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Self-Destruct

April 5, 2014
By Hanban12 ELITE, Lake Worth, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.&quot;<br /> Henry David Thoreau<br /> <br /> &quot;I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once.&quot;<br /> John Green

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Before,
My self-destruction
Never hurt
Anyone
But myself.

But now,
The bomb has resurrected into something
Dangerous;
It
Tick
Tick
Ticks
Relentlessly
By our hearts.
I tell myself
To hold it in, keep it hidden,
So that afterward,
When the ticking stops,
No one gets
Hurt
By
The shrapnel.

© Michael D., Hawthorne, NY

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HudaZav SILVER said...
on Apr. 25 2014 at 8:26 pm
HudaZav SILVER, Toronto, Other
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&quot;Nothing is impossible; the word itself says &#039;I&#039;m possible&#039;!&quot; -Audrey Hepburn

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Woah! Short but effective. I love the way you wrote the lines in short sentences, really nice work. =)
Nightowlwriter BRONZE said...
on Apr. 11 2014 at 9:25 am
Nightowlwriter BRONZE, Garden City, Georgia
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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

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Great poem, the kind you through against the wall then pick back up again.