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DIRTY MESS

April 16, 2015
By becauseincubus SILVER, Stone Mountain, Georgia
becauseincubus SILVER, Stone Mountain, Georgia
9 articles 1 photo 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Pain is only temporary.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;In three words I can sum up everything I&#039;ve learned about life: it goes on.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. &quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;Don&#039;t go through life. Grow through life.&quot;


You’re a wet rag that I keep wringing and wringout out, causing my hands to ache and become sore. 

But still, you're dripping dirty water on the floor.

And I can't clean it up.

 

You planted a bad seed in my heart.

And I can try and try to dig you up

but you rooted yourself so deep,

so intertwined into my veins.

 

You’ve become a tainted, poisonous flower ready to sprout.

Can't you see?

You're rotting me from the inside out.



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on Apr. 21 2015 at 12:28 am
becauseincubus SILVER, Stone Mountain, Georgia
9 articles 1 photo 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Pain is only temporary.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;In three words I can sum up everything I&#039;ve learned about life: it goes on.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. &quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;Don&#039;t go through life. Grow through life.&quot;

Thank you!

on Apr. 19 2015 at 4:53 pm
crazysockmonkeys SILVER, Boynton Beach, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;I think of writing as something more organic than words, something closer to being than action.&quot; -Tennessee Williams

You hooked me in from the beginning of this poem. Nice work!