Down In The Dumps

23 Jan 2005

·Mj

Solitary and decaying Just obscurity and this lump Misery keeps praying Down in the dumps. Rotting to the bone An unemotional constant shadow Darkening the tone Trapped in this strait and narrow Rotted to the bone. From dusk to dawn Lifted to an all-time low Could have sworn One more throb and I’d let go Calling and calling Observing blindly Falling and crawling Rejected unkindly. Like a sprain of an ankle Craving that critical click Soaring to handle This ear-splitting tick. Down in the dumps Forlorn and numb Praying and praying But nobody comes Down in the dumps!

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Mj

I am a young career-oriented coloured female who is inspired by aspects that move my soul: poetry, music, people, futebol and travel. Those 5 aspects add to the ambiguity that is me. I am an extreme nonchalant paradox, someone that I am still...

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