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Array ( [sid] => 8215 [catid] => 1 [aid] => Mick [title] => Darby's Ghost [time] => 2002-12-08 01:40:00 [hometext] => [bodytext] => on dark roads
they wait
and i don't go

not even in my mind

& in the bushes
above dark brown earth
raindrops fall

...trickling
down deep green leaves

& the rough hide
of a fatherly tree
by daytime

is a skein
of nightmare
in the dark

& under the black sky
& the silver stars
the wind roars

& sweeps
through the branches
each leaf crackling alive

and on the shiny streets
they wait in corners
deep and dark
planning my entrapment
and exquisite torture

i feel them in my heart
eating me from inside
dark voices of hate
savage teeth and eyes
heavy tall & brutal

not human somehow

they block my path
and make me small
and scared

they snarl and sneer
and laugh at me
they threaten me
they bar my way

and i am so close to home
so near the safe warm love
of my mom's smile

trapped
in confused humiliation

vulnerable/lost/helpless
alone/terrified/sick at heart

my lifespirit & fire disappear
forever...

replaced with fear
so deep
and wide
to cover me

a whole life long

[comments] => 2 [counter] => 190 [topic] => 43 [informant] => Steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )

Darby's Ghost

Contributed by Steeleyes on Sunday, 8th December 2002 @ 01:40:00 AM in AEST
Topic: oops

on dark roads
they wait
and i don't go

not even in my mind

& in the bushes
above dark brown earth
raindrops fall

...trickling
down deep green leaves

& the rough hide
of a fatherly tree
by daytime

is a skein
of nightmare
in the dark

& under the black sky
& the silver stars
the wind roars

& sweeps
through the branches
each leaf crackling alive

and on the shiny streets
they wait in corners
deep and dark
planning my entrapment
and exquisite torture

i feel them in my heart
eating me from inside
dark voices of hate
savage teeth and eyes
heavy tall & brutal

not human somehow

they block my path
and make me small
and scared

they snarl and sneer
and laugh at me
they threaten me
they bar my way

and i am so close to home
so near the safe warm love
of my mom's smile

trapped
in confused humiliation

vulnerable/lost/helpless
alone/terrified/sick at heart

my lifespirit & fire disappear
forever...

replaced with fear
so deep
and wide
to cover me

a whole life long

Copyright © Steeleyes ... [ 2002-12-08 01:40:00]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Darby's Ghost (User Rating: 1 )
by bobotheclown on Sunday, 8th December 2002 @ 03:46:40 AM AEST
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Very well written I've been there before. It was hard to understand at first but as it went on it got better and better. I hope u dont actually feel like this because I've been there not to fun...

-Bobo (Joel)

Re: Darby's Ghost (User Rating: 1 )
by Steeleyes on Sunday, 8th December 2002 @ 01:00:58 PM AEST
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Thanks Joel, it was a long long time ago now but the shadow those times cast still remains. Bullying is an awful experience and can scar you for life.

I have come through and can find happiness here and there but a nameless fear always seems to lurk just outside my awareness and darkens my days...

Thanks for your support here.. :D

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