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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#995217 added October 6, 2020 at 9:53pm
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shooting at shadows
i fired my brain bullets
at her fleeting shadow
cast across the wall
that once towered
shaded me
where i dared stand in a bright field
that i might
absorb rays
i fired blanks in those days
at stationary targets
laughing
ridiculing
admonishing one
so foolish as to believe
i could play tag beneath the willows
chase them until dark
into the alleys
street
by strange houses
where neighbors rolled out
told me to go home
i stood in my front yard
and waited for their cheery faces
i went to their fields
the woods
into the dark places
my mind would roam
until i arrived home
and looked at the clock
tock
tock
tock
and knew i was out of sorts
i fired those brain bullets
silent
hard
into a brick wall
i'll never really know
if i hit my target
but i'll lay in the tall
yellow grass alone for awhile
and hope the sun
will warm me when i wake
tomorrow


10.5.20

you want to know if i feel guilty?
the one who would be at the bottom of a well shouting for help?
who with guile crawled out, got topside?
you want to know if i still feel worth?

if it's not a well, it's the bottom of a barrel
no thanks. i'll take the sun.


Reminds me of a scene from Community (NOT that show again!?)
Bitter much?
Response:
Bitter much, much??


Another line from Community (with parody of some movie, I'm sure):

We're losing him!

Just think darkest timeline

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