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Esprit

January 10, 2013
By skylarpaige BRONZE, Las Vegas, Nevada
skylarpaige BRONZE, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Strange is
A beautiful truth
A truth of flaw after deceit
As I am a wondrous sleuth

Strange is
As simple as a lie
“Of course I am strange!”
Oh, how so very wry

Strange is
A wood with strings
Nobody questions
These very beings

Strange is
A beat with no heart
A never release
Headed back to the start

But strange is not
What you say it to be
More a way of life
The power of esprit


The author's comments:
A lot of my poems aren't very straight-forward. It takes a bit of reading in between the lines. The purpose of this particular poem was lain in the idea that the "strange" things in life happen to be all around us and you can't label something as being "strange". The line: "Of course I am strange!" was a sort of mockery among those who claim they are strange but have not even faced a mirror to decipher themselves or the defined term "strange".
I named this piece "Esprit" and not "Strange" because not only does it sound cooler, but because strange is a way of life and a way of being vivacious and alive.

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