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Artificial Happiness
Contributed by
Exodus-On-Life
on
Sunday, 23rd November 2003 @ 02:22:57 PM in AEST
Topic:
DarkPoetry
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Record my thoughts and trace them in the dirt
Kick a rock and it rolls forever
Feeling or belonging to nothing
Get out of the cold with a straight face
Close my jacket for the first time without asking why
Lying awake and dreaming at the same time
Faithfully holding onto something
Empty words we never spoke
My eyes are fighting sleep
Red and indisposed
Sorry for everything that happened
And happy for it all
Waiting around forever
Hang up the call
Prescriptions and bottles
Tired of the same old things
Buttons and lights on the phone
So sick of the nonexistent rings
Empty words I spoke to myself
Caring for nothing or the pain I dealt
Wishing for always
And asking for never
Taking from no one
Not being together
Prescriptions that take hold of me
Swallow artificial happiness
Lying awake tormented, laughing
Falling for the trickery my pain provides
Wishing like hell you didn't despise me
Blurry words on plastic caps
Two capsules in the morning
Prescriptions that offer nothingness
Artificial motivation with no warning
Controlling my smiles that always fade
Pop that pill again
Drop that blade
Take off my glasses
Dry my cheeks with my arms
Take two capsules in the morning
You can lie awake
Devoted to faithful thoughts and tears
Where would I be?
Moments in time without the curves of a frown
Losing so much time as I lay me back down
Lying awake and dreaming at the same time
Devoted to something
Prescription bottles ripping and gnashing
Losing my humanity
Take two capsules in the morning
Losing an ounce of sanity
Eyes fighting sleep
Allied with my thoughts
Sleep losing a battle
A battle never fought
Twist off the cap, pull out the two
Capsules that have tiny little writing
And are the brightest color blue
Remind me of artificial happiness
And of these dying eyes
Fake the way I hold myself
And I'll fake my motivation
Losing my sense of hope sometimes
Never losing my dedication
Prescription bottles everywhere
Littering the floor
I tell you that I'm satisfied
And they still feed me more
Take two capsules in the morning
Don't you dare forget
If you lose your artificial happiness
Life full of regret
I have my desparate desires that I tell on the phone
My intent thrown so out of control
Emotions full of artificial motivation
And bottles full of pills
Lying awake tomorrow night
So faithfully
Empty my words and my bottles
Close my jacket tight
Losing this artificial battle
Eyes against sleep will fight
Prescriptions control, throwing me around
Losing my sense of anything
You
And my feet float so far off the ground
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Exodus-On-Life
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Re: Artificial Happiness
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by Jellybellyprincess on
Sunday, 23rd November 2003 @ 03:42:41 PM AEST
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This entire poem is just one swirling mist of misery.... I'm not usually into that type of thing (generally I'm quite a happy person) but this worked.... I can't explain it too well, but I can read this one and not dwell on the fact that it's dark poetry..... it's just exposing the pain of sorrow....
I think it's not what I'd normally read, but I like it anyways =)
Great work. If you can convince me dark poetry is worth reading, you've done a great thing ; )
God bless,
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Re: Artificial Happiness
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by harshreality on
Sunday, 23rd November 2003 @ 04:51:20 PM AEST
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| great write. I can't think of any words to really describe this. Its very good though and I hope things work out for you. |
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Re: Artificial Happiness
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by emystar on
Sunday, 23rd November 2003 @ 05:13:10 PM AEST
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Very good writing!
I take Zooloft and I surely welcome its artifitial happiness. Actually it's not artifital it jus helps my brain slow enuff to process better.
I say bing on the pills as my life was a living hell without them!
good work-n-take the pills. Heck with writing this good ya need to keep on taking um.
peace, joy, luv, bring on the pills,
emy
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Re: Artificial Happiness
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by Cobalt on
Monday, 24th November 2003 @ 05:13:53 PM AEST
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| Very long but pretty darn good none the less. I think it flowed in it's own way heh. Hard to explain but I did think it was good. |
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