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I Bet

January 5, 2015
By TayyBarlow PLATINUM, Madera, California
TayyBarlow PLATINUM, Madera, California
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Favorite Quote:
"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion."- Edgar Allan Poe



I bet you wouldn’t love me this way
If you knew about the voices inside my head
I’ll wager you wouldn’t gaze at me as I lay
If you knew I was already half dead.

I’ll bet your caress would turn to ash
If you realized my scars were from a sin.
I’ll wager your heart would tumble and crash.
If you knew how deep I was in.

I really do bet your eyes would hold disgust
If you knew the pain was showing.
I’ll  surely wager your kisses would die with distrust
If you realized the grief was flowing.

I’ll throw my dice and see
What you find in me.
I’ll lay my cards down.
I lay my cards down.
 


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What are your scars?


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on Jan. 6 2015 at 8:18 pm
ShadowBlossom ELITE, Boca Raton, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
Memento Mori- It means that nothing lasts forever, no one is immortal, sooner or later you will die and things will come to an end. It also helps you realize that while you are living you should do the most with your life, live life to the fullest.

Your poem is beautiful, and not in the conventional sense of beauty, happiness and fluff, but true beauty, something that speaks of truth and imperfection. It's true that most would leave and turn away if the scars we have on the inside were outside for the world to see... And most don't even realize how different each scar is, or how they came about, after all, not all scars are seen and not all wounds heal.