I couldn't think of a name for this poem

Stolen Pencil420Stolen Pencil420 Posts: 119
edited November 2003 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
I need money to get by
I'm sick of this regular high
I feel alive
But I want more
It seems that I shut my own door
Crying to the world about my sorrow
It seems I'm not comfortable in my own skin
And the lies people have been telling me
Are ever-so slowly wearing thin
Cut my locks because they pull me down
Pull me down into the ground
Wicked mind but a beautiful soul
Where I can feel the gaping hole

Afraid to die
Afraid of pain
Praying that I don't go insane
Afraid to cry
Afraid to wane
Can I get rid of the scars inside of me
Purify me and set me free

I have to leave now
Time for sleep
On my mattress
Is where I'll weep...
"Trying to be a person you're not is a waste of the person you really are."- Kurt D. Cobain (R.I.P February 20, 1967- April 5, 1994, we love u Kurt)



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  • Originally posted by Stolen Pencil420
    I need money to get by
    I'm sick of this regular high
    I feel alive
    But I want more
    It seems that I shut my own door
    Crying to the world about my sorrow
    It seems I'm not comfortable in my own skin
    And the lies people have been telling me
    Are ever-so slowly wearing thin
    Cut my locks because they pull me down
    Pull me down into the ground
    Wicked mind but a beautiful soul
    Where I can feel the gaping hole

    Afraid to die
    Afraid of pain
    Praying that I don't go insane
    Afraid to cry
    Afraid to wane
    Can I get rid of the scars inside of me
    Purify me and set me free

    I have to leave now
    Time for sleep
    On my mattress
    Is where I'll weep...

    Touching, oh theif of pencils! I think many of us have a soggy mattress! But you've got to let it out somewhere and your bed can be very comforting and forgiving.

    Don't get too down though, try to free yourself!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • thanx for the concern, belonging to THE BOARD feels kinda like a second family, and I appreciate it.
    "Trying to be a person you're not is a waste of the person you really are."- Kurt D. Cobain (R.I.P February 20, 1967- April 5, 1994, we love u Kurt)



  • Gray World sound pretty cool. Thank you, Overstand.
    "Trying to be a person you're not is a waste of the person you really are."- Kurt D. Cobain (R.I.P February 20, 1967- April 5, 1994, we love u Kurt)



  • And the word "Gray" makes me think of this...

    ~~~

    Rush Hour, 422 West, on a Dreary Monday
    May 13, 2002

    Tourette's
    Screaming at me
    The sky
    Gray and bloated
    spits God's cum on my windshield
    in sticky mockery of drought
    Just open the fuck up already!

    Pour on me
    Rain in my hair
    Wash my skin
    storm crash sweep flood drench whip ANYTHING
    more than this spray of commuter spittle
    Filth-laced spew of a world that doesn't care
    beneath a sun that doesn't shine

    Tourette's
    On repeat in my player
    No, this is almost perfect
    Cobain-belched obscurities before
    A blinding torment of acid rain
    At 80 miles an hour
    Wish the world could for one moment
    Be just as formless as today's bout of despair
    JUST FUCKING RAIN!!

    Show me
    Not everything has lines and distinctions
    I feel like I'm the only speck
    That doesn't

    Unzip the swollen sky above me
    Murkwash this life into blurred tail lights and harried windshield wipers
    Hydroplaning Pontiacs to the tune
    Of dead rock stars
    • 98 Pgh
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