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Array ( [sid] => 16088 [catid] => 1 [aid] => Mick [title] => Rags (I Can't) [time] => 2003-04-16 07:35:00 [hometext] => * Written during a depressed time and when i was feeling worthless and that life was pointless * [bodytext] => Lying in a pool of blood
Dressed in my soiled, torn rags
Showing off my worthlessness
Holding my sins, to many to count
Wanting to be free from my rags
But I can't, I can't throw them off
No eloquence needed just those two words
The words of a failure, a coward

My rags flap in the breeze
Whipping around my skinny frame
Lugging around my sack,
My sack of unshed tears
Wearisome trudging along each
Hopeless, dreary, ***** mile
Sunburnt, skin raw and blistering
I can't continue this charade, this joke

Take out a razor
Search for that perfect vein
Watch as the blood spatters
Onto the cobbled streets
Watch as I do the best thing
I've done in years
I can't throw off these rags
And I can't continue on [comments] => 4 [counter] => 166 [topic] => 32 [informant] => bobotheclown [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => SadPoetry )

Rags (I Can't)

Contributed by bobotheclown on Wednesday, 16th April 2003 @ 07:35:00 AM in AEST
Topic: SadPoetry

Lying in a pool of blood
Dressed in my soiled, torn rags
Showing off my worthlessness
Holding my sins, to many to count
Wanting to be free from my rags
But I can't, I can't throw them off
No eloquence needed just those two words
The words of a failure, a coward

My rags flap in the breeze
Whipping around my skinny frame
Lugging around my sack,
My sack of unshed tears
Wearisome trudging along each
Hopeless, dreary, ***** mile
Sunburnt, skin raw and blistering
I can't continue this charade, this joke

Take out a razor
Search for that perfect vein
Watch as the blood spatters
Onto the cobbled streets
Watch as I do the best thing
I've done in years
I can't throw off these rags
And I can't continue on

Copyright © bobotheclown ... [ 2003-04-16 07:35:00]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Rags (I Can't) (User Rating: 1 )
by Jenni_Kalicharan on Wednesday, 16th April 2003 @ 07:49:47 AM AEST
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WOW!! Well written....but.... I do hope you've gotten over your depression!!!
Hugs
Miss Jenni

Re: Rags (I Can't) (User Rating: 1 )
by AngryPrincess on Wednesday, 16th April 2003 @ 09:35:42 AM AEST
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((JOEL)) all too many times i hoped one of my poems had as much as an impact on anyone as this one did to me...
"Wanting to be free from my rags
But I can't, I can't throw them off" I very much relate to those 2 lines... beautifully done...

Lindsey

Re: Rags (I Can't) (User Rating: 1 )
by shelby on Wednesday, 16th April 2003 @ 12:37:47 PM AEST
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wow intense write. I do hope that your feeling happier now. I think at times we all have rags we want to be rid of. Please continue on so I can read your poems.
Michelle

Re: Rags (I Can't) (User Rating: 1 )
by afraid_of_fear on Sunday, 27th April 2003 @ 12:47:14 PM AEST
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wow, how powerful. love the imagery of the sack of unshed tears.
thanx for your comment on my poem.
charlotte
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