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Inadequate MAG

April 11, 2014
By AGDDavy SILVER, Tamarac, Florida
AGDDavy SILVER, Tamarac, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;If you believe that your dream already came true, it is easier to achieve it and harder not to make it happen.&quot;<br /> -A.G.D. (Me)


How do I start?
Difficulty surpasses lips
Nothing to say
While others have plenty
My keyboard, paper and pencil
Have more of a mouth than my own
There is no sky in my mind;
My limits are marked by emotions

How do I start?
Lost for words even in the midst of the known
My life is marked by taciturn body language
It is not easy to show efficacy
In a battle on foreign territory

How do I start?
In the atmosphere of prodigies
With lips that know not the meaning of “párate”
With quicksand as my timer
And only a tattered rope to pull myself out

I am not the same as my socially built
counterparts
Yet I suppose I should have known that ….

Though I wish it wasn't true



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Mckay ELITE said...
on Jan. 14 2015 at 10:38 pm
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.&quot;<br /> &mdash;Apple&rsquo;s &ldquo;Think Different&rdquo; commercial, 1997<br /> &ldquo;Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn&#039;t understood.&rdquo; <br /> ― Weihui Zhou

An anthem of introverted and socially awkward, if not the anthem. Your wording is sublime. I thought of the word "taciturn" as I began, and sure enough there it was blinking at me once I reached that line. The emotion is delicate as well. It's not overwhelming, but anxious in a self-conscious mode. I love the repetition of the line "How do I start?": it added substance to entire poem. This is just me: I feel somewhat torn about the last line. I'm deliberating whether or not it is essential. But again, that's me. Congrats on the publication of this poem. Well deserved.