Guilt

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    Guilt
    Troubles have lasted
    throughout my life,
    and sometimes I
    can't sleep at night.

    Though maybe that's
    the source for me...
    to feel the bad
    in order to see!

    I still but wonder
    what might have been,
    if I had listened
    to Mother then?

    Though...what "is", is now
    and I can't show
    these feelings that
    I ought to know.

    I'm lost inside
    a world of fears...
    but when I look
    they disappear!

    When eyes are closed,
    they stir about...
    what is this world
    my mind seeks out?

    Why does this world
    torment me so?
    The guilt that refuses
    to let me go!

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    alaskawriter96 commented on Guilt

    09-25-2009

    thats a really expressive poem(i love expressive poems) i love how you ask the retorical questions, it adds a lear desperation to the poem
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    kaddeesh commented on Guilt

    09-17-2009

    I feel as thought you've turned yourself inside out and exposed yourself for us to see here. Thanks for your honesty, Litilraven. I appreciate that.
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    litilraven

    09/18/2009

    thanks. I don't think I exposed anything more than what others may also feel at some point in their life. We all have things we wish could have been done differently, and we all have guilt over many things in our past... The original title was "nightmares", but the poem was indeed about guilt, so I changed it.

    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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