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This blog contains mostly my poetry and a few thoughts from time to time. The thoughts will be entered when and wherever I feel necessary to keep things in proper order. Thoughts and things not belonging to me will be denoted with asterisks. Poems will be archived by the date which they were written, not by that which they were posted. I tend to update things a month or few after being written so as to keep current issues from wandering unattended around the web.

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[somberlife was first created July 11, 2004]


“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson


Saturday, October 18, 2008

Want to Let Go

If I hit rock bottom and let go of it all
Will that make life simpler?

Will I disappoint you all on my way down?

Surely you can rise up without me.

Plan B

The fact that I don't have a plan B,
And plan A is so costly...
The consequences of a failed A
are not something to contemplate.
It must not happen.
It is not an option.
There is no room for a plan B.

One at a Time

Don't tell me it'll be alright
That's not the case
And you know that for yourself
It's one day at a time
Sometimes a step backward
When the world is demanding
Two steps today

Not as Strong as I Pretend to be

Sometimes I get scared
I'm not as strong as I pretend to be


It hurts so much just to admit that to you

I suppose you already know
But to admit that I have to keep relearning
I'm not as strong as I pretend to be

Pretend

I know I can talk to you
Just sometimes I forget that


Afraid of what you'll say

Afraid of what you'll think


I really am not as strong

as I pretend to be


I am afraid of you

I am afraid of me


What if I give you
too much of myself
?

What Then

And sometimes I get scared,
of how little I really know you

of how little you really know [about] me


What if we don't last forever

(Not that I am planning for us to)
(But I'm not planning otherwise)


Sometimes I get scared

I really don't have it [all] under control

I am terrified of life


What if I give you too much

What happens if it doesn't work

How would I go on without you


I do get so scared
(Afraid of the world

Afraid of life)