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Ssssh, there's someone speaking

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A holiday can help me leave this horrid life behind

but I can’t escape from my turbulent mind.

I feel the only way is to die inside so I can rise like the

Phoenix at the crack of dawn.

Or I could simply sit in absolute silence and go deeper

and deeper

and deeper

till I hear my inner voice

and find my true self.

🌷(3)

◄ To that tantalizing lady in red

Fake You ►

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<Deleted User> (16513)

Sat 18th Mar 2017 07:41

Not about the length but it's the quality. Small but terrible poem. xx

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Raj Ferds

Wed 15th Mar 2017 18:34

Thank you Stu. That's encouraging!

Raj

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Stu Buck

Wed 15th Mar 2017 16:46

good stuff raj, small but perfectly formed, like all the best things.

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Raj Ferds

Wed 15th Mar 2017 08:47

I certainly need that aerial therapy mate. Perhaps I should have a word with Richard 'The Virgin' Branson. He likes that sort of thing?

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Rich

Tue 14th Mar 2017 20:02

Great poem.

<Deleted User> (13762)

Tue 14th Mar 2017 19:42

you really need that balloon trip mate - but failing that I think you have a good solution in the last five lines. Col

PS: I wrote this as quietly as I could.

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