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Madness Within

September 8, 2019
By PoetFromAnotherPlanet GOLD, San Jose, California
PoetFromAnotherPlanet GOLD, San Jose, California
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Favorite Quote:
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." -T.S. Eliot


Do you ever just feel like you’re dying,

Like a million suns from unknown galaxies

Are crashing into you,

Stealing the space and air from your lungs,

Colliding with your heart,

Until what’s left of your soul detaches from your body?

 

Do you ever just feel like even starlight

Cannot keep the hope awake in your chest

And you yearn for the precipice that is the night sky

To swallow your whole?

 

Do you ever just think to yourself

That only monsters live inside you

And you are doomed to forever repeat

Your mistakes on time lapse

With despair in your bones?

 

Do you ever feel like there is no soul alive

Who is want for what you have to offer,

That the madness within is your only gift

But no one dares to receive?

 

I do.



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