Moving Backwards

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    Moving Backwards

    Why am I moving backwards?
    It's like I fear success.
    From job to job, check to check,
    my hair is gray because I am stressed.

    Why am I moving backwards?
    Afraid to turn around.
    In the mirror looking back at me,
    the reflection of a smiling clown.

    Fool! You are, I tell myself.
    But yet it hasn't changed.
    Moved out of state to fix my life.
    But it all was rearranged.

    The vision I have for the future,
    unfortunately is a blur.
    Stop the daydreaming of a big old house,
    and make that dream occur.

    Why am I moving backwards?
    Girl, finish what you start.
    Your education means nothing,
    if you keep it in your heart.

    Take a breath and hold it,
    until you have achieved.
    Fuck the moving backwards.
    It's about time that I succeed.

    4/11/05 - 7 something am or pm (the paper is old and torn).

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    keena718 commented on Moving Backwards

    07-12-2009

    i like, i like. I feel the same way sometimes. Need to learn how to just go after what you want and not hold back. good luck girl.

    SincerleePoetic commented on Moving Backwards

    04-09-2009

    ok. i can feel that.

    tripplett commented on Moving Backwards

    03-15-2009

    I'm thinking you wrote the bio after this poem. Very powerful, but honest self-examination requires a certain spiritual brutality. And once started, it is never done (until...you know).

    In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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