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FAMILY
Future egos fight
Decades of suffering,
And smoldering phobias
Stick to their failures,
Like the bruised hopes
Which haunted our younger years.
Marred by desire,
Fed by hate,
Yet love progressed.
The weight of their plight
harbored enough tears
For us to decide.
We cast our unhappiness aside,
And push the sadness away,
Smothering each other in peace,
We can leave the bad times behind.
The scars we have,
pave our history
and carve pillars for us to rest upon,
So when thieves try to steal our dreams away
we can put our scars on display for all to see
and cry out loud;
'we survived, we will succeed!'
Decades of suffering,
And smoldering phobias
Stick to their failures,
Like the bruised hopes
Which haunted our younger years.
Marred by desire,
Fed by hate,
Yet love progressed.
The weight of their plight
harbored enough tears
For us to decide.
We cast our unhappiness aside,
And push the sadness away,
Smothering each other in peace,
We can leave the bad times behind.
The scars we have,
pave our history
and carve pillars for us to rest upon,
So when thieves try to steal our dreams away
we can put our scars on display for all to see
and cry out loud;
'we survived, we will succeed!'
Published 28th Aug 2009
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1st Sep 2009 8:51am
"Marred by desire,
Fed by hate,
Yet love progressed."
Amazing! Desire, Hate, Love. Your use of emotions in such pattern is fantastic. Desire and love engulf the word hate. They illuminate the fact that hate is present, but desire and love cancel out the feelings of hate, which is the whole setting of your poem. Very well done. Good use of verbs too :)
Fed by hate,
Yet love progressed."
Amazing! Desire, Hate, Love. Your use of emotions in such pattern is fantastic. Desire and love engulf the word hate. They illuminate the fact that hate is present, but desire and love cancel out the feelings of hate, which is the whole setting of your poem. Very well done. Good use of verbs too :)
25th Sep 2009 12:18pm
Thank you for your kind words, I love it when a short poem still manages to tell a story and it's so fulfilling for me when someone else can see that story.
