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I am The Devil’s Own
I am the devil’s own
Rejected and jaded
Nothing but emptiness awaits me
The horrible thing that has plagued me
I should be used to it by now
But it still doesn’t seem right
I don’t know why or how
I just know that the pain
It always returns
Seems I ll never learn
My home is in the dark
So why do my eyes yearn for light
I ve always been a caged bird
So why do I yearn for flight?
My heart slumbers and sleeps
And awakens suddenly
To torment me
Love is not for me
Happiness is not mine
Can’t reach the top
So why do I want to climb
Its hell simple and plain
Stuck in a desert
Begging for rain
I am the devil’s own
Jaded angel made devil
Still tormented by hellfire
It’s the pain of love’s desire
In your poem you set high
In your poem you set high goals for yourself; and always being disappointed at not attaining those goals, I think many of us know this feeling. Maybe the answer is to set lesser goals that can add up to a successful life instead. And a sense of achievment to stay with a person so lessening the dessert effect. The poem is a good read and well written.
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I will give your words
I will give your words consideration. Though it is built in us to aspire to high goals baecause we think of them as the goals that are worth living for. They are often idealistic and lend toward disappointment upon failure. The goal refrenced to in this poem is to achieve true love. Something that has escaped me. It is not a realistic goal and I ve even considered it to be a foolish one. However that fact does not stop the heart's desire for it. This dissonance creates the hell described in the poem. I have established my own realisitc goals but I can do nothing to change the foolish goals of my heart. I can only hope to ignore them in lieu of that which is more realistic. Thank you fot sharing your thoughts on my poem 'The Devil's Own'.