Special eyes
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Better than me.
Better than me.
You can’t hurt me.
No one can,
I'll make the barrier higher,
Top it with barbed wire,
Watch you struggle to climb over,
Forced to bleed for me.
So you got over the barrier?
What now?
The never ending battle continues,
I won’t let you in,
wont give in,
Why do you keep fighting?
I'll put up stronger forces,
Wait for you to become bored,
Like the rest.
But your still here......
Maybe I will never know,
Maybe I will never understand
Why you've always been there for me,
Offered me your hand.
I tried to protect you from myself,
Tried to show you someone else.
You saw through the mask,
Saw the person inside,
Now I am bare,
No where to hide.
I can’t give you what you should have,
But it's hard when you wont see,
You deserve so much better,
better than me.
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11/24/2003, 12:34 pm
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wanderingsoul
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Re: Better than me.
This is an excellent poem. I REALLY like this part:
You can’t hurt me.
No one can,
I'll make the barrier higher,
Top it with barbed wire,
Watch you struggle to climb over,
Forced to bleed for me.
AND:
I tried to protect you from myself,
Tried to show you someone else.
You saw through the mask,
Saw the person inside,
Now I am bare,
No where to hide.
You really get inside the head of a person with this issue. It is hard when you are conditioned to feel less than. It is something that stays with you your entire life I suspect--and interferes with all your relationships. Having lived with this issue for a while, and fought it and yielded to it and fought it again in a continuing struggle, I can tell you that you have expressed the feelings very well.
I really think you should share this poem with more people than my site can provide. There is a site called The Poet Sanctuary which gets a lot of traffic. If you are interested in posting it there, let me know and I'll give you the link. This is a very worthwhile poem and many people may see themselves--or someone they care about in your words.
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And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered "I Myself amd Heav'n and Hell"
Omar Khayyam
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11/24/2003, 1:04 pm
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