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The Harpsichordist

November 18, 2010
By squalur996 GOLD, Henderson, Nevada
squalur996 GOLD, Henderson, Nevada
10 articles 3 photos 43 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character....would you slow down? Or speed up?
-- Chuck Palanick


The keys had gone black
from the fingers I
had laid upon them.
As my heart had gone so black
it was hardly to be a heart.
But in my mind I lay fresh,
as I told stories from my fingers
tapping softly on the keys.
But no one pays thought,
to a little harpsichordist.
Quite no one at all.
So it is here in my corner,
that I sit in great sorrow,
Letting emotions unfurl
To the greatest immensity.
My creations are unnoticed;
still I keep tapping out my black heart.
Yet on paper the notes are never
quite right.
Not quite right to describe,
Such the colorful deep richening
that is such in my mind.
It is then when I yell,
or to weep to the heavens.
For my work is all naught,
for my work is in vain.
This is why my heart has gone black.
For even I do not love myself.
For it is with black that I write and
of black I create.
So for black had grown weary and
oddly negate.


The author's comments:
There are always those times when you feel like this harpsichordist....

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on Dec. 18 2010 at 10:27 pm
squalur996 GOLD, Henderson, Nevada
10 articles 3 photos 43 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character....would you slow down? Or speed up?
-- Chuck Palanick

HAHAHA!!!! u crack me up am. just make me laff and laff and laff.

on Dec. 18 2010 at 10:19 pm
hoeflake BRONZE, Henderson, Nevada
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Favorite Quote:
"Don't say something you'll regret saying later."

OMGizzzleen the sizzleein nizzlen, that was the best of the bestest besten poem i have ever never ever never read by a 3rd grader. I give you an applaud to this oh so good yet oh so shabby piece of art. If I was any older, i would give you an enormous 5 year contract as an author, so CONGRADULATIONS this was...okay.