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Lying to Myself

March 23, 2016
By nicki_writes PLATINUM, Marlton, New Jersey
nicki_writes PLATINUM, Marlton, New Jersey
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Favorite Quote:
Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck ~Anthony Doerr~


The excuse lies herein:

Artistry and Sentimentality

Make vicious company.

On emaciated nights as

Rainwater pounds halos onto

Faded rose carpets,

I listen to the muted taps,

The drafty breezes, the steady clangs,

The timbre and resonance

Of a home ageing

And think that if I were

More of an artist,

I would have written the lyrics

To a rainstorm's song,

And if I were

Less of a sentimentalist,

I would have left before

My ceiling collapsed to

The flooded ground.


The author's comments:

The day that I wrote this, I'd been feeling relatively introspective, and it'd been raining outside. When I sat down that night to put pen to paper, this is what came out.


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