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Puppet Life Blind

the torch of wisdom have gone away
the school's hallway getting deeply gray,
all the books i read, i cannot play..
almost disturbed and unjust all the day..

that mirror took me eighteen years ago..
when that man raped his girlfriend on a party club,
and the fruit...the fruit of that sin!
me!! on an orphange living been..

mentors told me.."son.grow up..",
"just strive and you will survive"
God! what more can i wish onto this life?
rather than my family of a happy bind!!

my mother..my father..where are you now?
i kept searching for you in the next city and downtown!
i haven't seen you since i was spared from an abortion!
please see this child heart that cannot grow!!

thesis..homeworks..can i stand for long?
alone and alone...should i say bye and so long?
the past haunts me..can i now breathe my last?
to end this hollow agony finally and at last?

just luck lead to my graduation
as a cum laude, for i don't need any profession...
an old lady stood and told she needs to talk with me,
is she my mother? am i right? please somebody!

she told me the whole story..with tears on her eyes..
all's set for their wedding but my dad's lust striked fast!
She's the abortionist who supposed to be my killer!
thanks to you..but where was mother?father?

she blow a sigh and stared in the sky..
please tell me where! don't stare and sigh!
what? it can't be! how? "a tragedy nine years ago",she said
God!! why are they already dead!!
— whitescatter, Feb 07, 2010

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Region, Country: Laguna, PHL

Favorite Poets: William Shakespeare And the NeoPoet Family

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Polya

16 years 4 months ago

Wow

That was so raw, so very personal (or amazingly good empathy) - I commend you for being so bold. I liked how you changed the possessives in the first line of the first stanza and the first line of the last stanza: 'have' instead of has and 'blow' instead of blew. Both are more immediate, and to me they show your connectedness with your past and how it affects your present. Excellent wordplay, I'm a fan - keep letting it out, and I'll keep reading. - Polya
arja

arja

16 years 4 months ago

suggestions

like i said in chat, i felt a connection..but somehow i felt something missing.. Line7 & Line8: "and the fruit…the fruit of that sin! me!! on an orphange living been.." TRY: >"and the fruit of that sin..is me, living in an orphanage.. Line 13: "my mother..my father..where are you now?" TRY: >mother..father..where are you now? ...since you are talking in behalf of the person in the poem, try being that person..after all you'd like that tear to be read and felt at the same time..
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 3 months ago

ambitious

some dubious subtext. badly needs editing Cheers, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible