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The sun pours in its light.
I greet it with a nonchalant smile,
Prepare myself to fight.

Each day is a battle within myself,
To attain the characteristics I desire.
Your words haunt my every thought,
The manipulations I more or less admire.

For I used to be the free spirit,
Wild, running, never to be caught.
A trap I had not seen coming,
One that I could not have fought.

So each day I will continue,
To try to pry the bars out of place.
With every heartbeat I will go on,
Losing my notorious grace.

And if a smile can free a person,
How can it also burn them yet?
How much longer will I be in hiding?
It’s time to place your bets. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 162 [topic] => 48 [informant] => beautiful_letdowns [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )

Place Your Bets

Contributed by beautiful_letdowns on Thursday, 24th July 2008 @ 03:22:01 PM in AEST
Topic: EmotionalPoetry

I wake each morning,
The sun pours in its light.
I greet it with a nonchalant smile,
Prepare myself to fight.

Each day is a battle within myself,
To attain the characteristics I desire.
Your words haunt my every thought,
The manipulations I more or less admire.

For I used to be the free spirit,
Wild, running, never to be caught.
A trap I had not seen coming,
One that I could not have fought.

So each day I will continue,
To try to pry the bars out of place.
With every heartbeat I will go on,
Losing my notorious grace.

And if a smile can free a person,
How can it also burn them yet?
How much longer will I be in hiding?
It’s time to place your bets.

Copyright Â© beautiful_letdowns ... [ 2008-07-24 15:22:01]
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Re: Place Your Bets (User Rating: 1 )
by ZiggyB on Thursday, 24th July 2008 @ 09:55:40 PM AEST
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Trapped within yourself...only you can let it go

Good write

Re: Place Your Bets (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Friday, 25th July 2008 @ 12:43:08 PM AEST
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This is very nicely written. If I may read into it something that you may not have meant, I would say to be sure the characteristics you are working on within yourself are because you want them there, not someone else. Clearly you are a fighter, you'll figure out what's best for you ;o).

Re: Place Your Bets (User Rating: 1 )
by wheels on Saturday, 26th July 2008 @ 09:27:11 AM AEST
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I agree with jesseca - good poem

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the lonely vagabond

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