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Copperfield17 — A Sea of Troubles
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Published: 2011-07-28 20:59:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 113; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 1
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Simplicity is easy to veneratefor one such as me, easy to violate.
But if not for the simple times,
tremors would shake to the foundation of my mind.
So let me lay here
in this simplicity
so I may feel the stillness dear,
and hide in quiet from ecstasy.
I may not find more than useless frames,
unkind windows that skew all inside them.
Still yet I may see hope, even in pursuit of pain.
For my eyes will clear from what derides them.
Touch a coal to their impurity
and burn away their madness.
For still they burn with sadness,
yet I'd rather burn now than for eternity.
A simple, truthful trust
is all you ask of my heart.
And though I desire to throw off this lust
I cannot, without your healing, even start.
So I will pray again to be free.
And many others now pray with me.
The supplications rise like the tide of the sea
to coarse over the sands of your shore and ask for my key.
But even so
the journey we walk together
burns away the falsehoods that would bring me woe.
There is no time for the false, unready for the endeavor.
And there is truth in suffering with friends.
A truth that we conquer the darkness until the end.
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I absolutely adore this poem. <3 it really speaks to me, and it seems to be exactly what I'm feeling these days (though I may be misinterpreting it, because I have a habit of doing that). The first stanza takes me back to simpler time, reminds me of rainy sunday mornings spent cuddling under blankets with my love.
One question though: in the line, "and hide in quite from ecstasy." did you mean to write 'quite' or 'quiet'? It sort of works both ways, but it makes more sense (to me, anyway) if it's 'quiet'.
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I try to write so that everyone can draw what speaks to them from the words. For me, the words remind me of a time when I didn't have to worry about doing the right thing because the choices were simple. Now, with the responsibilities and complexities of adulthood, choices effect more and are far less clear as well as the fact that I struggle constantly with my own desires, which is that line you were wondering about. So in a way, it is a way to thank God and everyone who has cared enough to stick around because I know that the world does not forgive difference, but those individuals do.
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oh ok! I can see that now!
Btw, chapter 5 is now up and ready!! ^_^
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