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Your brilliance
Blinds me.
I taste
The salt.
The barrel,
It burns.
I stare
In awe.
I lick
My lips
And spin
The rifle.
It slaps
And bruises
And still
It stays.
I
Am tired.
My arms
Are searing;
Fire
Is blood
Running
In my veins.
It hurts.
And hurts.
And hurts.
Hurts
Hurts
Hurts
But you,
You stare
And tell me,
Try harder.
I say,
Yes Ma'am
And slacken
My arms.
Gasp,
I don't;
Cry,
I don't—
I hitch
The rifle
Higher
And grimace
Only
In my heart.
Harder,
Next time.
Try harder.
The ice
Floods
Me.
I tighten
And feel
My purple
Arms break
Inside,
But I—
I hold,
And lock
My pain
Away.
- by Peridot Tears |
- Poetry And Lyrics
- | Submitted on 09/10/2010 |
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- Title: I Wonder Why I'm Here
- Artist: Peridot Tears
- Description: This was written a couple of weeks ago; and just a heads-up -- this is definitely on two other accounts I have on the internet, so I didn't steal it. I'm not very good at poetry -- my forte is in prose -- but this was something that came right off the top of my head. I'm a cadet on my school's armed drill team, and I might as well express how hard it is, to be on it and practice. It really is hard, and I have the scars and bruise to prove it.
- Date: 09/10/2010
- Tags: armeddrill rifle highschool jrotc
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