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Ruby
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Ruby asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 9 years ago

"On the wall" Please read/ C/C my poem?

On our kitchen wall,

she lies to us - 12 minutes fast,

and it took weeks to realise -

numb and useless as we are in the morning,

drunk as we are at night.

I no longer trust her, she

ruled herself, chose to confuse

and I think she used us

I'm sure she's using us

for her own private game.

Things take time,

Good things come to those who wait,

Time waits for no-one

Time heals all wounds -

This time I'm onto her.

Because I know it's her fault,

while she's in the future in our kitchen,

she has frozen time in my mind;

taken the minutes from me and

locked you up there

- taken the batteries out.

She is everywhere at once, so

how can I beat her

when she bleats time?

she's locking the past and keeping it,

eating at my present

sleeping with my future.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Interesting poem. A slight eerie feeling can be created, especially from not describing plainly who 'she" may be, her omnipresence and your attitude to offer her powerful or rather mysterious qualities - coexisting with time and life. I consider it a strangely written, actually on purpose, and absorbing poem. You must be quite a clever individual, so I expect to read more from you. Bravo, well done.

    G

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