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Andrew Jiang Oct 2011
The life lived in a fog
illuminated by different shades of gray
potentiating an explosion of colors
ever vividly fade into our

dreams

alliterating perfectly with
drained, dread, and dreary
bouncing off of the hard shell of reality
ricocheting through this haze we call

life

is meant to be inhaled and exhaled
with symmetrical patterns
tittering on the balance of fate and faith
inching ever closer to the center of mass:

21 grams

light it up and watch it burn
take a puff and free fall
in the high that is lower than
the lowest lows...

failure?

forces the question of whether
the shattered future will reach
its imaginary destination, or
be forever lost in this

twilight

marks the beginning of another tired cycle
weighted down by the burden of success
caught up in the monochrome movie
that parades its credits before the

ending.
I am ashamed to have written this poem.
Diana Dec 2020
i find it quite peculiar
the extent in which people
including myself
protect their pain

there are so many reasons
and when we are quick to stick with the first explanation
our mind can formulate
it is then when we eliminate
right relationality with one another
when we remove their mystery
and rely on assumptions that lay covered in the illusion of our truth

some protect their pain
because they fear the potential of it potentiating

some protect their pain
because they believe that they deserve it
that peace and joy are not synonymous to their name or life
they keep it as a means of justification for who they are
and what they have become

some protect their pain
because they do not know of a life that is any different
healing is a far away concept that they believe
does not pertain to them

some protect they pain
because they associate it with comfort
due to generational trauma stemmed from childhood

some protect their pain
because the uncertainty that comes with vulnerability
is too high of a price to endure
so they choose to not venture out

do you protect your pain
explore the why

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