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The Web Poetry Corner - Emma - Louise Braiden - So educated - yet drowning in stupidity

So educated - yet drowning in stupidity

by

Emma - Louise Braiden

You lie, crumpled on the floor
Fallen sobbing disgrace
"Why does she cry - it was her decision?"
Pain does strange things to sanity
Love is even worse

This is your mess
And you know that too deeply
It scares you, shakes you to your depth
This is not a monster that can be outrun
This is you_

What if you just lost?
Perhaps this was something beautiful?
How can you close the door,
No matter how slowly?
Is this right?

And what of happiness
Is there a portion left for you?
The pain must have swallowed it all
Look at this emptiness
What are you going to put there?

Now that you’re deaf
Faint voices of contentment ring in the distance
Too far to grasp
Too close to ignore
Just smile your brown-eyed smile

To think - he loved you once
And what did you say_
"You will love him tomorrow"
Strangely true
Disturbing sleep once again

Now to wait for the unattainable
To sit in time
Watch the life fly about you
Elusive, but irrelevant
This is your hole girl_your doing.

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Why don't you look at RECOVERY
by: Gus Barrett
from: Parksville, BC, CA

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