All we have:
words fall out like loose teeth,
slip out of swollen mouths,
cut and bend and bleed
striking discord with numbed minds.
No purpose,
only hollow dreams;
no end in sight.
All we have are dusty roads
and crooked street signs,
full graveyards,
hopes shredded into fine fragments of scepticism,
semi-muses in irrelevant poetry,
written in waves of profound emotion,
cut back and butchered
over and over again;
dreamlike characters on movie screens
and books with broken spines
perused with broken hearts:
all paralysed.
All we have are too many words unknown,
too many forgotten,
too many people
suspected of our crimes,
too many abandoned
in a distant foggy past.
All we have is reality,
understood and fought against,
futile struggles as we trudge along.
Ordinary people with shattered dreams.
No end in sight.
February 26, 2017 at 12:30 pm
“All we have is reality,
understood and fought against,” Such a powerful expression of the rejection that is reality. Great piece!
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February 26, 2017 at 1:25 pm
Thank you so much! ^_^ Thanks for reading!
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February 26, 2017 at 2:09 pm
Happy too! 🙂
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February 26, 2017 at 12:49 pm
My words would fall short to describe how much I love this poem. It’s simply divone, profound, aesthetically lovely. You have penned this brilliantly. You are fast becoming one of my most favorite poets. Astounding work
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February 26, 2017 at 1:26 pm
Aw, thanks so much, Rob! Honoured. 🙂
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February 26, 2017 at 1:27 pm
And I’m reblogging it after I find a computer that works!
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February 26, 2017 at 1:47 pm
Oh wow! Thank you so much!!
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February 26, 2017 at 1:52 pm
You’re welcome! I want my community to see just what they are missing
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February 26, 2017 at 2:02 pm
That is so sweet, thank you. :
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February 26, 2017 at 7:23 pm
Hey that’s what I just said lol
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February 26, 2017 at 7:29 pm
Haha. xD
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February 26, 2017 at 2:44 pm
Wauw. That was truly beautiful. I could really feel it as I was reading it.
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February 26, 2017 at 2:47 pm
Thank you so much! I’m glad you liked it. 🙂
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February 27, 2017 at 12:41 am
Reblogged this on Just Ruminating and commented:
Let me tell you folks something, this teenager writes like a young Slyvia Plath! Please, visit her for me. I promise you that you will be floored at how incredibly good her work is, not just the poem you see below. Let’s give a young writer some encouragement today! Many thanks
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February 27, 2017 at 12:50 am
Excellent. Truly inspiring!
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February 27, 2017 at 1:49 am
Thank you so much! 🙂
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February 27, 2017 at 1:51 am
I am so glad you are blogging. Keep it up!
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March 14, 2017 at 5:55 am
Ordinary people with shattered dreams.
No end in sight.
the lines I like most and struck me…
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March 14, 2017 at 12:07 pm
Thank you! 🙂
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March 14, 2017 at 12:08 pm
Thank you!
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