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Array ( [sid] => 108558 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Smiling to Forget the Pain [time] => 2005-10-27 02:54:11 [hometext] => * I wrote this poem about 2 months ago or so and forgot about it and then I found it the other day and now I am posting it. I will be away for a week so I hope this poem will quench any desires you have to read my poems. * [bodytext] => I glimpsed you in the mirror
For not more than a second,
But in that second I saw...
So much
You laughing and making jokes
As you sliced at your wrists
All your pain was met with laughter
The cutting, drugs, rape, rejection
I guess it was your way
Of hiding your terrible pain

And one day you couldn't hold it inside
Your head just... exploded
I remember that day well
The painful sense of loss
The tears that wouldn't stop
I never saw the gun
Still clutched in your pretty hand
(It was only mentioned after,
at your funeral, to paint you as the bad person)
I only noticed the blood
That stained your pretty frock

But before they took you away
And cleaned off the walls and floor
I bent down and kissed the remains of your face
I smelled the sour stench of death,
But even in death
A faint wisp of a smile
Still graced your serene face [comments] => 6 [counter] => 299 [topic] => 36 [informant] => bobotheclown [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 23 [ratings] => 7 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Suicide )

Smiling to Forget the Pain

Contributed by bobotheclown on Thursday, 27th October 2005 @ 02:54:11 AM in AEST
Topic: Suicide

I glimpsed you in the mirror
For not more than a second,
But in that second I saw...
So much
You laughing and making jokes
As you sliced at your wrists
All your pain was met with laughter
The cutting, drugs, rape, rejection
I guess it was your way
Of hiding your terrible pain

And one day you couldn't hold it inside
Your head just... exploded
I remember that day well
The painful sense of loss
The tears that wouldn't stop
I never saw the gun
Still clutched in your pretty hand
(It was only mentioned after,
at your funeral, to paint you as the bad person)
I only noticed the blood
That stained your pretty frock

But before they took you away
And cleaned off the walls and floor
I bent down and kissed the remains of your face
I smelled the sour stench of death,
But even in death
A faint wisp of a smile
Still graced your serene face

Copyright Â© bobotheclown ... [ 2005-10-27 02:54:11]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Smiling to Forget the Pain (User Rating: 1 )
by blowfish_jane on Thursday, 27th October 2005 @ 06:32:04 AM AEST
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Joel, this is so very sad. It got me teary eyed in the end.

Its simplicity was powerful enough for the person to fell your words. This was really really good.

Hope you'll be back soon.

Jane~

Re: Smiling to Forget the Pain (User Rating: 1 )
by vampyrekiss on Thursday, 27th October 2005 @ 06:28:54 PM AEST
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this was wow. really deep and so sad totaly good :left speechless:
vampyre

Re: Smiling to Forget the Pain (User Rating: 1 )
by ArsenicMyst on Thursday, 27th October 2005 @ 11:00:59 PM AEST
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*
too bad bobo

but you have failed miserably ...
not only in your pre-statement
but also with your horrific poem as well ...

i am going to read more of your poems
whilst youre gone ...

but that was your sardonic intention, huh?

aside from that ...
this poetic gore-romantique is really well written

(and more than just faintly reminiscent of
something i once put down)

¸·:·´Arsenic

Re: Smiling to Forget the Pain (User Rating: 1 )
by Kiela_Rox_Mi_Socks on Wednesday, 9th November 2005 @ 01:04:37 AM AEST
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Hi Joel,
This poem really made me feel like I was living in her life if this was about a girl. Its kind of telling how I feel right now smiling to 4get the pain. I will comment on ur poems soon i promise i'm sorry i havn't been. keep writing joel i still love ur poetry.

always
care

Re: Smiling to Forget the Pain (User Rating: 1 )
by Eternal_Dreamer on Friday, 11th November 2005 @ 06:27:57 PM AEST
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WoW Joel you had tears running down my face with your sad and heart breaking write.
A deep and heart wreching poem that has one in absolute tears. Thanks for sharing this with us.
*hugs*
sue

Re: Smiling to Forget the Pain (User Rating: 1 )
by Spazzo on Wednesday, 28th December 2005 @ 04:29:45 PM AEST
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This is a very powerful heart wrenching poem.

Take care.

Scott

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