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Flint and Steel

August 21, 2012
By TraceBatWingsAndBrokenStrings DIAMOND, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
TraceBatWingsAndBrokenStrings DIAMOND, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;This gun has stopped time in its tracks, has altered the course of our fate. Destiny is shattered and timeless. Closed eyes feel the cold winds embrace.&quot;<br /> -Avenged Sevenfold


Don't deny the feeling within.
Let it burn its way through the skin.

Flint and steel can char to the bone.
Scraping away like pumice stone.
Concrete sounds calling me away.
Voices in my head that want to play.

Snapped my neck like a mouse in a trap.
A boom of doom calls a bleeding mishap.
Tension tears my soul to shreds.
Rafting a river that's running red.

Murder the light so you can dance with the night.
Embrace the feeling of the venomous bite.
Gouge out your eyes so you can't witness the sight.
Thoughts of love and peace are trite.

Don't deny the feeling within.
Let it burn its way through the skin.

Hold these dying emotions dear.
Melt away with the passing years.
Seduce my heart with skeletal lies.
Careening down to where light dies.

A chance of hope is less than real.
Neurotic thoughts are hard to heal.
A hollow shell does not appeal.
Another side effect of flint and steel.

Murder the light so you can dance with the night.
Embrace the feeling of the venomous bite.
Gouge out your eyes so you can't witness the sight.
Thoughts of love and peace are trite.

Wash down the taste of hate.
The fires of sin cannot create.
Cauterize my life today.
You cannot speak when there's nothing to say.

A door to darkness draws me in.
Apocalypse will soon begin.
Trying to start a Devil's deal.
Another side effect of flint and steel.

Murder the light so you can dance with the night.
Embrace the feeling of the venomous bite.
Gouge out your eyes so you can't witness the sight.
Thoughts of love and peace are trite.

Don't deny the feeling within.
Let it burn its way through the skin.
Life can sometimes seem unreal
When you have a mentality of flint and steel.



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on Sep. 10 2012 at 6:07 pm
stupendousman BRONZE, Peoria, Arizona
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Hey, guys, if there&#039;s no wind, there&#039;s nothing to blow the leaves around.&quot; - from &quot;Sons of Provo&quot;<br /> &quot;Tough times never last, but tough people do&quot;<br /> &quot;the best things in life aren&#039;t things&quot;

this is an amazing poem! it is very interesting! i love the repetition. please rate and comment on my work! i would really appreciate it! :)

on Aug. 30 2012 at 6:30 am
fromtheashes GOLD, ~~~~~, Montana
14 articles 6 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I took the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference&quot;~Robert Frost

love this  i could see myself listening to a song like this  very well written. (:

on Aug. 30 2012 at 6:29 am
Just-Another-Girl GOLD, Keighley, Other
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Favorite Quote:
- &quot;A coward may survive...but a hero..a hero lives on in the hearts of the people he saved&quot;<br /> <br /> - &quot;Words don&#039;t have the power to hurt people, unless the person who said it means a lot&quot;<br /> <br /> -<br /> You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing._

WOW!! I loved it!! It flowed really well the description was amzing! Truely great work!

MadHater said...
on Aug. 25 2012 at 5:28 pm
MadHater, Trophy Club, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.&quot;<br /> -Abraham Lincoln<br /> <br /> or<br /> <br /> &quot;The price of success is responsibility.&quot;<br /> -Winston Churchill

Very detailed and descriptive. It catches attentione easily and fast. Very well written; I enjoyed this poem. Keep writing.