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Confused Desire

June 26, 2014
By lydia.w GOLD, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
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lydia.w GOLD, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
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I was always an unusual girl.<br /> My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean...<br /> And if I said I didn&#039;t plan for it to turn out this way I&#039;d be lying...<br /> Because I was born to be the other woman.<br /> Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.<br /> Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn&#039;t even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.

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Open roads
Summer nights
Insane ideas
Those are the things that I love
I desire freedom
To go anywhere I dream
I want to be free
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe I just need a grip on reality

But now my dreams are my reality
I don't even know what is real
I could run around
Like a complete idiot
Getting into things I shouldn't
Though that's just what keeps me going
But that just brings me back to
Am I crazy?
And let me tell you
I've found that
I'm pretty damn crazy after all

And I don't even care

© Denise A., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:
The song Ride by Lana Del Rey inspired me to write this. I love a lot of her ideas and thoughts.
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lydia.w GOLD said...
on Jul. 3 2014 at 11:31 am
lydia.w GOLD, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
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I was always an unusual girl.<br /> My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean...<br /> And if I said I didn&#039;t plan for it to turn out this way I&#039;d be lying...<br /> Because I was born to be the other woman.<br /> Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.<br /> Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn&#039;t even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.

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Thank you! And will do(:
Silverness SILVER said...
on Jul. 1 2014 at 11:08 pm
Silverness SILVER, Logan, Ohio
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I like this piece, good job. keep up the work/ Please view mine also :)