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Contradictions

September 17, 2009
By Angelica SILVER, Bronx, New York
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Angelica SILVER, Bronx, New York
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If you can't be yourself with yourself then who can you be?

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You smile because you're happy
I do it to hide that I'm sad
You laugh because something is funny
I do it to shake the feelings I have
You cry because you're sad
I do it because I'm mad
You yell when you're angry
I do it just because.
Your eyes remain sparkling and full of life
Mine continuously switch to hollow and cold
You go on as though I never existed
I feel the hole you left me,
gaping inside
You say that I bore you
But I say you entice me
Together I thought we were great
Separately I think we're walking contradictions.

© Mark S., Kannapolis, NC

The author's comments:
This poem was written from what I saw happen when a friend was hurt by a guy.
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Illy said...
on Sep. 30 2009 at 10:12 am
Love the peom and the deep feelings it expresses