Laying down on the tracks

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    • nini2323
    • I once knew everything, and now I know nothing.

    Laying down on the tracks

    If I hadn't already hated myself I could have loved you,
    I was too far gone to let that kind of light in.
    Maybe if I had learn to except who I was
    I could have valued who you were.
    If I wasn't so busy trying to live the perfect life,
    I would have let you love my imperfections.
    If I hadn't demanded so much from you,
    You would have given me what I never thought I wanted.
    Maybe, maybe I could have loved you.
    If only I wasn't so busy hating myself.

    And now...

    I live here alone in this big house.
    Hating the walls, the floors, the windows.
    Especially the windows, they are liars.
    Promising more just outside their transparency.
    I know that there is nothing out there.
    At least nothing I want.
    This brightness is no longer the sun.
    But the light at the end of a quickly shortening tunnel...

    I'm pretty sure it's a train.

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    SuSpence commented on Laying down on the tracks

    05-01-2010

    Yeah, everything Altair said Haha. I loved it for real though nini! Especially love the end, and the introspection as alt cited. I'm glad he commented, but I saw it on friend activity and glad it directed me here. Maybe its just the title, but reminds me of the underlying theme and tone of Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' album. Great write! -Spence

    Altair commented on Laying down on the tracks

    05-01-2010

    Quite the deep introspection my dear...this poem is filled with wonderful metaphors, all of which I absorb in a reticent view of mine own self at one point. I can ramble for days about this poem, but I think it best I leave it short and sweet....loved it.

    Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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