Without Love It's Just Not Worth It
By Midnight Phoenix
(I found this old work in a drawer. It's a bit sketchy.)
Those shackles
you've grown so fond of
No longer hold you back
The burning inside you
spreads deeply
So primitive
so thirsty
Don't hold your breath
those days are gone
Wait just one more moment
Pulse so quick
body so eager
Thoughts unclear
just say goodnight
The ever-present storming
and waiting
Not even qwelled
by rain or wind
Fighting yourself
just hold back
Leash the desire
until it burns away
Each firey ink drop
draws out your life
One more line
wrapping back the shackles
Tighter this time
until the flame dies
So now I may rest
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Copyright 2003 little nemo
Published on Tuesday, December 2, 2003.
Filed under:
"Poetry"
Comments on "Without Love It's Just Not Worth It"
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On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, Blinded_Tiger
(518) wrote:
wow like the way this ended. Kinda wicked in being true to itself. Yet this poem also spoke to me. Great work. Tiger
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On Sunday, December 7, 2003, Raze Drake
(85) wrote:
*Don't hold your breath,those days are gone* So very true my friend, so very true. . . . . . .
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On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, maddin foxxxy
(358) wrote:
Brandon...oh wow...I always expect to be impressed by your works as I start reading them....but when I do end them...is way and beyond that. Just unexplicably intriguing and well done.
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On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, WinterGrave
(258) wrote:
i agree with bast,vary nice read.~~~Grave
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On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, KittyStryker
(710) wrote:
i really like this. i don't find it sketchy in a bad sense... more like a sketch of the way you see things... light pen and ink, slightly rugged, but crisp and sharp... well done.