POEM: Dark Desires
This was composed for the CPC Pick Apart Poetry challenge. The challenge is to remove 25 words from the featured poem, in this case by Voo, and make your own poem from them. I not only picked the words (actually only 24 different ones), but picked them as they came and them made my poem with the words in that order! Thus:
Lying in the darkness of my own undoing,
Memories like shards of glass pierce me
Like a thousand knives………
Cut me open, make me bleed tears,
Taunt me, tease me, torment me
With their awful, beautiful, unending voices
Until I beg for forgetfulness.
Such is the penance we all must pay
For living,
For building and destroying,
For taking and giving and loving
Another soul outside ourselves.
It is the price tag we never notice
Until the garment is soiled,
Or the item is stolen,
Or the article is crushed
Beneath the feet of an angry mob:
Those damned emotions that do more damage
Than the guns of war.
Unforgiveness is a cage
That holds prisoner the man that can’t forgive
Hurt is the key that locks the door,
Offense is the carpenter that builds the walls,
And anger is the cold hard steel of the bars.
What would it take to free me from this?
Captivity has been my terror and my comfort
How do I let go of the hand of sorrow,
Drop these chains and walk into the sun?
Beyond the darkness, clarity shouts with a tiny voice:
Loneliness is not my lover, solitude is not my friend
No one can set me free, not even God
I have to let go, I have to let go………..
The key is in my hands now where it has always been
And I feel it turning, hear it creaking from long disuse
The cage door opens and I walk out free
And unbroken, into the light
As I forgive.
So here’s my poem:
WOW… Great write Bob!!!
~Jean~
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You are just too cool!!!!! I never dreamed all that was lurking inside my poem!!! haha, Voo
well done Bob!
Wow! Excellent Pic a part (((Bob))) and you made this look so much simpler. It always takes me forever to do these. I’ll have to try your method next time! :love: