On the Inside Looking Out

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Title: On the Inside Looking Out
Type: Poetry
Prompt: Write a prose about a memory and then write a poem from it.
Warning(s): Aside from my blatant display of insanity and emo tendencies, nothing.
Disclaimer: Poem written by tao_empress and should not be submitted stating otherwise.
Notes: Written as an assignment for class from the perspective of the goldfish I had been staring at in the Chinese restaurant. I think the class spent the entire workshop believing it was about a person and some deeper meaning in life. Oh, if only they knew. xD
Dedicated to: My Creative Writing: Poetry class. I just love fucking with people's minds. :P

Floating around, suspended in space
Breathing, maybe drinking
But just being

Brown eyes and pale hands with small fingers
Making smudges in my vision
Blurring into white
Shining under the light

Fading in and out of my world
This was my life
Existing, waiting for death
Not wanting much else
Expecting little else

Of hands and teeth
In the midst of meet and greets
Meals made
Of fellow water dwellers
Happily, that is not my fate

Shining smiles turn to impatient frowns
Remedied by one so dear
Nothing to fear
Enveloping her in warmth
Impatience stalled

And outside it snows
Cold and wet like my world

Written January 11, 2007

Comments

[dansunedisco.livejournal.com]

Baby, you know I loved this. <3

...but that's a total emo!fish! XD

[tao-empress.livejournal.com]

I never said I didn't love it. ^_~

...and yes, I never realized how emo the life of a goldfish could be. :/