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[sid] => 141706
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Listen
[time] => 2008-04-19 14:31:33
[hometext] => The cutters, jabbers, pickers and chewers will understand. Your scars and wounds are terrible, but you are beautiful.
[bodytext] =>
the slash of fear,
the slice of rage
the tender bird within its cage
pecks its feathers until blood raw
to publicize its pain.
so many feelings locked within
squirming underneath the skin;
yearning to be barbed disdain
but frozen in their wrath.
I am mute to words
that should be said,
so I cut myself instead.
hateful, hurtful useless self
responsible like no-one else;
at least that’s what I tell myself
in order to survive.
feel your power, now see mine
the scars that speak the truth
jagged lines of innocence,
screaming out for recompense
yet forever misconstrued.
I have no means to
strike you dead,
so I cut myself instead.
I have no voice to
speak the pain
so I hurt, again
and again.
[comments] => 11
[counter] => 469
[topic] => 72
[informant] => spike
[notes] =>
[ihome] => 0
[alanguage] => english
[acomm] => 0
[haspoll] => 0
[pollID] => 0
[score] => 40
[ratings] => 8
[editpoem] => 1
[associated] =>
[topicname] => self-harmpoetry
)
Listen
Contributed by
spike
on
Saturday, 19th April 2008 @ 02:31:33 PM in AEST
Topic:
self-harmpoetry
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the slash of fear,
the slice of rage
the tender bird within its cage
pecks its feathers until blood raw
to publicize its pain.
so many feelings locked within
squirming underneath the skin;
yearning to be barbed disdain
but frozen in their wrath.
I am mute to words
that should be said,
so I cut myself instead.
hateful, hurtful useless self
responsible like no-one else;
at least that’s what I tell myself
in order to survive.
feel your power, now see mine
the scars that speak the truth
jagged lines of innocence,
screaming out for recompense
yet forever misconstrued.
I have no means to
strike you dead,
so I cut myself instead.
I have no voice to
speak the pain
so I hurt, again
and again.
Copyright ©
spike
... [
2008-04-19 14:31:33]
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Re: Listen
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by shelby on
Saturday, 19th April 2008 @ 02:40:08 PM AEST
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I sit here with jaw wide open and at a total loss of what to say. The emotion in this brought tears to my eyes. The way in which you wrote it carried it just as the emotion itself... ( hope that made sense) You are incredible!
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Re: Listen
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by surge_joebot on
Saturday, 19th April 2008 @ 07:36:06 PM AEST
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I agree with michelle, i sit here with the words knocked right out of me, wonderfully worded, painful to read yet I cant look away.
I know these feelings, they were my best friends once, they will always be a part of me |
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Re: Listen
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by Jenni_K on
Sunday, 20th April 2008 @ 01:30:08 AM AEST
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Emotionally charged!! This was so heart wrenching... well done..
Jenni |
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Re: Listen
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by purplestary on
Sunday, 20th April 2008 @ 04:11:42 AM AEST
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| this is an amazing write!!! all that comes to my mind..is...wow...and i just get this sense from this that you, like me, feel this urge..or something to break the silence and the pain and the hurt....maybe because we know of pain and hurt and being told to just hush and keep it under wraps...i mean..i've never been a cutter, or suicidal, yet i have felt so close to wanting to end it that way...wanting to find someway to let it out...and it's just that search for the voice i guess..and this poem to me is...the best stich effort to be the voice..to reach out...or something. |
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Re: Listen
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by PhantomVampyress on
Sunday, 20th April 2008 @ 07:03:43 AM AEST
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this is just amazing.. you have captured what those who hurt themselves feel inside when they cut.. this was just incredibly well done..
rock on,
vampyress Jenni |
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Re: Listen
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by Honey56 on
Sunday, 20th April 2008 @ 08:24:03 AM AEST
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| WOW!!!!~~This is so heartfelt~~Teared me up~~God Bless & A Excellent write~ |
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Re: Listen
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by Former_Member on
Sunday, 20th April 2008 @ 09:25:32 PM AEST
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My dear spike, you do know the workings of the human psyche oh so well.
And with such a delicate subject, you've proven you can write it out with
expertise and respect. I have had a close relationship with this sort of thing not
too long ago and it is a difficult row [to hoe], just standing on the outside not knowing
what to do. Or even understanding what is happening.
Excellent post, poet. Full of exemplary insight that provokes the heart into deep thought.
~Breezy
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Re: Listen
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by brew on
Wednesday, 23rd April 2008 @ 11:00:34 AM AEST
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WHoah......
So many condem these ppl, yet they are asking for help in differ ways that most can NOT understand.You nailed it........Thats bc you have a heart, T......alot of ppl dont. But hey I cant speak for others. Such a toching write, hope ppl take what you wrote, and try to make a difference. What inspiring, words.
Bravo
Hugs
Brew~ |
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Re: Listen
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by elle on
Tuesday, 24th June 2008 @ 12:41:40 AM AEST
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| Undeniably profound & painfully accurate. . . I must catch my breath. . . you embrace a feeling & have every other surrendering to the realism of the mode, the method & the process. . .surrogate of insidious tendency. . . our comprehension pales in comparison their experience but still you implore. . . oh, mighty pen. bravo. elle |
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Re: Listen
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by lilblkcat on
Sunday, 13th July 2008 @ 09:13:31 AM AEST
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| Couldn't have been written any better. You touched me with every line. Thank you so much for sharing it. |
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Re: Listen
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by Purple_Cherry on
Monday, 29th September 2008 @ 03:50:27 PM AEST
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| That definitely struck a chord with me. I am in awe. The words were so powerful… my jaw just dropped. You said it all, and so much better than the rest of us. |
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