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music
A faint recognition
A song I knew
Once.
Long ago, when I was still
Young
When I was still
Happy.
But now
The song wafts across the room
A mockery
A joke
of the old days
and the new days
They remind me
of the old days
And yet
They aren't similiar
And now the song
Eats away at my heart
Spitting out memories
Old memories
Painful memories
Memories hidden
Too long
Neglected and decayed
And yet
This song I want to hear
I do want to
think back
Even if it was painful
For from sad songs
There may be
A song of the future
Meant for me.

chiiyo's comments :
A semi-depressed poem, inspired when someone I knew started playing the piano during breakfast when we were at camp. It was a classical song, beautiful, charming, well-played, and the guy playing attracted a lot of girls that morning. This poem was a typical written-when-I-was-depressed poem, and yet, somewhat different, that always draws me back into reading. The rambling style, with one sentence slightly different from the other in terms of context and wording, was very typical of the writing style I had then, which consists mainly of little thought and much scribbling of how I felt, as the feelings come, the wording and the twists in the poem more of a instinctive habit rather than a product of the mind.



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