Tourniquet

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Tourniquet

i have urges to cry, when things are going right.
miles away, the threat that'll end; it is taunting me.
it's gonna end my happy high.
i forget to ask permission in the rush of things.

it seems to be raining without the clouds.
the trees and the air are still,
but wind keeps knocking me down,
can't figure this out.

widen my tired eyes to keep the tears asleep.
there are my promises i'll always keep.
identity seemingly stole by a stranger.
why do you constantly put me in danger?

complicated simplicity,
i can't just spell this out.
i always save life stories,
but you never could get your Ps and Qs right.

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DeepEclipse commented on Tourniquet

08-02-2010

Hmmm... the 1st stanza I have no clue. Perhaps it is something close....if it could end a happy high. The 2nd stanza....seems to reflect...an emptiness? Perhaps not something that was done to you, but something that wasn't done enough? The third stanza...stay awake...hmmm....perhaps a deadened perspective leaves too much open...too much vunerable. Identity stolen....maybe fallen to peer pressure?...living as someone elses shadow..or puppet. And the last stanza...seems to show that something or someone doesn't understand something about you that is right in front of their eyes? Intriging poem woven in undertones. I like how you wrote these paradox's - (i have urges to cry, when things are going right.) - (widen my tired eyes to keep the tears asleep.) - (complicated simplicity), forces the mind to almost look at things backwards. What they think they know, they have no clue. Enjoyed the read.

AlysonAlive

08/02/2010

Thanks. :] Pretty much anything you could list would be right. I'm feeling caged in and something needs to give...

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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