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Starcraftor — I Walk Alone
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Published: 2009-08-30 22:58:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 118; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 3
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I walk alone.I see someone up ahead.
I wave.
The don't see me.
I walk alone.
I hear someone cry out nearby.
I run to them.
They've tripped and fallen.
I pick them up and bandage the wound with a piece of my shirt.
I help them walk for a way.
They heal, and we part ways.
I walk alone.
I notice someone behind me.
I turn to them and smile, giving them some kind words to encourage them on.
I turn back around
I walk alone.
You would think I would get bored of it all.
I don't.
Sometimes I wish I had people around me.
Sometimes I wish to have someone beside me.
Who wouldn't?
But then I remember the ugly truth and move a little faster.
I walk alone.
Someone came up next to me.
Why did they do that?
They are not my equal.
They are better than me.
Why did she come up next to me?
She's smiling at me.
I can't smile back, I don't know why not.
She's asking me something.
I can't hear what she's saying, but I still understand.
She wants to see.
Oh, really?
Let her see, then.
It's always the same.
I walk alone.
I wouldn't be me if I didn't.
And that's all.
I walk alone.
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Comments: 10
I love the depth and the emotion to this poem. Loneliness is considered to be fairly depressing and cause you chose that as your topic it gives the poem a sad tone but the line 'I wouldn't be me if I didn't' shows a brighter side to the topic.
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Thanks! New viewpoints are always nice, but actually...it's not meant to be a happy thought. Remember, I referred to it as "the ugly truth". It's a depressing fact that is completely unshakeable.
To say it differently, here's the next stanza of Nightwish's "Astral Romance (Remake)":
The oceans are as lone as I
Somebody take away this gift of mine--
No charisma for the beast!
But still I love you forevermore.
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Your welcome, well I suppose you would know best cause you wrote it but I was trying to say that it can be seen as positive that the narrator see's their loneliness as something which has defined and shaped them to create the person who they are now.
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I know only what was going through my mind when writing, not what it meant to you. You're welcome--even encouraged--to think of it differently.
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lol I suppose it's nice to see how people view your work.
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It's also nice for someone to say that I'm wrong. It's how I think about things, actually: I pick a position and argue it to the best of my ability, then take the complete opposite stance and argue that. Some issues it confuses (in which case there's something else wrong with the situation), but more often it clears things up.
Put that in your juice box and suck on it.
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Hmm you mean seeing the argument from both point of views? It's always good to have an open mind like that.
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i love your poems because there hard to read (in a good way) as in they challenge the brain to actualy think about what it just read.
also its crazy how long you can write them. well done
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Oh, and I almost forgot to mention: Thanks for the fave.
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If you're gonna say it in verse, don't say it outright. Saying it outright is fine for poetical-sounding prose, but not poetry. Or so I believe.
Thank you very much.
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