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[title] => Further Left to Go
[time] => 2014-03-07 13:53:21
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[bodytext] => I lay my head upon clouds and drift away To a place I dare not travel while I am awake Within me lies a great forest of the deep A place I can only get to when I sleep I go there to find what I can not during the day A place to call home Happiness in everyway I go there to escape all I can not control Everyone of them that chip away at my soul I used to lay here Looking up at the stars on my wall But now they lay me down As I watch my tears fall I close my eyes as they hover above me As my mom stumbles to her room saying she loves me She closes the door slowly and leaves me behind As they have their way with me Time after time after time I struggle to get free But their hands keep me down My room echoes from the terrible sound Of a child losing hope of ever being found Their pleasure is my pain As I stare out the window Crying with the rain I am but one child With many names We all travel to the same place Because only our dreams can keep us safe Deep within us lies a great unrest Searching for that which is difficult to digest One day… We’ll be able to lay in our beds and look up at the stars again That much we know But till then We have further left to go [comments] => 1 [counter] => 127 [topic] => 48 [informant] => thewordzwithin [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )
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