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Touch the Fire

July 22, 2012
By LoveAndHateMakeLife GOLD, Tulsa, Oklahoma
LoveAndHateMakeLife GOLD, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Favorite Quote:
"If life ain't just a joke, then why am I laughing?!"


So what I touched the fire?

What if it hurt?

I don't care,

Just wanna feel the spark,

Even if it burns.

I needed some light,

To say I was alive.



I don't wanna quit playin'
games,

I Just want to stay me,

No matter what that means,

Happy to play with fire,

Just to feel something



My heart's growing numb,

Just wanted to let you know,

This is how I let go,

I'm just doing as told,

So why don't you smile?



So what I touched the fire?

What if it hurt?

I don't care,

Just wanna feel the spark,

Even if it burns.

I needed some light,

To say I was alive.



No more rules to follow,

No more meanings to decode,

Here I am letting out and letting it go,

I'm just doing as told



What if I like fire?

If I like to make mistakes?

If I like to get burned?

Can't you understand

That, that's what it takes?



It's the only way to learn,

The only way to be me,

The only way I can know I'm still breathing.



So what I touched the fire?

I knew it would burn me,

but I just had to try.


The author's comments:
I just recently realized that the only difference between a poem and a song is that songs have a chorus that repeats. This concept was extremly difficult for me to grasp, because I spent forever thinking of a chorus worth repeating. Cut me some slack, I Will Improve

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on Jul. 24 2012 at 10:13 pm
LoveAndHateMakeLife GOLD, Tulsa, Oklahoma
16 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If life ain't just a joke, then why am I laughing?!"

Thank you so much! And I just might do that... >:D

on Jul. 23 2012 at 4:21 pm
albinotiger GOLD, Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win"- Stephen King
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate”- Isaac Asimov

This poem is really artistic! its poetic and powerful! (maybe check out my poems sometime)