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Array ( [sid] => 51240 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Dark Thoughts [time] => 2004-06-09 23:58:25 [hometext] => [bodytext] => I draw a dashéd line down my arm
a broken trail following a pale blue vein
and two little looping lines at its end-
cut here, gallows humor
the dark ink is a stark contrast,
seeming almost to float above my
lily white and petal fragile skin
now I cannot miss

I pick up this sharp, shiny thing
testing the point-a red teardrop my reward
I stare and stare until my sight blurs
or is it that my falling tears smudge the ink,
and my heart's crimson blood wells up from
the directions now followed
a vertical slit, snake eye, almost there
and it burns, oh, it burns,
it burns away the pain, and
my self slowly seeps away

and then I awake, my face pressed into
a cold and soggy pillow
my bedclothes disturbed, uneasy
my arm stings, a ghostly pain
and I think,
what a sad, sad, strange dream.
[comments] => 3 [counter] => 165 [topic] => 13 [informant] => HellsLibrarian [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => DarkPoetry )

Dark Thoughts

Contributed by HellsLibrarian on Wednesday, 9th June 2004 @ 11:58:25 PM in AEST
Topic: DarkPoetry

I draw a dashéd line down my arm
a broken trail following a pale blue vein
and two little looping lines at its end-
cut here, gallows humor
the dark ink is a stark contrast,
seeming almost to float above my
lily white and petal fragile skin
now I cannot miss

I pick up this sharp, shiny thing
testing the point-a red teardrop my reward
I stare and stare until my sight blurs
or is it that my falling tears smudge the ink,
and my heart's crimson blood wells up from
the directions now followed
a vertical slit, snake eye, almost there
and it burns, oh, it burns,
it burns away the pain, and
my self slowly seeps away

and then I awake, my face pressed into
a cold and soggy pillow
my bedclothes disturbed, uneasy
my arm stings, a ghostly pain
and I think,
what a sad, sad, strange dream.

Copyright Â© HellsLibrarian ... [ 2004-06-09 23:58:25]
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Re: Dark Thoughts (User Rating: 1 )
by thumper on Saturday, 19th June 2004 @ 06:38:53 AM AEST
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Dark thoughts, indeed! This is a good write......ummmm.......I just don't support cutting.
Thumps ; 0 )

Re: Dark Thoughts (User Rating: 1 )
by Pyrofungus on Tuesday, 6th September 2005 @ 08:10:04 PM AEST
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wow....if only it had been dream....if it had just been thoughts and not reality..., but i do not regret....i've learned....i've understood....

your words in this poem are absolutely amazing....no joke....the discriptions....wow......

summer

Re: Dark Thoughts (User Rating: 1 )
by flamingblade on Sunday, 9th September 2007 @ 10:03:15 AM AEST
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oh wow
definitely had me on the edge of my seat.
i think this is absolutely amazing
awesome work
Flamingblade

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