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Shatter Heart

May 28, 2010
By Adish BRONZE, Palmdale, California
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A silent breeze,
Rustles the leaves.
A hollow echo,
In a lonely place.

The trees have grown,
Dark and shifty with age.
Dark shadows dance,
A ritual to appease.

A dream plays in my head,
Shatters and comes back again.
Bound by chains,
The wind makes them cackle.

Awakened again,
Alone in an unknown.
Crystals slid down cheeks,
I promised I wouldn’t cry.

A dash,
To anywhere but here.
Things become blurry,
Shadows race ahead.

A memory resonates,
A scar in my heart.
The blurs turn to glass and crack,
Just as a shattered heart.

© Josh J., Highland Village, TX

The author's comments:
A poem I wrote. It was supposed to be just about a bad memory but one of my friends who read it asked if the speaker was a rape victim or something like that. I didn't realize the poem gave that impression. So does it?
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friend-less said...
on Aug. 11 2010 at 8:54 am
friend-less, Natick, Massachusetts
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hmmmm... I don't really understand what's going on in the poem. Some of the imagery is great, but it doesn't really tell a story. As a reader, I would be more interested to know what memory you are thinking about... not sure if anyone else is with me on that. but really good imagery.
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on Jul. 19 2010 at 7:06 pm
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This is good, but it doesnt give the impression or the picture of a rape victim. More like a person that has maybe been abused or has lost someone close to them, or I'll even go as far as saying that they have lost themselves in the world. Good!

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