Track Star

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Track Star

Screaming fear ripped through his lungs

and he dove for the only cover he knew,
the razor blade taking haven
at the bottom of his top right sock drawer in the bureau.
Pulling it across his ankle,
once, twice, three times.
What a morose little ritual,
and it drew plenty of blood.
Crimson stained the inside of
every single sock he still owned,
but the truth never did bleed through
his favorite running shoes. 
He woud bare his arms, 
and make first place on shotput,
on the mile run, on the 800 meter dash, 
he would hug his blonde little girlfriend,
he would go out and party
with the guys, on all the Friday nights.
His whitened smile, his gelled up hair,
and black socks, and running sneakers,
they all worked to hide this lonesome, lonely fear.

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Tyme commented on Track Star

04-12-2011

Whoa...so often, though we may not cut, we do know how to put on the mask right?

brokenhearted11

04/12/2011

Exactly. Just symbolism of the face beneath the face, the people-you and the you-you... This can be seen as anything we hide, and how unsuspecting everyone can go about it. Everyone's facing their own demons.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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