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Defeated

April 27, 2014
By bcrilley BRONZE, Cedar Grove, New Jersey
bcrilley BRONZE, Cedar Grove, New Jersey
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Standing
In a sea of broken glass
Waves bounce and
Calmly crash
Until the motion fades.

Feeling
All that you don’t know
Lying right beneath
Your toes
You stop and think:

Is it wrong?
To jump right in
To try to win
Against nothing and everything.

Is it wrong?
To get cut and bleed
To feel the need
To let it drip.

Is it wrong?
To slowly heal
To break the seal
And start all over
Again.

It’s not wrong
To go right back
See what you lacked
And soak it
In.


The author's comments:
“Defeated” began as a single phrase “standing in a sea of broken glass.” I wrote it about two years ago and found it just recently. I believe that when I had written I did not understand what I was trying to get across. Finding it now I was able to form this single phrase into a portrait, something I could not so when I had first written it.

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