{"id":47908,"date":"2011-06-28T22:58:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T02:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/47908\/poem-dark-desires\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T22:58:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T02:58:37","slug":"poem-dark-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/47908\/poem-dark-desires\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Dark Desires"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was composed for the CPC Pick Apart Poetry challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The challenge is to remove 25 words from the featured poem, in this case by Voo, and make your own poem from them. \u00a0I 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! \u00a0Thus:<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Lying in the darkness<\/strong><\/font> of my own undoing,
\n Memories like shards of glass pierce me
\n Like a thousand knives\u2026\u2026\u2026
\n Cut me open, make me bleed tears,
\n <\/font>Taunt me, tease me, torment me<\/font>
\n With their awful, <\/font>beautiful,<\/font> unending voices
\n <\/font>Until I beg for<\/font> forgetfulness.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Such is the penance we all must pay
\n For living,
\n For building and destroying,
\n For<\/font> taking and<\/font> giving and <\/font>loving<\/font>
\n Another soul outside ourselves.<\/font><\/p>\n


<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It is the price tag we never notice
\n Until the garment is soiled,
\n Or the item is stolen,
\n Or the article is crushed
\n Beneath the feet of an angry mob:
\n Those damned emotions that do more damage
\n Than the guns of war.<\/p>\n

Unforgiveness is a cage
\n That holds prisoner the man that can\u2019t forgive
\n Hurt is the key that locks the door,
\n Offense is the carpenter that builds the walls,
\n And anger is the cold hard steel of the bars.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n


<\/p>\n

What would it take t<\/font>o free me<\/font> from this?
\n Captivity has been my terror and <\/font>my comfort<\/font>
\n How do I let go of the hand of sorrow,<\/font>
\n Drop these chains and walk into the sun?<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

Beyond the darkness, clarity shouts with a tiny voice:
\n Loneliness is not <\/font>my lover<\/font>, solitude is not <\/font>my friend<\/font>
\n No one <\/font>can set me free<\/font>, not even God
\n I have to let go, I have to let go\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

The key is in my hands now where it has always been
\n And I feel it turning, hear it creaking from long disuse
\n The cage door opens and I walk out free
\n And unbroken, into the light
\n As I forgive.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n


<\/p>\n

So here’s my poem:<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This was composed for the CPC Pick Apart Poetry challenge. \u00a0The challenge is to remove 25 words from the featured poem, in this case by Voo, and make your own poem from them. \u00a0I not only picked the words (actually only 24 different ones), but picked them as they came and them made my poem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}