taking the air

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    taking the air

     can I shake you hard enough
    to rock your little world
    to make you take a second look
    see my red-rage unfurled

    no matter how you twist my mind
    no matter how you scheme
    the day will never come
    that I will be your self-esteem

    you whip me with your anger
    and lash me with your fear
    your sullen ice-cold silences
    make things crystal clear

    the only reason I draw breathe
    it would seem you do believe
    is to stroke your swollen ego
    while your "wisdom" I receive

    but I don't like this idea
    that I can't think for myself
    or that if I disagree with you
    you'll put me on a shelf

    I'm tired of the games you play
    your grasping, greedy need
    every ugly word you've said
    a firmly planted seed

    you've watered it with disregard
    it's light the bitter truth
    your fertilized insecurities
    indicted me with no proof

    now you say you hate the smell
    of my disenchanted flower
    I'm not "what" you thought I was
    when you locked me in this tower

    finally you take a breath
    my chance to finally speak
    smiling, look you in the eyes
    "I never was that weak"

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    Hampton commented on taking the air

    07-19-2009

    This poem resounds as if presented in an ampitheatre with thousand in attendance with your voice directed only to the individual that has drawn your ire. Your ability to express is a gift.
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    wheelsal commented on taking the air

    07-08-2009

    Rewards to you for a study of egotism and the flowers it draws into the nectar. This flows and rhymes with a lovely enchantment. The ending disenchants because they always smile. You hit it hard.
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    laydbak1 commented on taking the air

    07-08-2009

    Some people can only see their own endlessly mindless, insidiously contemptible character as the only one that matters, when in fact, it only makes them more insignificant with every word... Good write....
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    DeepEclipse commented on taking the air

    06-18-2009

    Gourgeous. My plight with the world. 30 minutes with me and they already conclude what I am. It is done more out of fear, though. Because as you know, to understand one like us would take more time then they care to give. Hell, it might just be beyond their abilities. Excellent piece. It gives me hope for the day....
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    marinewife06 commented on taking the air

    06-05-2009

    i have been here and the way the words flow from you so true it was like a movie of my life this is beautiful
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