Openness

tremors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCIP7VKTSYc

tremors

Volatile material
Resevoir bubbling with a flashpoint
Material stuffed down
Triggered.
By a word, a song, a symbol
Meaning, coincidence, conflagration
Lines up and flash
Detonates
I would say inside my skull
That would be wrong
Body quivering like a taught crossbow string
and unleashed
Driven
By meaning fuelled by fear
Swallowing signals whole
21st Century stimulus
Rolling up and accumulating into the ball
Of manic energy
Danger
To myself
To others?
Give me open fields
and I'll run myself down to safety
Dig a fresh hole under the unseen hedgrow
Burrow down moist earth ten feet and hide
Miles from nowhere
Drenched and panting
To return to myself?
Outrun my terror
Scream to standstill
Instead spinning
Get in my way
Urban sprawl
Catastrophe
Incarceration
Violence
Nobody but you can talk me down
Friends scattered like tenpins
Strangers terrified glances
Whizz past like rain sliding across the speeding windshield
Police
Full stop
Lock me up
Chain me up
Rabid monster
What a waste
Of all that energy

pepper

I have tried to read this thread right through so many times and have to say that so many of the words, lines, verses here are so powerful and hold so much meaning for me that I keep getting stopped in my tracks to take them in.........but for as long as you keep writing them I will keep reading!

PilateOfTheStorm

tremors wrote:

tremors wrote:

W.M.E.

You met someone who gets up
When you put them to the ground
You met someone who knew
How to rise above the screech, smart and sting
So you stung him again
And again
And again
You met someone
On another plane
You know so little
You don't know what you're doing
You met someone better trained than you

You're used to squashing violence
But found it harder to squash peace
You didn't like it when your wristbands
Only brought you greater danger
You believe in brute force
You'll never understand where I've been
I wasn't going to let you take me
I can dig a lot deeper than you

In the end you did what you know best
You increased brutality
Took it over the top
You increased numbers
You couldn't afford to lose
You had to break me
With all that you had
You were frightened
By things you didn't understand
Not everything lies in the text books
They teach in this land
You got your victory
You must have thought you all did a good job

So how come when I saw you last week
It was you that flinched?

Insult to Injury

So you talk
You whisper
You spread your preconception
On the telegraph
You gossip
You break the law
Me a crazy
Not to be touched
By society
You cause me problems
But by the force of what you did to me
The force of my melted insides
I will prevail
And you will fail

My revenge comes in stages
Your sickness
You spend in one go

those two compliment each other so well, i love it.
very very powerful and intense.

favourite lines are:

My revenge comes in stages
Your sickness
You spend in one go

So how come when I saw you last week
It was you that flinched?

very powerful last lines
are these inspired by true events tremors?
seem so vivid, the anger seems raw

tremors

electricxlovex wrote:

tremors wrote:

tremors wrote:

W.M.E.

You met someone who gets up
When you put them to the ground
You met someone who knew
How to rise above the screech, smart and sting
So you stung him again
And again
And again
You met someone
On another plane
You know so little
You don't know what you're doing
You met someone better trained than you

You're used to squashing violence
But found it harder to squash peace
You didn't like it when your wristbands
Only brought you greater danger
You believe in brute force
You'll never understand where I've been
I wasn't going to let you take me
I can dig a lot deeper than you

In the end you did what you know best
You increased brutality
Took it over the top
You increased numbers
You couldn't afford to lose
You had to break me
With all that you had
You were frightened
By things you didn't understand
Not everything lies in the text books
They teach in this land
You got your victory
You must have thought you all did a good job

So how come when I saw you last week
It was you that flinched?

Insult to Injury

So you talk
You whisper
You spread your preconception
On the telegraph
You gossip
You break the law
Me a crazy
Not to be touched
By society
You cause me problems
But by the force of what you did to me
The force of my melted insides
I will prevail
And you will fail

My revenge comes in stages
Your sickness
You spend in one go

those two compliment each other so well, i love it.
very very powerful and intense.

favourite lines are:

My revenge comes in stages
Your sickness
You spend in one go

So how come when I saw you last week
It was you that flinched?

very powerful last lines
are these inspired by true events tremors?
seem so vivid, the anger seems raw

They are both my current perspective on past and now recent events, aimed at the same subject - the British police force

tremors

pepper wrote:

I have tried to read this thread right through so many times and have to say that so many of the words, lines, verses here are so powerful and hold so much meaning for me that I keep getting stopped in my tracks to take them in.........but for as long as you keep writing them I will keep reading!

Thanks very much pepper - if thanks is the right word. Thanks for reading and appreciating. With this kind of 'collection' I feel I have been writing from a different place from previously, and stuff comes out differently, and I don't enjoy reading them back myself so much as other things I have done here in the past. A lot of the material here though has arisen out of other collections I have written here in the past year - where I have thought the writing as stand alone kind of things is probably 'nicer' - these are a bit more raw to me. I don't think I would have wanted to write from these kind of places, nor been able to though, had I not written the earlier stuff - so is a strange one!

PilateOfTheStorm

tremors wrote:

They are both my current perspective on past and now recent events, aimed at the same subject - the British police force

i thought it was against some kind of authority figure

beautiful writing
love the intense anger, very raw emotion
i felt it

rollings

very good

tremors

"You can have your keys back"
Start next week
Have your old life back
Get in your car and find some open road
Your Fixer single is sitting right there where you left it.....
Get in and drive
Say goodbye to that year
And don't look back

tremors

All that you have lost
is all that you have gained
All that pain
is the fire to rise above
Blessed
By turning suffering
To hope