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Jul 01, 2009
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Misplaced Determination
Tantalus,
Would this fruit you reach for
Become bitter in your mouth,
For all of your struggling
If you were ever able to
reach it ?
Or would the taunting need
Become it's own form of hell,
Once this object reached your eager hands
And found its way to your lips?
Hunger drives you to desperately
Stretch yourself beyond your limits,
For there is no other food to be found.
But what choice do you have
Fixed in your place,
Receiving your due punishment
From the hands of the gods.
Would this fruit you reach for
Become bitter in your mouth,
For all of your struggling
If you were ever able to
reach it ?
Or would the taunting need
Become it's own form of hell,
Once this object reached your eager hands
And found its way to your lips?
Hunger drives you to desperately
Stretch yourself beyond your limits,
For there is no other food to be found.
But what choice do you have
Fixed in your place,
Receiving your due punishment
From the hands of the gods.
— Blue_Halcyon, Jul 01, 2009
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Critiques
Geezer
16 years 11 months ago
It must be ....
Bonitaj
16 years 11 months ago
like what I read here
iverhyck
16 years 9 months ago
Well… Interesting, though