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To Touch The Sky

September 9, 2013
By unicorn_freak SILVER, Cypress, Texas
unicorn_freak SILVER, Cypress, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
"It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known." A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens


Sometimes I think I could touch the sky

If I just jumped high enough

tried hard enough

Or wished loud enough

So I jump

I try

I wish

I do so until I've pushed past my limits

Until rebellious tears run down my face

Until it hurts so bad to try any longer

And I begin to break

Because the odd idea of touching the sky

Somehow transformed along the way

Into a dream, a need

something I had to achieve

And the irony of this fatal situation

Is that in my heart

As I tried

So hard that my molecules trembled

And began to disintegrate

Is that somewhere in my heart

I knew I would fail

For as I jumped and tried and wished

Still I would look down and see my feet

And they would be chained to the ground

An unbreakable bond

And from the start I knew

Even as my need for this began to flourish

That I would fail

I knew that I could not ever touch the sky



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on Sep. 14 2013 at 3:57 pm
unicorn_freak SILVER, Cypress, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
"It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known." A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Hey I posted a new poem and was wondering if you'd tell me what you think :)

on Sep. 13 2013 at 5:53 pm
unicorn_freak SILVER, Cypress, Texas
6 articles 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
"It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known." A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Lol I got the email and read it immediately! I loved it!  

on Sep. 13 2013 at 4:03 pm
hrj_nikki14 SILVER, Apex, North Carolina
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When life gives you lemons, make orange juice, and keep the world to wonder how you did it.<br /> <br /> Women are like angels. You break our wings... we simply continue to fly... on broomsticks. We&#039;re flexible like that (;

Hey! Omg I loved it! Keep it up! Your poem and my poem just came out, like, around the same day! Read it please?