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Approaching Death

July 11, 2014
By kayleyypaige BRONZE, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
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kayleyypaige BRONZE, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
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I wanted to write down exactly how I felt, but somehow the paper stayed empty. And I couldn't describe it any better.

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Darkness swallows me up. I forget to breathe. When will this game end? Will I ever live to see daylight again or my family? I'm lost in time. Seconds turn to hours. It feels like it's been a lifetime. How long have I been in here, in this pit of pure night? Why has the Sun fails to shine and lead me through this hard period of time? I never did a crime. I made sure to be nice to my captors. And yet here I am, approaching death. The nearer I get the more I regret ever living. Pain is not ignorable.

© Tatyana Z., Norwood, MA

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This piece has one or two literal meanings, but so many figurative meanings. I came up with this on the verge of sleep, and didn't even realize what I had really wrote until the next day when I slowly read over it a few times. Literally, this poem means nothing to me. But figuratively, it fits my situation perfectly. So make of it what you will.
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