Sunday, September 18, 2011

I Walk Alone

I Walk Alone, I Walk Alone

I Walk Alone, through a town of old musty buildings,  cracked windows and boarded up doors.
I cant help but think of all the doors I have boarded up to myself, all the potential i wasted because i gave the keys to someone else.

I Walk Alone, I look around there is no one around me, they became black dots on the horizon long ago, getting a head start in the next town.  I look up and see a cloudy sky, waiting to burst with rain, even the sky has potential.  It could turn this desolate desert into something...  I look down and see sheet music,  scrubbed out dusty words, never sung.  Its too late now, they are unreadable.

I Walk Alone.  I look to the side, i see a reflection of a sullen face in a cracked window, I want to ask if they are lost and alone like me but they turn their eyes down, I notice a list.  Its a list of names,  people I havent thought about in ages, names I threw away because I thought I was fine by myself.  But now I
                                                                                                                                             Walk
                                                                                                                                                       Alone.
I Listen... SiLeNcE.  I never knew silence was quite so loud.  The desolate wind rustles my hair.  I am stepping over photographs now.  Pictures of places i have only dreamed of going, people i only dreamed of meeting, foods and smells and feelings I never experienced.  I reach down to try and salvage the scraps, but too late, the wind carries them away to others who will do something with them, showcase the photos on their walls of their pretty houses with their pretty lives.

And me i will just stay here in this lonely town because... I
      Walk
                               Alone.....

7 comments:

  1. Okay, this was seriously so good. Right from the first few lines you had me. Really. Just, really good.

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  2. i like how you kept trying to pull yourself out but it was too late to save yourself. cool idea, wicked post

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  3. ...That was amazing!

    I really loved your spacing. And the fact that you try to save yourself, but also put the blame on yourself. 'names I threw away because I thought I was fine by myself.' I love that line.

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  4. the line about silence being so loud was my favorite. because it is.

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  5. My favorite line is :"I cant help but think of all the doors I have boarded up to myself, all the potential i wasted because i gave the keys to someone else." I think that is such a cool but very real concept that you portrayed beautifully! :D

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  6. I don't want to say the same things as everyone else, but I loved all the same things about silence and boarding up my own doors...I have given the keys to myself to too many people..I love the depth in which you wrote.

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  7. This was Phenomenal! I liked "all the potential i wasted because i gave the keys to someone else." I like the was you incorporated indecision and the yearning to accomplish more.

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