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Array ( [sid] => 56231 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Learn, don't regret [time] => 2004-07-14 23:36:47 [hometext] => Growing up becomes more of a chore every day. [bodytext] => You write your twisted, ugly prose
Cut deep, watch as your blood flows
Just a phase your going through
Those teenage way hold onto you

Adult habits forge their marks
In empty houses and moonlit parks
Experimenting drink and drugs
A dark and dreary future tugs

You write those words
And sing your curse
There's nothing left that we can do
Except for hold on tight to you

I know that the disease is spreading
I feel infected, dirty, rotting
Putrid from the lies and anger
No reason to resist for longer

Now you've passed the curse to me
You no longer need to be
Lone, defensive in your ways
Your mind's alive, your heart's ablaze

The toil is through, we near the end
Is this the last I'll know of my friend
Who can't let go, nor share the truth
That threatens to break her love of youth

She makes her choice, moves on once more
Till Satan's rapping at her door
She's tempted fate and fate's been tempted
Risking what she knows is sacred

Little Miss. Her, too high to ascert
That what she is doing is going to hurt
All of those around her, especially him
The prospect of adulthood's far too grim
It grows much closer, our innocence is lost
What it is replaced by, isn't worth the cost
[comments] => 3 [counter] => 159 [topic] => 65 [informant] => gherkin [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 4 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => toughstuff )
Learn, don't regret

Contributed by gherkin on Wednesday, 14th July 2004 @ 11:36:47 PM in AEST
Topic: toughstuff



You write your twisted, ugly prose
Cut deep, watch as your blood flows
Just a phase your going through
Those teenage way hold onto you

Adult habits forge their marks
In empty houses and moonlit parks
Experimenting drink and drugs
A dark and dreary future tugs

You write those words
And sing your curse
There's nothing left that we can do
Except for hold on tight to you

I know that the disease is spreading
I feel infected, dirty, rotting
Putrid from the lies and anger
No reason to resist for longer

Now you've passed the curse to me
You no longer need to be
Lone, defensive in your ways
Your mind's alive, your heart's ablaze

The toil is through, we near the end
Is this the last I'll know of my friend
Who can't let go, nor share the truth
That threatens to break her love of youth

She makes her choice, moves on once more
Till Satan's rapping at her door
She's tempted fate and fate's been tempted
Risking what she knows is sacred

Little Miss. Her, too high to ascert
That what she is doing is going to hurt
All of those around her, especially him
The prospect of adulthood's far too grim
It grows much closer, our innocence is lost
What it is replaced by, isn't worth the cost




Copyright © gherkin ... [ 2004-07-14 23:36:47]
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Re: Learn, don't regret (User Rating: 1 )
by gherkin on Wednesday, 14th July 2004 @ 11:44:58 PM AEST
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I'm afraid I don't type very well at 5a.m. after being awake all night; another poem, another mistake. This time I've left an 's' off 'way' in the second line.
Again, apologies.


Re: Learn, don't regret (User Rating: 1 )
by Silent-No-More on Thursday, 15th July 2004 @ 08:44:16 PM AEST
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Oh please - you have nothing to apologize for! I wish I was half as well spoken as you when I was younger! AND surely I was not as insightful. I'm really amazed that you've 'seen' so much and pondered it so fully. This is a terrific, thoughtful poem - laced with a bit of sadness and loss. Really, really well done!

Impressed -
SNM


Re: Learn, don't regret (User Rating: 1 )
by morgana on Thursday, 6th January 2005 @ 05:04:28 PM AEST
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i love it!
i had and have suicidal friends...and i was suicidal!
lol
i really love this poem!
it's awsome plz e-mail me at loserpropertyqueen@yahoo.com
tata




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