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Jamais vu
Dizzy as I woke, born into a strange place.
The surroundings unique,arriving without a trace.
Still gaining composure while I observed a culture rush passed.
The ground was soft, my breath was fast.
Couldn't join the numbers for I could not comprehend.
weeping like a willow I never would understand.
Creatures stared while moving steady toward a goal.
My crackling voice screamed out "wake you'r dying souls"
The Reaction was cruel, now bound me to segregation.
My existence was surreal, surviving in an aliens nation.
Out numbered and odd minded, Just a man and his thoughts.
Ignoring reality's injected plans, I just fell off the plot.
The surroundings unique,arriving without a trace.
Still gaining composure while I observed a culture rush passed.
The ground was soft, my breath was fast.
Couldn't join the numbers for I could not comprehend.
weeping like a willow I never would understand.
Creatures stared while moving steady toward a goal.
My crackling voice screamed out "wake you'r dying souls"
The Reaction was cruel, now bound me to segregation.
My existence was surreal, surviving in an aliens nation.
Out numbered and odd minded, Just a man and his thoughts.
Ignoring reality's injected plans, I just fell off the plot.
Published 13th Apr 2012
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13th Apr 2012 3:48pm
Sting once said that in crafting songs about others he ended up actually writing about himself. I think that statement may be true here. Seems like we see a bit about how you see the world. (I am totally aware that this could be way-off speculation here!)
Good write and welcome to DU!
Good write and welcome to DU!
20th Apr 2012 2:22pm
Yeah I can kinda see where your coming from. The poem was mainly written for a frequent feeling that I get... some call it jamais vu.
Its the opposite of deja vu. Instead of feeling extra familiar, thing seem totally unfamiliar. In this case there is too little connection between long-term memory and perceptions from the present. When a person is in this state, nothing they experience seems to have anything to do with the past. They might be talking to a person they know well and suddenly they person seems totally unfamiliar. Their sense of knowing the person, and knowing how to relate to them simply vanishes. A room in which they spend a lot of time suddenly becomes totally novel; everything seems new. Details they will have seen a thousand times suddenly become engaging."
--from "Deja Vu in Spiritual and Scientific Views
Its the opposite of deja vu. Instead of feeling extra familiar, thing seem totally unfamiliar. In this case there is too little connection between long-term memory and perceptions from the present. When a person is in this state, nothing they experience seems to have anything to do with the past. They might be talking to a person they know well and suddenly they person seems totally unfamiliar. Their sense of knowing the person, and knowing how to relate to them simply vanishes. A room in which they spend a lot of time suddenly becomes totally novel; everything seems new. Details they will have seen a thousand times suddenly become engaging."
--from "Deja Vu in Spiritual and Scientific Views
20th Apr 2012 3:02pm
Thanks; my hunch about the definition of French words was correct. (Took the language in college but that was a century ago)
I guess the even more unsettling thing is when it expands to other people or even other things!
I guess the even more unsettling thing is when it expands to other people or even other things!
24th Apr 2014 1:16am
