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little one

pacifierpacifier Posts: 1,009
edited November 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
it's okay little one
it's okay little one
look at what they've done
it's okay little one

i'll nurse you back to health
you don't have to be a star
you don't have to be
who they say you are

i'll sit here in your silence
i'll breathe in your emotion
i will share the pain
i'll drown in your ocean

i will rock you in my arms
and whisper comfort words
and pray what i am saying
is what is being heard

you've come to the cross roads
here you have a choice
you can cry out with your violence
or speak out with your voice

you can choose the road around the bend
or the clear path ahead
you're always being followed
never being led

stop now, you need to rest
i'll pick you up and show the way
if you can't trust yourself
then trust in me, a brand new day
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  • Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    This poem made me smile, pacifier. :)

    I really, really loved this stanza:

    "you've come to the cross roads
    here you have a choice
    you can cry out with your violence
    or speak out with your voice"

    the way you worded the last two lines here really grabs me. Excellent! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • twin2twin2 Posts: 894
    "I will rock you in my arms
    and whisper comfort words
    and pray what i am saying
    is what is being heard

    you've come to the cross roads
    here you have a choice
    you can cry out with your violence
    or speak out with your voice"

    I really like these words above alot.
  • pacifierpacifier Posts: 1,009
    codedbrandedlabelled wrote:
    i like your poem could i print it out and put it on my wall?

    thank you. no need to ask, feel free to print it out.
  • pacifierpacifier Posts: 1,009
    Being Enlightened wrote:
    This poem made me smile, pacifier. :)

    I really, really loved this stanza:

    "you've come to the cross roads
    here you have a choice
    you can cry out with your violence
    or speak out with your voice"

    the way you worded the last two lines here really grabs me. Excellent! :)

    Thanks. This poem is is a re-organisation and re-wording of a poem I wrote when I was 18 about some who had killed themselves, not someone I knew personally, but it made me think if I had known them would there have been anything I could have done. Obviously that poem had a bad ending. This one is one of hope before someone gets to that stage. Anyway, in the original those two lines were slightly different
    "you can speak out with your violence
    or scream out with your voice"
    I was trying to say that the voice was louder
    this time I was thinking that the violence was a cry for help, and the voice was rational, calm.
  • pacifierpacifier Posts: 1,009
    twin2 wrote:
    "I will rock you in my arms
    and whisper comfort words
    and pray what i am saying
    is what is being heard

    you've come to the cross roads
    here you have a choice
    you can cry out with your violence
    or speak out with your voice"

    I really like these words above alot.

    thanks. in the original it was slightly different...
    If I could rock you in my arms
    and whisper comfort words
    if i could do this
    who's to say they would be heard
  • depopulationINCdepopulationINC Posts: 2,074
    I really like this one!
    The only thing I enjoy is having no feelings....being numb rocks!

    And I won't make the same mistakes
    (Because I know)
    Because I know how much time that wastes
    (And function)
    Function is the key
  • pacifierpacifier Posts: 1,009
    depopulationINC wrote:
    I really like this one!
    that's good to hear :) where did you get off to? hope you were ok.
  • depopulationINCdepopulationINC Posts: 2,074
    pacifier wrote:
    that's good to hear :) where did you get off to? hope you were ok.

    i was on a trip of sorts
    The only thing I enjoy is having no feelings....being numb rocks!

    And I won't make the same mistakes
    (Because I know)
    Because I know how much time that wastes
    (And function)
    Function is the key
  • pacifierpacifier Posts: 1,009
    depopulationINC wrote:
    i was on a trip of sorts
    of sorts? lots of things can be described as a trip, so maybe i don't want to ask further, but i'm glad you're back, as I'm sure many here are.
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