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Poetry

Words connect all of us. Through laughter, memories, or ridiculous melancholy, we are what we say and what we write. TWS differs from WWS in form only. These are poems longer than 7 lines, allowing a little more freedom in exploring themes and more...

Off the Edge

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by PSwGear

by PSwGear

I used to think love was free

With no undercurrent but the now

So I took the hand of my personal pinup

And jumped without thought

'cause there's no survival instinct

with no expectation of tomorrow

Yes was the rule

All I wanted was her

And she wanted everyone

Until there was just one

The one who wasn't me

I crashed and burned

only then I remembered myself

I the long lost friend

Forgotten in ignorance's bliss

And blunt recriminations

Yet ignorance flees from hurt

The pounding echo in my heart's hollow

Told me my reality

untethered in a sea of cacophony

No boundaries to keep me from the edge

No harness to check the freefall

They were lost amongst my bones

Disregarded in the climb to heaven

A bittersweet reminder whence the fall

Bitter because of the broken

Sweet for I am not

3/31/13