Like the Rest

Fixes blame

Forgets responsibility

Drills the petty imperfections

Into dented faults

That can’t be mended

Always highlighted

Forget my successes

Remind me my failures

This is how the society works.

 

Lost and battered

Dreams and aspirations

Broken and scattered

No faith in my own beliefs

Standards become attitude

Not polite, but a sycophant

Unjustified outbursts of pain

Vain for being different

I can’t do this anymore

Can’t do nothing anymore

Can I?

Will I?

Push me east

Pull me west

Drive me insane like the rest

 

Did you wish me any good?

Same old rusted justifications

Forever set on replay

Blaring from every corner

And I sit

And I stare

My soul, my heart, my mind

Caged separately

Trying, seeking, dying

The corpse thrown out

Into the big bad world

Only to be tortured so

All over again

As they push it east

And pull it west

They drove me insane

Like the rest.

Author's Note

An emotional outpour.

Reviews

[November Gold]

A very exellent outpour, damn. I felt like you could have pulled these feelings and thoughts from MY head and heart at times. I seem to be swimming in this pool with you right now. You got me with this and touched me deeply. Brilliant work, and often this is the "gift" of anguish and pain, that it produces some of the most intense and raw emotional writing we ever do. Great stuff.

[Becky C Strukamp]

November Gold was spot on with her review. Excellent write.

[stars are far]

great poem

[ImagineItAll]

I was about to pull out a few select sentences that I loved, but as I kept reading I realized that everything you wrote really had an impact on how I was feeling. Very well done.

[Muse]

Emotional indeed! I think we all question the sincerity of others.

"No faith in my own beliefs"

This line concerned me.......this you need to get corrected real fast!

Great poem my friend.

[SoulCrusader (Yas)]

Love it!!! the emotions transfer out really well :)

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

being pulled in every direction and coming apart.......awesome