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Red Ink

July 2, 2013
By caseymarie SILVER, Connellsville, Pennsylvania
caseymarie SILVER, Connellsville, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
Curiosity often gets you into trouble.


This Red Ink has me thinking.
Should I feel guilty for this?
This Red Ink started me blinking.
I turn my head, this wasnt my wish.

Pushing my pen deep into the paper.
A reminiscent of the blood that dripped.
The Red Ink leaks to the back of the paper.
The memory of the blood on your lips.

I push the word "sorry" with the Red Ink.
I would be afraid to say it aloud.
I watch the fat letters start to shrink.
I wonder if you would be proud.

You broke my heart, and thats all I remember.
You took yours and left mine balking.
I thought if I would take yours and dismember,
you would stay with me, but you kept on walking.

Now my hands hold your heart and you are still empty.
Your blood makes the room smell like copper, iron, and zinc.
You are unable to love again, and that tempts me.
So I rip my heart out, in remebrance of the Red Ink.


The author's comments:
This poem is about a boy who broke a girls heart, and left her. The girl thought that if she took his heart (not physically) he would stay with her but he didnt. Now he walks around unable to love anyone and the girl was so heart broken that she ripped her heart out as well. It's kind of like a double sacrifice, except the boy didnt do it because he loved her, but because he doesnt want to love her.

I was inspired by this red pen. If I pushed down on it, it would create a puddle of red ink, it looked a bit like blood.

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on Jul. 17 2013 at 9:10 pm
caseymarie SILVER, Connellsville, Pennsylvania
8 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
Curiosity often gets you into trouble.

I read it and i read some of your poems. I think you are very good(: Hahaha

sarah98 BRONZE said...
on Jul. 12 2013 at 9:19 pm
sarah98 BRONZE, Holyoke, Massachusetts
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It is better to write for yourself and have no audience than write for your audience and have no self.

not saying you have to read it...i mean you can, that would be great. but you did an excellent job with this

sarah98 BRONZE said...
on Jul. 12 2013 at 9:18 pm
sarah98 BRONZE, Holyoke, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
It is better to write for yourself and have no audience than write for your audience and have no self.

haha i think you would like my poem "with or without"