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Feb 07
poem, nonfiction 2 comments challenge: WHO-Contest
LadyMidnight

Essence

I wrote a song on the back
of my hand
but managed to forget all the words.
I read you a story
that no one enjoyed
except for the paper birds.

I exist in silence
like a quiet flood
threatening to overflow.
Uniqueness is futile
humans fall as one
just take a glance at the snow.

I stand on scaffolding
built from my dreams
which waver in the sky.
I think I'm a believer 
but somedays
I just want to sit down and cry.

In my blood,
runs poetry and somewhere, hope
because eventually, I get a voice.
Be thankful
because by being alive
someone gave you a choice.




 
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Posted: 02.07.20
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"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. NiñaEstrella
    Mar 03, 2020

    This is brilliant and I’m really impressed, especially at all the rhymes.

    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde

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  1. LadyMidnight
    Mar 03, 2020

    Thanks so much!

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

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