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[aid] => mick
[title] => Rocky Mountain Cry
[time] => 2009-10-30 19:40:29
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[bodytext] => In the splendor of the mountains, blue sky, white snow Answers hidden that I’ve yet to know Arrived near death, to run away Emotional breakdown, a crushing day As I took cover in the Rockies , a snowstorm arrived And trapped me in seclusion, to help me survive I walked, I wrote, I fell apart Trying to heal, the wounds in my heart And the scars in my mind, that were killing me As I watched the snow fall silently The snow soon melted, the path soon free From the cold and the ice that was hiding me Drove through the desert, drove just to think No pills, no smoking, no liquor to drink Just me and the rage, and the pain and the hurt And I picked up the pieces that were shattered in dirt Unplugged and disconnected, from family and friends Screamed and I cried, and I reached my wits ends Drove an icy path, through the mountains so high And confronted myself, with the want to die… A small turn of the wheel, and I’d lay down the law And not a soul would have found me, until the spring thaw I stood at a canyon, of black looking down Reflecting on my life, which had come crashing to the ground I held on to the guilt, of the mistakes that I made And the lie that I covered, with the price that I paid So I murdered the lie, by throwing it to the wind Off the cliff of the canyon, and begged forgiveness for my sin From that moment on, I began to heal And the war inside was over, and I began once again to feel The night before I left, a bigger snowstorm fell As if to wipe the world, of the private hell That I went through alone in those mountains of stone Reclaimed my soul, which was again mine to own… As I left the mountains, the snow hid the terrain And the path that I traveled, and the strength that I gained… [comments] => 1 [counter] => 282 [topic] => 48 [informant] => darkscorpio [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 3 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )
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