REALITY OR IMAGINATION?

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    This poem was also written on deployment.

    REALITY OR IMAGINATION?

    I AM SO LOST. I DON’T KNOW WHICH WAY TO GO OR WHERE TO TURN . I DON’T KNOW WHO TO CALL ON ANYMORE. I HAVE LOST SO MUCH SLEEP THAT I FEEL LIKE I’M A ZOMBIE WALKING AROUND IN NEVER LAND. MY DREAMS HAVE BECOME SO VIVID IT IS AS IF I AM NOT DREAMING AT ALL. AM I DREAMING OR IS THIS REALITY? I DON’T KNOW. AM I REALLY SITTING HERE TYPING THIS OR IS IT A DREAM. NIGHT AFTER NIGHT I TOSS AND TURN. I DRIFT IN AND OUT OF SLEEP. I AM HAUNTED BY MY PAST AND WHAT I HAD THOUGHT I’D FORGOTTEN. HOW COULD IT BE THAT I AM ASLEEP YET I HEAR PEOPLE AROUND ME. HOW COULD IT BE THAT I SEE THE DAY WHEN MY EYES ARE NOT OPEN. COULD IT BE THAT THIS IS A DREAM. HOW COULD I HAVE STRAYED SO FAR FROM THAT WHICH MATTERS TO ME MOST? AM I NOT LIVING? FOR I FEEL AS IF I AM ALMOST DEAD. AM I NOT DEAD FOR I CANNOT FEEL AT ALL. IN THESE THINGS WHICH ARE REAL I AM FRIGHTENED AND IN THESE THINGS IN WHICH IT IS JUST A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION I AM AT PEACE AND FIND JOY AWAY FROM REALITY. FOR ONE CAN ONLY BARE SO MUCH BEFORE THEY LOSE ALL SIGHT OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE REALITY AND THEREFORE CAN NO LONGER TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. REALITY OR IMAGINATION?

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    WordSlinger commented on REALITY OR IMAGINATION?

    06-26-2009

    Keep the pen going, in both, reality, and imagination. Welcome to Op, and you will find your happiness.

    babygirl1

    07/06/2009

    Ty

    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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