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Array ( [sid] => 122889 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Cheap Wine and Cigarettes [time] => 2006-07-07 22:44:48 [hometext] => [bodytext] => Through shallow hooded eyes admiration flows
as morning breaks my head and heart grow stronger
the past fades away with a flighty glory never before achieved.
As my insistence strengthens with the sun,
I am me again.

Your hooks and knives no longer in my back,
my head not seized between your hands
I have evolved, learnt more, feared less.
I have woken anew and thrown off the shadows of the past
I am free...
But still...

Trepidation below the belt, a low blow to the brain.
You shock me with the way things go.
A memory missing from the grey matter,
Obscured from the teeming sphere
Shooting into darkness.
Trying not to feel the way i did,
trying to leave behind the broken peace for a better place.

I had the proof, yet it is gone
and my sense of belonging followed it into the backlit sky
and still, throughout the struggle,
the infinite battle for power and wellbeing,
I find it extraordinary to compromise my beliefs for a night of cheap wine and cigarettes...
Yet after an hour of the same,
your hooks will sink in and my fortitude will die away
until Im back where I began
Searching for a better trust

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Cheap Wine and Cigarettes

Contributed by UrbanFlower on Friday, 7th July 2006 @ 10:44:48 PM in AEST
Topic: anguished



Through shallow hooded eyes admiration flows
as morning breaks my head and heart grow stronger
the past fades away with a flighty glory never before achieved.
As my insistence strengthens with the sun,
I am me again.

Your hooks and knives no longer in my back,
my head not seized between your hands
I have evolved, learnt more, feared less.
I have woken anew and thrown off the shadows of the past
I am free...
But still...

Trepidation below the belt, a low blow to the brain.
You shock me with the way things go.
A memory missing from the grey matter,
Obscured from the teeming sphere
Shooting into darkness.
Trying not to feel the way i did,
trying to leave behind the broken peace for a better place.

I had the proof, yet it is gone
and my sense of belonging followed it into the backlit sky
and still, throughout the struggle,
the infinite battle for power and wellbeing,
I find it extraordinary to compromise my beliefs for a night of cheap wine and cigarettes...
Yet after an hour of the same,
your hooks will sink in and my fortitude will die away
until Im back where I began
Searching for a better trust





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Re: Cheap Wine and Cigarettes (User Rating: 1 )
by Keilantra on Friday, 7th July 2006 @ 11:47:14 PM AEST
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The second stanza is beautiful. Keep it up.
xXx

~kei


Re: Cheap Wine and Cigarettes (User Rating: 1 )
by Ruby2sdy on Saturday, 8th July 2006 @ 07:06:54 AM AEST
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I like this poem very much, lovely work, very nice,

2sdyx


Re: Cheap Wine and Cigarettes (User Rating: 1 )
by blueheart on Sunday, 9th July 2006 @ 03:50:01 AM AEST
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I liked this one a lot. Brilliant play of words.


Re: Cheap Wine and Cigarettes (User Rating: 1 )
by GraveTypeBed on Wednesday, 20th February 2008 @ 12:13:41 AM AEST
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Brilliant...




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