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The Nightmarish Reverie

November 9, 2010
By WickedRae67 BRONZE, Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Laugh your Heart out<br /> Dance in the Rain<br /> Cherish the Moment<br /> Ignore the Pain<br /> Live, Laugh, Love<br /> forgive &amp; Forget<br /> life is to short to be<br /> living with regrets.

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I can’t feel, I can’t verbalize.
I can’t bawl, I can’t synthesize.
Trapped perpetually,
In this nightmarish reverie.
With this endeavor,
I can’t cease.

The higher I get,
The harder I plummet.
I can’t feel the drive,
I can’t feel the draw.
I can’t sing to myself,
With the unyielding lull
Of the ocean on every plane.
I can’t get off this journey.
As it rises, and falls.
I gain and lose it all.

I run and run,
I trip and fall.
The night closes in,
The weeping begins.
Yet still not a sound to be made,
Riven on an everglade.

© Kelly K., Fort Collins, CO

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