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Do I really have to?

justamjustam Posts: 21,410
edited April 2008 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Do I really have to?
(learn to be like them?)
selfish, thoughtless
(oh God!)
stupid, self-centered, shallow
(even mean)
late, dragged, dead-weight
(struggling-but-silent)
pushed, knocked, kicked again!
I'm
being forced into a room
(that one, there, where)
I've gotta learn how
oh...
why?
that's the only way?
stop
to be like those?
uh
but I don't...
oh
that type?
really?
Noooooooooooooo!!
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  • redmosquito10redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    Nice poem. For some reason I picture a pre-teen girl when I read it, but it applies to just about anyone with just as much validity. At least they said no at the end, even if it does sound like a death cry.
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    redmosquito10 wrote:
    Nice poem. For some reason I picture a pre-teen girl when I read it, but it applies to just about anyone with just as much validity. At least they said no at the end, even if it does sound like a death cry.

    Wow. I can see how you might read it that way but it was actually about an internal struggle...

    About noticing other people and what works for them...thinking about the bad qualities that seem to help them get what they want....not wanting to become like that, but wondering why they are successful with those qualities...
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  • memememe Posts: 4,695
    "she could be another clone..."

    I like your poem :)
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    meme wrote:
    "she could be another clone..."

    I like your poem :)

    Thanks meme :)
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  • redmosquito10redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    justam wrote:
    Wow. I can see how you might read it that way but it was actually about an internal struggle...

    About noticing other people and what works for them...thinking about the bad qualities that seem to help them get what they want....not wanting to become like that, but wondering why they are successful with those qualities...


    I got the internal struggle, that part came across strong. I just meant that in each of us, that internal struggle manifests itself in a struggle to avoid becoming the typical, undesirable human. But, the interpretation that you thought I had, I also like, so I'll just take credit for that one too. I'm so versatile.
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    redmosquito10 wrote:
    I got the internal struggle, that part came across strong. I just meant that in each of us, that internal struggle manifests itself in a struggle to avoid becoming the typical, undesirable human. But, the interpretation that you thought I had, I also like, so I'll just take credit for that one too. I'm so versatile.

    OK. :)
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