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Aug 20
poem, rant 5 comments
LadyMidnight

permanent ink

I try not to have any regrets
but yet I find myself
sometimes in debt
to the man in the corner
with his scraping beard
and jagged silhouette

he's the one I would have feared
inside his web of crawling
threads
a single cigarette
draping from his lips of lead

a stream of smoke that slowly ebbs
inside my mind
offset from the kind of things
that normally would have appeared
a speeding train threatening to upset
the notion
that we are intertwined

a minuet to which we are blind
an orchestral chant
a rant
for those who bled
instead of breathing
for those who fought instead
of dreaming

because once you wait your turn in line
until your empty fate's assigned
time will burn in fiery red
a soulless threat
we may not have volunteered
for this
but why are we still inclined 
to find
what words will stay 
when we are dead
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Posted: 08.20.20
About the Author: LadyMidnight
"There is nothing to writing. All you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemmingway
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  1. Whitney
    Aug 20, 2020

    Wow. this poem is powerful. I read it several times and it really made me think. I absolutely love it! As for a title ideas... Regret The Decisions We Never Made, or The Words We Leave Behind. I’m kinda bad at titles so no offense if you don’t like them. Great job!!

    Whitney

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  1. LadyMidnight
    Aug 21, 2020

    Ooo good ideas! And thank you :)

    "There is nothing to writing. All you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemmingway

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  1. Treblemaker
    Aug 21, 2020

    Similar to Whiteny I read this a few times and I'm still pondering some of your amazing lines. For a tittle my mind went to 'Silhouette' 'Time will burn' or 'permanent ink' also I like 'the words we leave behind' as Whitney said. Hope this helps :)

    I write because the music of language spoke to me in books and I wanted to make a beautiful noise to answer back ~ Lee Williams.

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  1. LadyMidnight
    Aug 21, 2020

    love them! thank you :)

    "There is nothing to writing. All you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemmingway

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  1. floradiehlnoble
    Nov 27, 2020

    Wow that is beautiful!

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