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Getting Through : Creative Writing
DROWNING LILY | from live_fast-die_young - Thursday, December 01, 2005
accessed 1363 times This is for those (former members) who have died, who have contemplated suicide, who have struggled with depression, who are still dealing. The poem compares those who have struggled to adjust to their new lives in society to lily-pads: breathing the air yet always of the water; living in both worlds and ultimately unable to survive without either.
The water-lilies have
All grown up now,
Cropped their hair
Modern for the city.
The one I first kissed
In the moss-green cup
Wears green for the desert
And sand for his mind.
Once floated by the fish
White flag to the land-life
They have flown, flopped,
Grown roots, and drowned.
In the density of the city
The lilies cried for water
Till they dried up
Cut their hair and turned brown. |
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