The Back of Your Mind

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The Back of Your Mind

The pain...
is it enough?
Willpower must be gained.
You want to.
Oh, you want to.
But a meek fragile voice,
from the very tip of your mind.
It just...
wont let you.
You have the gun.
The bullets. The blade.
The whiskey and the grass.
The empty hour.
And the bottles of pills.
But that little voice...
She wont give in.
She holds her own, she doesn't back down.
She's fighting for your life,
only...
You aren't her ally this time..
Listen to the voice, she knows.
The voice?
Yeah... Thats me. 

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LadyLuck commented on The Back of Your Mind

10-21-2010

Sitting on the brink. I've been there, That little voice quiet but just loud enough to be heard past the destruction. good write

brokenhearted11

10/25/2010

thanks! this is for my best friend, rachel, who is also a self harmer, and i hope to be the voice she hears that makes her stop :)

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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