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[sid] => 144435
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Trying To get Lost
[time] => 2008-08-08 02:21:53
[hometext] => I wrote this a while ago but stumbled across it yesterday and wondered what people thought about the structure.
[bodytext] => No passengers, nowhere to go But I can’t go home, not yet I find a road I’ve never taken And see where I can take it I can’t see where I’m going Cause the sun has long since set The music blares to block the thoughts Of dreams I know I can’t make real In the most clichéd way possible I have to get away I don’t know where I am With just two more turns of the wheel I get lost just to see if I can find my way home Honestly, I hope I can’t The cigarette burns the air The burning fills my throat I fight hard the tears In the cool night air As I hear the greatest band Play the greatest song they ever wrote The silly, trivial problems Of a silly emotional teen Somehow seem huge and painful Seem too overwhelming to face I think of things I said I wouldn’t Think of saying things that I don’t mean I wonder if everybody feels this way Nobody should feel this way Slowly I gain my bearing Begin to make my trip back Finding a road to follow helps Push aside the thoughts, if briefly Stupidly, I light another cigarette And finish another pack As I finally find familiar ground As if I ever did really escape I decide there’s nothing to decide There’re no answers to be found The only solace is to get this out And force these thoughts into shape Here now, is my pain on paper I wish it would have helped Another trip on another day If I’m lucky, I’ll never find my way back [comments] => 1 [counter] => 154 [topic] => 25 [informant] => ftmfan [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => MiscPoems )
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