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Sitting Alone

July 24, 2012
By so_joy SILVER, Navesink, New Jersey
so_joy SILVER, Navesink, New Jersey
8 articles 0 photos 722 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be the change you want to see."


Sitting alone
In a darkened room.
Knees hugged to my chest,
My breath coming in raw gasps of air.
A tear trickles down my cheek slowly,
Appreciating every second of its journey.

I close my eyes,
The pain is too much to bear.
You left me here.
This is where I saw you last.
Somehow,
I still smell,
The smells of our past.
I smell the lilies
You gave me that night.
The smell is overpowering,
Surrounding me in a deafening circle.
The aroma hurts my nose,
I could taste them in my mouth.
Those lilies you gave me were white-
Like the white of a cloud.
A meaningless, cloud.
Then, the lilies’ perfume was sweet and dainty,
Now the scent haunts me like a devil.


That night we sat here
In this very room.
The night we danced
By the open window.
I can almost feel the chilly breeze
Whispering in my ear, now.
On a night like tonight,
The full moon shines
The only light in the room.
It shines on the wall behind me.
That night was a full moon too.
One of your hands was at my waist,
The other at my shoulder.
The sound of a melody
Playing in the background.
It sounded like a lullaby,
With the rhythm of tip-toe, tip-toe.
I remember laughing at us
Dancing by the open window.
Then you kissed me.


I open my eyes.
Pain is shrieking in my heart,
Thundering in my skull.
Angry bullets dance their way in the pit of my stomach,
Making a dreadful knot appear.
You left me here.
Lilies blur my vision,
And I want to cry,
But I can't remember how.
The scent making me in dizzy,
The pain squeezing me into a tight, small ball.
The moonlight flashing through the open window
A reminder of what happened.
A dreadful, traumatizing reminder.


I want to get up,
Break the window glass,
Ruin and destroy the only evidence of you.
But I forget how.
Everything is slipping away...
Away…
Away…
Where are you?



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Aderes47 GOLD said...
on Aug. 28 2012 at 11:04 pm
Aderes47 GOLD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond

I really like this poem, it could have many different stories, but what is the story that you want to tell? What I like about your poetry is that it has great imagery and a great sense of emotion!

so_joy SILVER said...
on Aug. 24 2012 at 10:15 am
so_joy SILVER, Navesink, New Jersey
8 articles 0 photos 722 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be the change you want to see."

Thank you!!

on Aug. 21 2012 at 6:38 pm
Shahiro PLATINUM, Johnston, Iowa
20 articles 2 photos 262 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Soon we must all choose between what is right and what is easy." - Dumbledore (Goblet of Fire)

oh my gosh, i feel like this is crying on its own! it is powerfully emosional, way to write!!

so_joy SILVER said...
on Aug. 12 2012 at 5:58 pm
so_joy SILVER, Navesink, New Jersey
8 articles 0 photos 722 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be the change you want to see."

Thank you!

on Aug. 9 2012 at 1:58 pm
Queen25 PLATINUM, San Antonio, Texas
23 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Look up and smile because there is always tomorrow."

this is a wonderful poem! i love the way you describe the emotion in this poem.

so_joy SILVER said...
on Aug. 8 2012 at 7:07 pm
so_joy SILVER, Navesink, New Jersey
8 articles 0 photos 722 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be the change you want to see."

Thank you!

bluhs said...
on Aug. 8 2012 at 9:17 am
bluhs, E, Alabama
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Beautiful and so full of emotion.

so_joy SILVER said...
on Aug. 2 2012 at 2:28 pm
so_joy SILVER, Navesink, New Jersey
8 articles 0 photos 722 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be the change you want to see."

Thank you!

on Aug. 2 2012 at 10:50 am
Zero_Black BRONZE, Las Vegas, Nevada
1 article 0 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
If you love something, then let it go,
If it comes back, it's yours forever,
If it leaves you, then it was never meant to be.

. . . amazing. wow, it was REALLY incredible! the imagery and the vocabulary were awesome, the emotion of the narrator and the personification of the tears, the wind, the pain . . . i'm almost speechless, that was great! keep writing awesome things like this!

so_joy SILVER said...
on Aug. 1 2012 at 1:48 pm
so_joy SILVER, Navesink, New Jersey
8 articles 0 photos 722 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be the change you want to see."

Thank you!

on Aug. 1 2012 at 10:09 am
writer3499 GOLD, New Bedford, Massachusetts
11 articles 0 photos 196 comments

Favorite Quote:
"it's impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all-in which case you fail by default."
-J.K.Rowling

This really great! Super intense and awesome!

so_joy SILVER said...
on Jul. 30 2012 at 7:59 am
so_joy SILVER, Navesink, New Jersey
8 articles 0 photos 722 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be the change you want to see."

Thank you!

on Jul. 29 2012 at 9:42 pm
jeepster72 BRONZE, Perris, California
2 articles 0 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Beauty and the Geek" -Ashton Kuthcher

gave me chills(: keep writing