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Drunk

June 20, 2014
By Roseate PLATINUM, San Ramon, California
Roseate PLATINUM, San Ramon, California
35 articles 0 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Life is too short to be anything but happy."


Drunk off books and the deepening dark,
I soak in the print and the black
so I'm inebriated with loose boldness
that will keep me upright
when I see you soon
and your very presence will knock me down,
toppling over all the resolve and strength
I'd mustered and stored for so long
in a single sideways glance,
and when our eyes meet
and yours look away,
it'll take with it the breath
that I dare not exhale--
it'll never return it
the way you never returned my heart,
forcing me to turn to another world
only achieved through drinking in
the enveloping stories and possibilities of the world
in order to fill this growing hole,
and so I begin to get
drunk off books and the deepening dark.


The author's comments:
Unlike some teens, I don't drink to escape the world. I don't do drugs. Instead, to escape, I read. I read for hours, letting the sentences blur, letting my mind be preoccupied by anything other than reality. I subconsciously stay up so much longer than I should so when I sleep, I knock out immediately so I don't have to think about what's going on in my life. I get drunk off alcohol, off the night, but just like real alcohol and drugs, they never quite fill me up. The poem's supposed to be like a cycle-- in the beginning, you start off drunk, and in the end, you're still drunk. And that's how life is sometimes-- you just end up how you started, back at square one.

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on Jun. 22 2014 at 11:33 am
Miss_Orange SILVER, Makati, Other
6 articles 0 photos 112 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I'm OK, I'm Fine and I'm alright are the greatest lies people tell each other everyday." By Me.

Rosie!!! This is great work. Let's get DRUNK together!!-with BOOKS, lots and lots of books!!!! :D I love this one.

on Jun. 22 2014 at 10:56 am
EmilytheBelleofA. DIAMOND, Athens, Georgia
81 articles 5 photos 1486 comments

Favorite Quote:
To love is to be vulnerable; Triumph is born out of struggle; We notice shadows most when they stand alone in the midst of overwhelming light.

I keep coming back to read this. I love it. It's one of my favorite poems. 

on Jun. 21 2014 at 12:26 pm
EmilytheBelleofA. DIAMOND, Athens, Georgia
81 articles 5 photos 1486 comments

Favorite Quote:
To love is to be vulnerable; Triumph is born out of struggle; We notice shadows most when they stand alone in the midst of overwhelming light.

I love this! I've been thinking of writing a poem, like this because that is what I exaxctly do. I love your writing. Escaping from the world by reading is exactly what I do. This is great. Thank you so much, for sharing this!