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Suffocation

Spirals of adaptation
clinging to consistency

Seeking righteousness
Provoking pugnacity

Stretching towards tranquility
surrounded by animosity

These eyes bare witness
To atrocity...

Allowing vulnerability
Encouraging audacity

Suppressing negligence
Solidified tenacity

Implications of nostalgia
Embellishing insanity

These eyes bare witness
To atrocity...

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  • rhetorica gold member
    February 22, 2009

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    This could be interpreted in a few ways,the contradicting couplets
    suggests a mental battle between your beliefs and the ones that are forced upon you,it also has a drug trip feel about it..as usual with your poetry it makes me think such is the power of the language,it contains some great lines throughout,my favorites;

    "These eyes bear witness
    to atrocity" ....................would you consider repeating those lines right at the end?

    "implications of nostalgia
    Embellishing insanity"

    I can relate to those lines

    well done kitten

    rhet


    • skyviewexpress
      February 22, 2009
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      Thank you so much for the comment Terry! You are right, it's definitely a struggle with both myself, and the factors that effect such. An inner, enigmatic perplexity that eats at me.
      I repeated the lines just for you. Although I think I may have to do some adjusting on the 3rd and fourth line from the bottom. Thanks again.

      -Kitten

      PS: I think you know where the slight drug implication comes from