Get This Stuff Off Of Me
6 June, 2011
Author: Meridian Zuriel
Writing like crazy since May 29th
Can’t seem to stop
It’s not that I want to
But emotions got nowhere to go
So I just let ‘em flow
I just let myself vent
On a white piece of paper
As my fingers get to work
Typing and typing in a frenzy
Gotta get this stuff out that’s in me
Been going through
Been holding back
Been going round like the spin cycle
Can’t seem to relax
So I write and I write
Monday through Sunday
From morning to night
Write to stay calm
Write to feel good
Write to make a statement
Write to say what my mouth would
If I wasn’t scared to voice my opinion
If fear didn’t have such dominion
Over my right to the freedom of speech
Still working on that, not giving up on courage
That’s why I write to encourage
Me, myself and I
I write when I should be getting some shut-eye
I write for love, peace and joy
I write to unload, to unwind
I write cause I got so much stuff on my mind
I got a traffic jam of thoughts
My mind’s congested
Wanna be free of this mind
That’s to blame for me not having rested
For a loooooong time
Too young to be an insomniac, unhealthy
Like a walking zombie
Dealing with issues, situations, struggles and challenges
Trying to overcome and triumph over them all
Trying to and wanting in the end to stand tall
My heart’s in my words, as is my soul
This mind’s working overtime all the time
Got to figure out a way to gain control
So until then as I end “Get This Off Of Me”
I write so that the bad will flee
Hoping against hope I’ll live to see
That day when I’ll permanently be free
Another poem filled with emotions is guaranteed
And I don’t mind letting the ink bleed
‘Cause I’m anticipating an Exodus like the Hebrews
When God led them out of captivity
Out of the hand of Pharaoh to pass through the Red Sea
Out of Egypt into a land of milk and honey
...
A reward for this mind that knows no liberty
'Cause this way of living life is crazy
------- Author's Notes -------
The last two breaks in the poem I didn't know whether putting them into the Author's Notes would've been better or not. All I know is, I wanted to keep the last eight lines and didn't have nowhere else to put them. They look a bit out of place, but I couldn't help but keep them. |
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Comments on this poem/writing:
| Shan (206.29.188.228) -- Tuesday, June 7 2011, 12:33 am Love your expression! And I too use writing to get by my own harbored opinions lol my theory, the world couldn't handle them if I said it any other way than poetry ;-) they are spoken and expressed beautifully here! |
| Meri (98.166.194.28) -- Tuesday, June 7 2011, 02:47 am Hey Shan! What would we do without our expression, I don't know. Writing rocks! |
| barb (66.103.60.81) -- Thursday, June 9 2011, 10:25 pm Y0u discribed exactl;y why I write too.Your writing expressived it perfectly Thanks |
| Meri (64.12.117.71) -- Thursday, June 9 2011, 11:52 pm Venting in writing is sometimes better than inhaling and exhaling or talking out loud to yourself. |
| barb (66.103.60.81) -- Friday, June 10 2011, 04:45 pm If you talk to yourself at least you never feel alione lol |
| Meri (98.166.194.28) -- Friday, June 10 2011, 07:13 pm I guess you can have a good time like that. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in thinking out loud, one would've thought I was talking to another individual. |
| Becky (75.16.229.32) -- Friday, June 10 2011, 11:47 pm Venting in Poetry is very stress relieving for me especially if I am having trouble trying to sleep cause something is on my mind... Voicing it aloud is for the real peeved-off moments of unsaid conversations with people I would love to really be able to say it too.. and works best when taking a shower or driving somewhere when I alone.. best not to write those down... lol |
| Meri (205.188.116.135) -- Saturday, June 11 2011, 12:29 am Hey Becky. Yes. I can imagine why you didn't write those thoughts down. I had to smile at that one. Thanks for keeping it clean. Haha. |
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