Be Yourself, Become Cultured and Then Escape.

Inspired by Badlands and The Outsiders. The image is of Martin Sheen as Kit in Badlands, imitating a scarecrow. Like a ghost stranded in the wrong time, it's impossible to feel like you belong.

Walking into shadows of the past,

A ghost stranded in a dead land.

Stuck on the wrong side of a mirror,

Where empty minds mean everything

And nothing means anything any more.

We're free. We become cultured. Then we die.

I'm James Dean, I'm dead. Loved but forgotten.

Nothing means nothing to me.

Between worlds.

 Where does love come from and where does it go?

I love you but I'm gonna disappear like the sun behind clouds.

I've ached for you but I've nothing left but what's missed.

Just like God I crucify and sacrifice you.

Sleep. Wake. Cry. Unbelong. Sleep.

Be yourself. Become cultured and cluttered.

Half asleep. Awake in the wrong time and dead.

Between life's.

The heart breaks but the spirit lasts.

Time digs down deep to the root,

Memory digs deeper down into the heart.

Digging myself out only to feel weighed down.

Trapped, cultured and dead.

I'm a poet, I'm a ghost. I love but remember too much.

Everything is ugly, nothing is beautiful any more.

Feeling is not losing control.

What fails exists and what works doesn't exist.

Never unexpect the unexpected, love corrupts the soul.

Clinging to a knife like belief. There's always one day

But sometimes all there is, is all there is.

Author's Note

Think Kit in Badlands or any of the kids in The Outsiders.

Reviews

[deeps]

Walking into shadows of the past,
A ghost stranded in a dead land.
Stuck on the wrong side of a mirror,
Where empty minds mean everything
And nothing means anything any more.

I so loved these lines here, this is simply a amazing write here.
I like this especially the part about the wrong side of the mirror.
Can't look in, can't see a reflection. MMM! Such a pondering
way to look. I enjoyed this write.

[Closedown]

I like the use of the word "unbelong." I've been looking for a word that describes what I do.

[Kes]

Niiiiiiiice!
'Nothing is beautiful anymore'
'Love corrupts the soul'
I love these bits. I'd say lines, but they're not the whole line! If I wasn't wrapped up so warm I'd have had goosebumbs!
I really can't see fault in anything here.
Fantastic, in it's dark creepy way! I love it.

[Jonathan De Elvira]

Whoa!!! Better than i have expected...I had tried once of writing something such as this....
Cool....

I liked the lack of feelings from the main character....
It's like he was done with everything during the exile...