cope. She was my high. Now I have shut myself off. Anhedonia sets in. I can't feel anything. Those things that once made me human have now been lost. Thus, a machine is born.

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Feb 10, 2015

Feb 10, 2015 at 11:23 AM UTC

travis-fugate

Machines Are Nothing Without Mechanics

They say machines are built not born. By definition a machine is an apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task. So what separates a machine from a human? Most would say a heart, a brain, a soul. The ability to have compassion and morals. As a human what happens when all those aforementioned are lost? Think about the movie The Wizard of Oz. We have a woman, Dorothy who, in her journey, helps a lion find courage, a tin man find a heart, and a scarecrow find a brain. At the end of the movie all of which are found. Now let's play the movie in reverse. Let's say they all started off with the things they lacked and throughout the journey they lost those things that made them human. In what case would a human lose those things that make them human to begin with? Maybe disaster or love lost? Events that take place in our lives that eventually break us down to primitive beings in which we go into an autopilot state where survival is the only subconscious focus. We're hand fed drugs to help us cope, block out the bad, make up for what society thinks we lack. "Chemical imbalance". Highs that make us forget for brief periods that our lives **** and make everything more bearable. If I'm trying to put a barricade between myself and misfortune then I'm also blocking the good that is also trying to enter. I don't get butterflies around the girl I adore anymore because I'm taking medicine to help with anxiety and depression, when before that, she was one of the things that made me forget and helped me cope. She was my high. Now I have shut myself off. Anhedonia sets in. I can't feel anything. Those things that once made me human have now been lost. Thus, a machine is born.

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My blood runs cold My heart beats slow; and I can see the world groaning as it spins upon the point of a finger. My pupils dilate I fear it may be too late; and trees are twisting mouths are yawning open to swallow the stars. My veins contract Life no longer intact; so far from the horizon and that burning bright sun dazzling my blind creamy eyes.

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Apr 25, 2014

Apr 25, 2014 at 7:37 PM UTC

anastasia-webb

Insanity

My blood runs cold My heart beats slow; and I can see the world groaning as it spins upon the point of a finger. My pupils dilate I fear it may be too late; and trees are twisting mouths are yawning open to swallow the stars. My veins contract Life no longer intact; so far from the horizon and that burning bright sun dazzling my blind creamy eyes.

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