Saturday, 2 October 2010

Standing on the Periphery

 

I stand on the periphery/

Thinking about my crass inability/

to see through my own stupidity/

not see through my immaturity/

Buffoonery/

Thinking about you brings pain to my biggest artery/

All the techniques in my artillery/

Could not bring you back to me/

See

Comradery/ is one thing, but pretending would be debauchery/

What happened to us? It’s a mystery/

I can’t work out whether periphery ends in a ‘Y’ or an ‘E’/

I contemplate this as my eyes take in/ the scenery/

My heart is breaking/ it requires surgery/

As my strongest muscle grows stationary/

I tip over the edge as my soul vacates me…/

3 comments:

  1. as always i like your writing/ poetry. it makes me feel all the emotions you are feeling even though i hate the thought of death, it really saddens me. i odn't quite understand it tohugh but it's good x

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  2. The periphery is a metaphor. It has two meanings. One is the edge of having a mental breakdown, and the other is the edge of a building before someone jumps. They think of every thing that has gone wrong in their lives up until that point...

    "my strongest muscle grows stationary" - Could refer to the heart stopping, or from the brain becoming resolute as the person either jumps over the edge (suicide), or the mind going into meltdown - breakdown

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  3. i really do need to work on my vocabulary... x

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