Pretending Game

Pretending Game

A Poem by Pax
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Emotions secluded me to a closed

Making me a shielded sea clam

Nothing but a front of masked individual

It’s like the pretending game is on

Lies and truth are paddled up like scrambled egg

 

It’s an ocean of sea clams out there

The key to every door is hidden

             deep within the soulful depths of love

it has many layers, would you find it?

       Or it will just end up in the far shallowness

              Of all these scrambled lies and truth

                                In this pretending game

                                              We called life……..

© 2013 Pax


Author's Note

Pax
sometimes i think I'm such a selfish person...gotta get it out my system...

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The clam's shell protects it...when it closes, is that selfish? What is "selfish" anyway?
Is the adult that puts the oxygen mask on first so they can function to protect the baby in their arms selfish? Sometimes, we must protect ourselves to gather strength to go on, to ground, to think and work through things. What others perceive as "selfish" changes with who the other person is.

"The key to every door is hidden
deep within the soulful depths of love
it has many layers..." - beautiful! Perhaps, the key to what is "selfish" and what is in the end thoughtful is found in love. If we never think of self, there would be nothing to offer anyone else.

These are some of the thoughts your poem stirred in me.

I just thought of an interesting quote I read long ago...I think the book was "How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World"...it went something like this...

"When people label you selfish, it is because you are not doing what they selfishly want you to do." I have always found it thought provoking. :)

Posted 12 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Pax

12 Years Ago

my Friend Clair... I'm always amuse on how in-depth you understand my poems... so many thanks... and.. read more
Shimmerbliss/CAF

12 Years Ago

I always enjoy the thoughts your work stirs up in me, my friend! :)



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yes, life is really a pretending game, maybe by our total honesty ,we also could be somehow "pretending'"? or hidden in ourselves like these so dark sea clams, maybe they hold all inside, all what we need, but we have to look and see, and find the right key...
No♥r~


Posted 11 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pax

11 Years Ago

oh your right... a very key of love were looking for...I'm so glad you enjoyed my poem my friend..
Much emotion and wisdom in your thoughtful words. I too feel... as your words so aptly describe... so much of the time, because in my opinion love doesn’t “just happen” like so many people believe. That's 'infatuation' it thus renders itself shallow, with 'scrambled lies, mixed in with bits & pieces of truth. I say love is a verb that requires action and real commitment. Too often we think of love simply as a feeling that one day came and another day floatied away. It's our deepest possible connection to another being, therefore, as human beings, we have to make a conscious selfless say in the matter.
Love is a choice. Love is one sacrifice voluntarily offered after another, for years on end. But those who are full of pride, anger & self-serving narcissism...well... those people simply cannot be expected to have any idea what 'real' love truly is. I find in today's society most people are 'love midgets' ...lacking in depth, style, substance & compatibility due to their ego's.
Thus...I remain single for I am jaded by the lack therof in today's society. Mighty fine poem

Posted 11 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pax

11 Years Ago

“I say love is a verb that requires action and real commitment”
I find love and infatuatio.. read more
The clam's shell protects it...when it closes, is that selfish? What is "selfish" anyway?
Is the adult that puts the oxygen mask on first so they can function to protect the baby in their arms selfish? Sometimes, we must protect ourselves to gather strength to go on, to ground, to think and work through things. What others perceive as "selfish" changes with who the other person is.

"The key to every door is hidden
deep within the soulful depths of love
it has many layers..." - beautiful! Perhaps, the key to what is "selfish" and what is in the end thoughtful is found in love. If we never think of self, there would be nothing to offer anyone else.

These are some of the thoughts your poem stirred in me.

I just thought of an interesting quote I read long ago...I think the book was "How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World"...it went something like this...

"When people label you selfish, it is because you are not doing what they selfishly want you to do." I have always found it thought provoking. :)

Posted 12 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Pax

12 Years Ago

my Friend Clair... I'm always amuse on how in-depth you understand my poems... so many thanks... and.. read more
Shimmerbliss/CAF

12 Years Ago

I always enjoy the thoughts your work stirs up in me, my friend! :)
A true representation of life...good job :-)

Posted 12 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pax

12 Years Ago

thank you for your feedback.
me too Pax, I don't wanna be selfish, just can't seem to help myself. It is after all my world is it not? If we create our own existences, which I am not sure I subscribe to that theory, but if we do then doesn't a little selfishness seem logical to create the utopia one would desire to live in? I dunno, love this write though, your writes always make me think about philosophical things, that's what I love about your writes :)

Posted 12 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pax

12 Years Ago

oh, I've just replied that to someone when we talk about a unselfish society...
Pax

12 Years Ago

here is my message:
do you think that unselfish society, were selfishness is erase....is a wel.. read more
Corset

12 Years Ago

I think that is very profound, and I happen to agree :)
just great... love the way you convey the message

Posted 12 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pax

12 Years Ago

thank you so much for the review and visit...it's very much appreciated.
I like your poem. It's metaphorical, unique and unlike what I have read before. It gives the reader imagery that really appeals to the senses. It makes me imagine my self, knee deep in water. Sometimes burying my face in the water and prying my eyes open with sand between my fingers, looking for something desperately.

What I imagined probably was brought about by your lines:
The key to every door is hidden
deep within the soulful depths of love
it has many layers, would you find it?

:)

I, too, am selfish. INCREDIBLY SELFISH. So you're good as long as you're not as selfish as I am

Posted 12 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pax

12 Years Ago

Maraming Salamat kabayan, the key can be anything... a metaphorical essense that you have to find..... read more
Katherine Enma Pineapple

12 Years Ago

You're welcome :) and correct you are. It's the degree of selfishness we have to worry about
A valid perspective, artistically expressed.
Fine work, Pax!

Posted 12 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pax

12 Years Ago

thank you mr. Frank...your visit means so much...
I think I'm selfish too and sometimes it bothers me and I don't know why...
Anyway the comparison is good, naikumpara ng maayos ang inyong tula...
yung title po na Pretending Game ay nagmamatch lang sa piece... Thumbs up!

Posted 12 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pax

12 Years Ago

ganun talaga kabayan, sometimes we need to be selfish its an unavoidable human nature...a deep under.. read more
Rhianne Ney

11 Years Ago

You're welcome Kuya Pax^-^
Words can open or close doors, guess we have to find out which is right, which key to use and when. To me, your poem's cathartic, self healing perhaps, shows courage to write about self within the 'slings and arrows' of living life. Maybe we all have to be a little selfish now and again, else we end up as crumbs and you know how hungry the birds can be!

Posted 12 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pax

12 Years Ago

i felt speechless of the truth you conveyed ms. Ems... I felt thankful to you... blessed with your k.. read more

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