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"seclude" poems
Young athlete who just joined the game Keep your hopes high while running low Towards success must be your aim For you to wend, for you to go E’en if you lose, e’en if you drop Trodden by feet of rivalry Get right back up and never stop And win this race with chivalry Ne’er seclude yourself, ne’er be coy Don’t take in vain each accolade Don’t be too scared, don’t over joy And don’t let worthy honor fade Never go blind with dark distress Nor deaf with roars of losing so Young athlete, don’t apply duress But keep dreams high while running low And even if you go too deep Down the path you should not have set Your worthy honor always keep With bravery, ne’er with regret Keep running on, keep running still At the far end, light you will see Keep running with force, if you will You will soon grasp bright victory And don’t let such grand rewards go But don’t keep them so you may boast Keep your dreams high while running low And keep on trying if you lost
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 4:57 PM UTC
Young Athlete
# * My mother lied to me today When I found out I had to say Oh Mother why’d you tell a lie and from me this thing try to hide? With a coy smile she looked at me and spoke in a voice so softly My dearest son it is my job to keep you safe, away from harm At times that may in fact include in order to hide or seclude the things in life you should not see because you’re simply not ready You may discover on your own Much later in life when you're grown But when you're underneath my wing Your one concern is just to sing Life’s worries I will take for you The stress and hurt I will shield too Life asks a lot and has its pains and slowly these things you’ll be trained But in due time; Have patience son Life's not a race, no need to run So take your time; stop and enjoy One day you will not be a boy Out in the world; learn on your own Keep with you all the things I've shown And piece by piece on each you'll build For you I wish a life fulfilled There is still much you need to learn I shield from you all the concerns It's somewhat understandable You might be slightly gullible Because you're simply not aware So many things from you I've spared Allowed you distance as you grew But always kept an eye on you I gave you room to let you fly To stretch your wings; explore the sky And you may not have seen me there but I did not just disappear No matter the heights you could reach I always had more I could teach So even though at times it seemed Untethered and were not a team Could not be further from the truth Clark Kent changing in a phone booth When needed became Superman If duty called I lent a hand Free range to fly all on your own Solve problems with the skills I've shown A carpenter; I gave the tools But up to you how you would use My hope that given in due time the skills you had would exceed mine And there you'd fly so high above As I look up; heart filled with love Amazing heights I know you'll reach This life we live is up to each of us deciding what to do And I'll always believe in you And just remember as you fly Wherever you go or how high; Into the world I've sent you off to learn life's lessons as their taught So when you look you might not see Think I have gone; Can not find me But whether up or down below I just want you to always know You are my son and I love you No limit to what you can do The distance might be further now But since your birth I kept this vow That you would be under my wing To keep you safe and watch you sing * #
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May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018 at 7:26 PM UTC
A Mother's Lie
# * My mother lied to me today When I found out I had to say Oh Mother why’d you tell a lie and from me this thing try to hide? With a coy smile she looked at me and spoke in a voice so softly My dearest son it is my job to keep you safe, away from harm At times that may in fact include in order to hide or seclude the things in life you should not see because you’re simply not ready You may discover on your own Much later in life when you're grown But when you're underneath my wing Your one concern is just to sing Life’s worries I will take for you The stress and hurt I will shield too Life asks a lot and has its pains and slowly these things you’ll be trained But in due time; Have patience son Life's not a race, no need to run So take your time; stop and enjoy One day you will not be a boy Out in the world; learn on your own Keep with you all the things I've shown And piece by piece on each you'll build For you I wish a life fulfilled There is still much you need to learn I shield from you all the concerns It's somewhat understandable You might be slightly gullible Because you're simply not aware So many things from you I've spared Allowed you distance as you grew But always kept an eye on you I gave you room to let you fly To stretch your wings; explore the sky And you may not have seen me there but I did not just disappear No matter the heights you could reach I always had more I could teach So even though at times it seemed Untethered and were not a team Could not be further from the truth Clark Kent changing in a phone booth When needed became Superman If duty called I lent a hand Free range to fly all on your own Solve problems with the skills I've shown A carpenter; I gave the tools But up to you how you would use My hope that given in due time the skills you had would exceed mine And there you'd fly so high above As I look up; heart filled with love Amazing heights I know you'll reach This life we live is up to each of us deciding what to do And I'll always believe in you And just remember as you fly Wherever you go or how high; Into the world I've sent you off to learn life's lessons as their taught So when you look you might not see Think I have gone; Can not find me But whether up or down below I just want you to always know You are my son and I love you No limit to what you can do The distance might be further now But since your birth I kept this vow That you would be under my wing To keep you safe and watch you sing * #
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I write through the words I could not speak, for every teardrop, lying on her lonely lips; she is my sunset before night comes awake, she is my poetry, in my dreams, when I sleep. I write on the silence embraced by the night, for every hope, foresee but strength to move; I cast myself away from the shadows of life, she is my poetry, in my eyes, when I love. I write those heartaches she tried to seclude, for every doubt, which ever maimed her feet; she is a one perfect love story to be told, she is my poetry, in my grave, on my death.
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May 3, 2012
May 3, 2012 at 6:08 AM UTC
She Is My Poetry
Question 1. can you escape the words that so easily want to roll off your tongue can you put them away see them off on a ship have them cross into the horizon and dissipate under the burning red sun of the east Question 2. Can you replace all letters of an alphabet that easily taught, rolled off your tongue can you put them in a shoe box, seclude them in a corner of your new life, where 80% of the time you are fine Do you think they will cross too cross the horizon, like the things you wish would and then dissipate Question 3. Does the pollution amplify the heat, if so can the heat burn or melt old Polaroids
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Mar 20, 2018
Mar 20, 2018 at 12:42 PM UTC
Question Poems
Tough lesson from my Dear mama Also a letter to my unborn child Life is like a journey that you ride through You have to have Ambitionz as a Ridah But sometimes, life could get really tough That you ask yourself questions like... Is the world against me? Or is it, me against the world? It could "seem" like you're trapped Or out of moves Avoid isolation, it will cause you to shed so many tears And it allows temptations to gush in your mind If you seclude yourself, it could be tougher to resist the temptation Some friends, you hit 'em up and they will turn their backs at you But some will be ready to offer any sort of help and ask you... How do you want it? That's the type you call unconditional love At those daunting times, to prevent drowning You have to keep ya head up Because better days are approaching When everything changes for your good Against all odds, stand strong Say your prayers and your Hail Mary Protect your life and in all that you do Ensure you do for love Guard your dreams Always remind yourself No matter what, keep riding through your journey Life goes on...
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Oct 27, 2018
Oct 27, 2018 at 9:50 PM UTC
Life lessons
let's run away in the middle of the night what you want is what I need seclude ourselves from every trace of the city and we merely inhale and exhale breathe in and breathe out you're a bird so I'm one too I will never leave your side -cj
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Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 10:58 PM UTC
candles
Soon I will be alone. In my own little cave I can hide and be regrown; my own soul I will save. I will seclude myself from all; from disappointment, pain, hate and live behind my wall, until I've learned to appreciate. All I want is to be happy, but, it seems the world is all sad, I can't help but breathe empathy, so I am prevented from being glad. To add to that, I am toxic, and all I touch turns to dust until I learn to focus, I will continue to lose trust. I must learn to deal with this, then attempt the world anew. I need to learn to channel bliss, then I can rejoin all of you.
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Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 at 10:41 PM UTC
meditate to medicate; rebuilding.
My lips are still blisterin, From all that whisperin, that Made me kinda sick, so I Search for my chapstick, but Find in it’s stead, A pen, orn’ry and red, That chooses to be used, And true to my cue, I Seclude and intrude On each and every muse- -ic, -ing, -ment, of my peers. And its clear I have seared Every page I have seen And heard of my herd, Pulled apart at the seems Teeming with teams And half-assessed dreams, that I dreamt But have since beheaded like queens. Yet who is the jester? The joker? The fool? It’s me from your world, your country, your school. It’s me who coos uncool, and caws too rawly And so rarely, Even I’m a bit scared of me No! No fear or fervor is necessary, tremors and Heartstrings tremble headlines on the Daily. Oooh, calm, soothe, my tongue, my soul, my lips, I’ll cool them off but remember all this, or else you May be blistering, and searching, for my lost chapstick, But be lacking in trust, ‘cause I used it all up, Quite a long time before you even lusted that luck.
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Feb 24, 2012
Feb 24, 2012 at 3:04 PM UTC
The Ballad of Gracie Chapstick
hey there, i’ve got some bad news it’ll wrap your neck tight with a noose until your cheeks turn purple-blue and you can’t feel your feet in your shoes you’ll want to pick up a bottle of ***** and down it until your body feels abused you’ll pass out and wake up confused perhaps with a new drunken tattoo all of your friends may be amused but your regret and shame will suffuse each time they point, laugh and slap the bruise you’ll hide your pain ‘cos that’s what strong people do and resentment will ride high through and through ‘til your face turns rock cold and you make the excuse that everyone is ****** and they’re the ones to accuse you’ll abandon your home without saying adieu because you don’t need people that make you feel deduced you don’t need to feel like you are being used to the point you turn dark and only want to seclude from love itself cause you can’t trust that it’s true you can’t trust that it’s safe or that it won’t lead you askew you might want to die, though the thought is so taboo you’ll judge yourself for holding onto society’s views until it comes to the point where you can’t handle the queue the waiting for love gets tough but the whole time you grew and it’s not so bad anymore, it even almost ensues so you get on a boat, and row your canoe out in the river, it’s just the water and you and you’ll realize, finally that you’ve got nothing to lose
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Sep 1, 2012
Sep 1, 2012 at 12:43 PM UTC
bad news is good news (silly little poem)
I hope you don’t judge me By the pigment on my face I hope you see more in me Than the inches around my waist I hope you stop believing That age is a handicap I hope you don’t seclude me If we’re from different places on the map I hope you don’t feel As if I’m a threat to you Just because my choice of partners Is crucified by taboo I am not the inferior gender I demand equal place and pay And when someone wrongs me I hope Society doesn’t push me away I hope you don’t shun me Because my gender is undefined I hope you don’t try your best To crush me in the world’s grind I hope you open your eyes and see That our He was always the same We need to stop all death and destruction That happens in His name I hope this system of division Hasn’t stuck to your mind And when it comes to basic rights I hope I am not left behind                                         - D.S.
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Jul 9, 2019
Jul 9, 2019 at 11:30 PM UTC
HOPE
Sugar of the island; crystalline. Seclude thyself from the fingers of the men of The World. Birds of flight; softened against the earth; hardened against the sky. Avoid rest beneath the head of the men of The World. Fresh water of the brook; serene. Bubble, toil, and rush away from The mouths of the men of The World. Trees of the forest; magnanimous. Stand tenacious before the frailty of them; fortify the earth as it is gouged by the men of The World. Mountains that challenge the heavens; stoic. Hold thyself between them the men, and The World. Salt-water of the sea; viscous. Run thyself down the gullet of the men of The World. Cattle of the fields; naive. Hold thy tongue and stomach; do not slave to the men of The World. Fangs of the exiled hunters; voracious. Bare thy teeth against them; consume the meat of the men of The World. Children of men; ambiguous. Remain at play; thy memory will wither of the men of The World. Men of The World; insolent; gluttonous. Sit idle and fat; thy follies shall decay beneath the history of The World.
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Oct 10, 2018
Oct 10, 2018 at 6:06 PM UTC
The New Ten
Take a second to jot down a few words directly into the post box. Be thankful for the moment you got away today and drove with the windows down to pick up pizza for dinner. You didn't want to step away from your computer, but your parents told you to, so you ran the errand. Driving... yeah... hm... What a nice relief. Remember the music that played and how the wind brushing your arm reminded you of that liberating feeling when you would ride motorcycles in Estero, and it felt like nothing mattered... You just drove and hummed whatever song made you feel the happiest. yeah... Okay. Your procrastination is over, so seclude yourself out on the lanai; brace for the long night ahead. Maybe your friends will wish you a good night and it'll motivate you for the long haul. It hasn't been too long since you last stayed up until 2... 3... maybe 4am, right? Put on that playlist. (It will help.) Let Son Lux provide that numbing white noise, loud enough to keep you energized, quiet enough to let you type. Maybe you'll stay out until you get it done. Maybe you'll just get it over with tonight. Maybe you'll want to stay out, to see the sunrise. Maybe, but for now, finish up your word doodles, your little mindless rants, so you can apply your mind to the "important things". You'll make the best of it. (I know you will.) Maybe you'll have fun with it. Maybe you'll be proud of it. Maybe you'll forget everything you've learned, Maybe, but for now, this is your time to write, your time to prove yourself, so you can tell the rest of the world, "I did it."
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Apr 27, 2018
Apr 27, 2018 at 8:55 PM UTC
Motivation Mechanisms
Take a second to jot down a few words directly into the post box. Be thankful for the moment you got away today and drove with the windows down to pick up pizza for dinner. You didn't want to step away from your computer, but your parents told you to, so you ran the errand. Driving... yeah... hm... What a nice relief. Remember the music that played and how the wind brushing your arm reminded you of that liberating feeling when you would ride motorcycles in Estero, and it felt like nothing mattered... You just drove and hummed whatever song made you feel the happiest. yeah... Okay. Your procrastination is over, so seclude yourself out on the lanai; brace for the long night ahead. Maybe your friends will wish you a good night and it'll motivate you for the long haul. It hasn't been too long since you last stayed up until 2... 3... maybe 4am, right? Put on that playlist. (It will help.) Let Son Lux provide that numbing white noise, loud enough to keep you energized, quiet enough to let you type. Maybe you'll stay out until you get it done. Maybe you'll just get it over with tonight. Maybe you'll want to stay out, to see the sunrise. Maybe, but for now, finish up your word doodles, your little mindless rants, so you can apply your mind to the "important things". You'll make the best of it. (I know you will.) Maybe you'll have fun with it. Maybe you'll be proud of it. Maybe you'll forget everything you've learned, Maybe, but for now, this is your time to write, your time to prove yourself, so you can tell the rest of the world, "I did it."
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• I seclude myself in the dark pit, So that no one could hurt me and push me to hell for my demise, And so I am here sitting and crouch in melancholy, As the beating of my heart join the euphony of silence & darkness in unison, I feel numb and yet happy with the tranquility, But suddenly I felt the tears racing down my cheeks and then I start wailing, I breakdown in fragments and pick it by myself, I am gradually dying with no console, Even my shadow left me in vain, My soul scream for help, But end up with nothingness, I reach out my hand hoping for someone to lift me up, But nobody is there for me, I only got my will to keep me on my feet, I only got my faith to stand up and move forward. © Earl Jane ♥ E.J.C.S.
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Jan 23, 2017
Jan 23, 2017 at 4:53 PM UTC
Dark Pit of Solitude
"I've been told that to fix the problem, you must first find its root... But you can't fix something that's not broken. I am not broken, just slightly damaged. My mind is like a thousand year old oak tree, and my facade as fragile as porcelain. My emotions act as a wrecking ball and when the night hits I'm nothing but a decaying mask. I fear pain, so I don't welcome love. I turn it away; a ruthless rejection, and send it back to where it came from. It haunts me, and in the night my own demons become insomnia. To fix the problem, I must first find its root."  Or perhaps I mustn't focus on finding the root, I think the real issue might be that I am conscious that there are monsters in my head and my insomnia is result to the ongoing battle I have with myself and those monsters. Weather to love them or hate them, I do not know.  They save me and protect me, yet they seclude me from the rush of risk and beauty of bewilderment. When I lay in my bed my body feels great fatigue but my mind and my eyes are wide awake; ready to run circles around the world if they could. I no longer think that the solution would be to find a root or a specific turning point, but to end the battle of contradiction with the monsters that have taken over my thoughts and stolen my sleep. So do I love them because they protect me and have made me a smarter person? Or Do I hate them because they are the bricks that make up the walls I have built and they are the guards holding the riffles at the top of the walls shooting every single beautiful daring soul in their attempt to reach the real me? I will hate them. Yes the souls that have hurt me right after gaining my trust are the reason to my hurt and the nutrition to the growth of my monsters, but the very own monsters themselves are the ones responsible for my inability to recover from the inevitable hurt. They have Inprisoned me in this constant dark and uttermost thick desolation. It is because of how overpowered I am by them that I fail every single time in my attempt to breath. They are suffocating me and burying me in a state so dark I fear the incapacity to  get myself out. It is a journey of endless work, the wounds i have will eventually heal, but there will always be scars. It's like an addiction, even after being clean and sober the want of the drug will always be as great as it was the first time. So the fragility of my scars is so great it is completely capable to revert me back into the dark whole if i get hurt or scared again. i need to realize and accept that these things are inevitable and not close myself but open myself even more for the next person. The final solution will be to accept that the mosters?they are their, acknowledge them, deal with them, and never let them take over and do what they want with me. Then and only then will I be able to sleep.
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Sep 2, 2014
Sep 2, 2014 at 9:27 AM UTC
Insomnia
"I've been told that to fix the problem, you must first find its root... But you can't fix something that's not broken. I am not broken, just slightly damaged. My mind is like a thousand year old oak tree, and my facade as fragile as porcelain. My emotions act as a wrecking ball and when the night hits I'm nothing but a decaying mask. I fear pain, so I don't welcome love. I turn it away; a ruthless rejection, and send it back to where it came from. It haunts me, and in the night my own demons become insomnia. To fix the problem, I must first find its root."  Or perhaps I mustn't focus on finding the root, I think the real issue might be that I am conscious that there are monsters in my head and my insomnia is result to the ongoing battle I have with myself and those monsters. Weather to love them or hate them, I do not know.  They save me and protect me, yet they seclude me from the rush of risk and beauty of bewilderment. When I lay in my bed my body feels great fatigue but my mind and my eyes are wide awake; ready to run circles around the world if they could. I no longer think that the solution would be to find a root or a specific turning point, but to end the battle of contradiction with the monsters that have taken over my thoughts and stolen my sleep. So do I love them because they protect me and have made me a smarter person? Or Do I hate them because they are the bricks that make up the walls I have built and they are the guards holding the riffles at the top of the walls shooting every single beautiful daring soul in their attempt to reach the real me? I will hate them. Yes the souls that have hurt me right after gaining my trust are the reason to my hurt and the nutrition to the growth of my monsters, but the very own monsters themselves are the ones responsible for my inability to recover from the inevitable hurt. They have Inprisoned me in this constant dark and uttermost thick desolation. It is because of how overpowered I am by them that I fail every single time in my attempt to breath. They are suffocating me and burying me in a state so dark I fear the incapacity to  get myself out. It is a journey of endless work, the wounds i have will eventually heal, but there will always be scars. It's like an addiction, even after being clean and sober the want of the drug will always be as great as it was the first time. So the fragility of my scars is so great it is completely capable to revert me back into the dark whole if i get hurt or scared again. i need to realize and accept that these things are inevitable and not close myself but open myself even more for the next person. The final solution will be to accept that the mosters?they are their, acknowledge them, deal with them, and never let them take over and do what they want with me. Then and only then will I be able to sleep.
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*I heard painful derision of the nightfall drawn me to seclude my talent into the unknown place where it was not born futile. It has been years since you ate my mind; since we met in that strange road where all melancholies diverged, you have been my relief, my friend and my witness when I was crippled by tears. I seldom asked the mirrors, why should I continue? If there are thousands of people outside our worlds who could create you better than I, who could make you more attractive than my pen? Why should I continue my dreams? And so I almost gave up, surrendered in peace; I always wake up on the wrong side of the bed. I was sailing edges of the oceans just to seek for a masterpiece, but I was fooled by my selfish intentions and so I laughed at myself for length, for there were a bunch of times I could not even bestow you a single word. I was totally bruised; buried my feet on the ground. Others love my poetry, others just trifle, others read it aloud that no one can hear, others in facade of silence. It matters no more, I have critics then. I write not to impress, but simply to express my undefined emotions, and unstitched fantasies. Well, composing you is little bit hard for my part, but you were a butterfly in my heart.*
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Feb 20, 2012
Feb 20, 2012 at 5:11 AM UTC
Hello Poetry
It’s a simple, mundane day, yet busy with an absolute slew of schoolwork I take up a table in the library, high up on the 4th floor, overlooking The shapes below with different work in the same time and place There’s a large model airplane, an early model, Suspended by cables that attach themselves to the far walls, Yielding the illusion of mid-flight It appears I wasn’t the only one with the idea to seclude myself this high; Around me are the detached murmurs of still more students, bent On the conclusion of their labors, some more eager than I, some less so And closer to me, on a juxtaposed table, is another student, about my age Shuffling through what looks like math But I don’t pride myself much on intrusion, so I let him be For hours we all toiled, us in the 4th floor and us down below The music of light concentration, fluttering pages, a utensil, Swathing through those immobile wings and dwindling on the propeller The time is rapidly becoming the enemy in all our bingo books And of the books stacked in the cluster of cases, some of which will no doubt remind one Of the timeless saying that ‘time waits for no one’ The student of the table next to me is still at work, and I’m still at work And people file in and out of the door which leads downstairs, Faces going in with indignance and a foreknowledge of what they’re to do Faces leaving triumphant, secured in another day’s duty crossed off I steal a look at the student close to me I see him pass a tired hand over his eyes (I agree with his plight) By now we’ve been swarmed with a million like us Jumping from table to table to seat to seat, in groups or in respectable solitude A veritable mosaic of people, a timelapse in ironic real-time, elapsed second onto second The darkness crowds the unlucky surfaces of the windows, tries to push in And like lichen stuck to sea rocks amid a terrible tidal storm we remain Jaded and mentally broken down, but finally we see each other He looks at me dully, I return it with a shrug and the slightest smirk And I think we both understand it Though no words needed to pass through the air, nor signals of the eyebrows, The hand, the heavy persistent sigh We’ve seen the lapse, just us and the jetstream of the world unending And he looks away, and I look away at the suspended plane, still as it ever was
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Feb 11, 2013
Feb 11, 2013 at 10:48 PM UTC
Observations of the 4th Floor
It’s a simple, mundane day, yet busy with an absolute slew of schoolwork I take up a table in the library, high up on the 4th floor, overlooking The shapes below with different work in the same time and place There’s a large model airplane, an early model, Suspended by cables that attach themselves to the far walls, Yielding the illusion of mid-flight It appears I wasn’t the only one with the idea to seclude myself this high; Around me are the detached murmurs of still more students, bent On the conclusion of their labors, some more eager than I, some less so And closer to me, on a juxtaposed table, is another student, about my age Shuffling through what looks like math But I don’t pride myself much on intrusion, so I let him be For hours we all toiled, us in the 4th floor and us down below The music of light concentration, fluttering pages, a utensil, Swathing through those immobile wings and dwindling on the propeller The time is rapidly becoming the enemy in all our bingo books And of the books stacked in the cluster of cases, some of which will no doubt remind one Of the timeless saying that ‘time waits for no one’ The student of the table next to me is still at work, and I’m still at work And people file in and out of the door which leads downstairs, Faces going in with indignance and a foreknowledge of what they’re to do Faces leaving triumphant, secured in another day’s duty crossed off I steal a look at the student close to me I see him pass a tired hand over his eyes (I agree with his plight) By now we’ve been swarmed with a million like us Jumping from table to table to seat to seat, in groups or in respectable solitude A veritable mosaic of people, a timelapse in ironic real-time, elapsed second onto second The darkness crowds the unlucky surfaces of the windows, tries to push in And like lichen stuck to sea rocks amid a terrible tidal storm we remain Jaded and mentally broken down, but finally we see each other He looks at me dully, I return it with a shrug and the slightest smirk And I think we both understand it Though no words needed to pass through the air, nor signals of the eyebrows, The hand, the heavy persistent sigh We’ve seen the lapse, just us and the jetstream of the world unending And he looks away, and I look away at the suspended plane, still as it ever was
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I suppose he thought I needed to be tamed, or required reprimandation & obedience training, because he could simply never let me BE... myself without an open invitation for some harsh admonishment or crippling criticism. I must have painted a target that begged for his attention on the core of my soul because he loved the thrill in taking aim & shooting to **** He still colors my characterizations of the men I meet, who ask me for insight into my mind, & he leads me to question the intention behind any stranger's simple gesture. He told me he loved me, but he held me much too tight like a petulant child who refuses to share or suffocates a butterfly clutched in between his hands - because its beauty inspired a selfish need to seclude it away for one's self.   He told me he needed me, that without me he would be left to falter blindly through a nebulous black night, yet he stood so close to my flame that it was inundated, & he smothered his source of warmth & illumination. A fire needs to breathe if it is to rage & be magnificent - he knew that & he feared it tremendously. He taught me to fear myself & undermined my capability to silence those who shook my confidence. In doing so he left me teetering on a decrepit foundation & he so delighted in kicking bricks out from beneath me. He pushed me down & taught me to be terrified of falling dreading the arousal of self empowerment & ambition to welcome an opportunity to pick myself back up again. He tried to tether me to land, like a flightless bird - inert & with no purpose. He thought he had me hooked like an inhumane bully who allows a fish to fight his line until it believes it has once again attained liberation, then roughly reels it in, relishing in sick indulgence. He thought he had me tethered, but I am not worn-out & weathered like an old leather ball & I am not to be beaten round in endless circles, the obsolete plaything battered by systematic violence made into child's play.   I said no & walked away. I broke my tether that day. & I never looked back.
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Aug 28, 2015
Aug 28, 2015 at 1:00 AM UTC
Tether
I suppose he thought I needed to be tamed, or required reprimandation & obedience training, because he could simply never let me BE... myself without an open invitation for some harsh admonishment or crippling criticism. I must have painted a target that begged for his attention on the core of my soul because he loved the thrill in taking aim & shooting to **** He still colors my characterizations of the men I meet, who ask me for insight into my mind, & he leads me to question the intention behind any stranger's simple gesture. He told me he loved me, but he held me much too tight like a petulant child who refuses to share or suffocates a butterfly clutched in between his hands - because its beauty inspired a selfish need to seclude it away for one's self.   He told me he needed me, that without me he would be left to falter blindly through a nebulous black night, yet he stood so close to my flame that it was inundated, & he smothered his source of warmth & illumination. A fire needs to breathe if it is to rage & be magnificent - he knew that & he feared it tremendously. He taught me to fear myself & undermined my capability to silence those who shook my confidence. In doing so he left me teetering on a decrepit foundation & he so delighted in kicking bricks out from beneath me. He pushed me down & taught me to be terrified of falling dreading the arousal of self empowerment & ambition to welcome an opportunity to pick myself back up again. He tried to tether me to land, like a flightless bird - inert & with no purpose. He thought he had me hooked like an inhumane bully who allows a fish to fight his line until it believes it has once again attained liberation, then roughly reels it in, relishing in sick indulgence. He thought he had me tethered, but I am not worn-out & weathered like an old leather ball & I am not to be beaten round in endless circles, the obsolete plaything battered by systematic violence made into child's play.   I said no & walked away. I broke my tether that day. & I never looked back.
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Champagne bottles on the ground Glitter splattered on walls Tried to wash it all off But it has stained the walls Mascara on my face Tried to clean the evidence of pain But it hurts to confront it I'll leave the wound to fester Knocking on the door Oh dear, Oh dear Leave me alone I won't come out, I won't come out Might as well be hell One more drink, One more drink Please Don't watch me, Don't watch me Leave Close the door, Close the door Seclude myself in the cold Chandeliers swinging, half broken, lights flickering And I am the one swinging Trying to make the last chain break into pieces But it keeps holding on Why won't it break I just want to fall Feel my face on the ground The Chandelier continues to shine while I try to die I am holding on to dear life Won't try to save myself though Might as well try to let go Maybe the Chandelier will fall, I am not sure Glasses crackle under the pressure of my hands Feel bad that I am destroying it But I need your demise so I can die © Sofia Villagrana 2018
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May 9, 2018
May 9, 2018 at 11:20 AM UTC
Chandelier
I saw it a few days ago I chanced a glance into the void The place in which all emotions fall and seclude themselves The place where there are no stars and there is nothing but loud space She'd just tore away from me A small tear in the muslin But she pulled and pulled Until the void was exposed in my shredded star chart That subtle darkness in the undertones undulating thickly Turbulent waves beneath the glorified surface thinness And behind the closed door it- It was just a second really And the hopeless scientist behind me The dark and big and pragmatic and meek He didn't see But he knew And he wanted it back And again She left me frayed In another winter Before I could look to the skies and find meaning When our world was lit only by the fires of forthcoming fears and futile flickers What clouded the far-off pinpricks, the soft pinching of reality knocking at my door? It was her straight-edge fragility And her straight-edge solution Now her world is lit by a different kind of fire A fire that numbs So she said A fire that heals So she claims A flickering flame that destroys every membrane of my being And binds my hands to my feet And shoots wildly across the sky So I cry And I weep And I, a universe of atoms feel like a lost atom in her universe I safely encased in my crinkled paper, but Hot holes slowly eat their way through No maps or constellations face any competition before her But all she sees is a world of comets and fire My short fuse is wilted So she unzips her skin with a zippo And she freezes time And she runs across my horizon Bright, beautiful, blazing She is forever above my hands Her path unseen and unforseeable A spectators daydream The astrologists' nightmare
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Aug 12, 2013
Aug 12, 2013 at 12:04 AM UTC
The Astrologist's Nightmare
I saw it a few days ago I chanced a glance into the void The place in which all emotions fall and seclude themselves The place where there are no stars and there is nothing but loud space She'd just tore away from me A small tear in the muslin But she pulled and pulled Until the void was exposed in my shredded star chart That subtle darkness in the undertones undulating thickly Turbulent waves beneath the glorified surface thinness And behind the closed door it- It was just a second really And the hopeless scientist behind me The dark and big and pragmatic and meek He didn't see But he knew And he wanted it back And again She left me frayed In another winter Before I could look to the skies and find meaning When our world was lit only by the fires of forthcoming fears and futile flickers What clouded the far-off pinpricks, the soft pinching of reality knocking at my door? It was her straight-edge fragility And her straight-edge solution Now her world is lit by a different kind of fire A fire that numbs So she said A fire that heals So she claims A flickering flame that destroys every membrane of my being And binds my hands to my feet And shoots wildly across the sky So I cry And I weep And I, a universe of atoms feel like a lost atom in her universe I safely encased in my crinkled paper, but Hot holes slowly eat their way through No maps or constellations face any competition before her But all she sees is a world of comets and fire My short fuse is wilted So she unzips her skin with a zippo And she freezes time And she runs across my horizon Bright, beautiful, blazing She is forever above my hands Her path unseen and unforseeable A spectators daydream The astrologists' nightmare
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When you stop needing someone It is not that you want to be alone Understanding that if ever you have to You'll be fine on your own There is undescribable freedom attached No-BIRTHED by solitude There absolutely is no greater power Than peace in mind when you self-seclude The most effective weapon held in your defense To fight pain and heartache Is learning the talent of being by yourself Everyone else is unprepared for the break
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Oct 29, 2024
Oct 29, 2024 at 1:32 AM UTC
Self-Seclusion
Sometimes I just want to exist and have nobody know that I do. I think they call that solitude. The struggle comes with the quite often daily battle against the innate human nature within me that yearns for social interaction, inclusion, or as I see it invasion. Invasion of my life, who I am, and what it makes me. At times I accept the compliments and the positive remarks aimed at me by others but for the most part I shy away as though it’s all I know to be a pessimist. It is almost as though I am constantly battling against my inner self with the vibrant urge to seclude myself from anyone and anything that is remotely like a positive influence as though I don’t deserve to be liked or accepted.
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 11:02 PM UTC
Seclusion
Light breeds shadow In the form of fear Consuming my immortality bit by bit Creating a fiend That guzzle up my happiness Till the deepest core of my conscience Remorselessly Piecemeal I am dying from my own trepidation That agitates me Whether to choose malevolence That is sweet and warming Or to choose benevolence That is pain and suffering Only the saint's heart will find its way With the least tainted loopholes Gifted by the brute to the paradise god has created Destitute and feeling obselete Failed to be absolute I seclude myself To a silence so deafening And the temperature is dropping While the loneliness is creeping In fetal position On this oversize king bed With blue bed shed But no blanket Vainer, i thought.
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Jan 11, 2016
Jan 11, 2016 at 10:29 AM UTC
Cherophobia
I go when my head is over crowded with thoughts, When my heart is overwhelmed with feelings, And when the ignorant and shrill voices of my family and peers are too much to bear. I seclude myself within the walls of the auditorium. In the auditorium, there are endless possibilities, It is filled with a vast emptiness of echoing silence. It is so nice to hear silence. I walk up on stage and close my eyes, Not to visualize a performance, but to listen. I stand. I stand till I can’t feel my body. Till I can’t feel anything . Till I cease to exist. I sing. I sing not to hear the words, only the notes. The sound floats up like a cloud. It floats, swells, and fills, as I breathe life into the room. Each note echoes blending one into the other. It fills my ears and my mind, Until there are no more thoughts No more tears Only music.
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Mar 13, 2010
Mar 13, 2010 at 5:19 PM UTC
I Go
I drink lipton tea And sit and think about what we could be Soul searching like a ghost Girl let me hold you close Come with me quick Before my pain ends this note I drink lipton tea And sit and think about what we could be When financialy I could be the foundation Me and you could multiply to fill our nation Or seclude ourself from the world It could be just me and you baby girl I drink lipton tea As I sit and think what we could be Mentally we could already be Bcuz I live with you in my dreams In a blue painted house With a black painted gate I work from 5 to 9 And always come home on time I drink lipton tea As I sit and think what we could be So at the end of this rhyme We could get lost in time Hoping the nay sayers never find us So at the end of this rhyme You can see what I see in me and you The love we can make and things we could do
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Dec 19, 2012
Dec 19, 2012 at 7:14 PM UTC
Lipton Tea