Lost My Shine (Based In True Events)

in poetry •  6 years ago 

Based on events that happened to me yesterday

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A thousand reasons to smile, I only need one to cry

I look at what I'm becoming and my tears refuse to dry

I guess my selfishness and greed has gotten to a new high

There's no washing off this guilt no matter how much I try

Mother always believes I will grow wings and fly

Gravity works for the opposite as my ego multiply

I'm everyone's best friend until I make the first mistake to lie

And then I become consumed with myself until I die

In case you're wondering, these are just lines

If you don't want a swollen jaw, don't ask for punchlines

But to be honest, these thoughts are all mine

All it took was some reprimand and I've lost my shine

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Beautiful words, I felt that way many months ago, it was really hard to keep, but, I decided to change the game. Another chapter of my life, a renewed season, but now I'm fine, I just had to make change, that is all than we have to feel good with ourselves

I'm sorry I'm just responding

Yeah, we always have to make changes; I had to. Make some after writing the poem.

at the end, we all want to feel good about ourselves.

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I don't understand how you manage to come up with these amazing words every time @iamthegray. Marvelous!

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Thanks a lot for the support and compliment

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If you don't want a swollen jaw, don't ask for punchlines

I find this post serious but that line right there made me smile somehow. I find that funny.

It is given that one mistake will forever doom us. Sadly, the good things we do can be forgotten but not the bad we did. Even though we changed to be better or suffered the consequences of what we did, it still takes time for others to forgive us.

Yeah...

One action can change a lot of things

My boss was terribly disappointed in me. We're cool though. It just won't happen again.

That happens to me a lot of times but what I like about my boss is he is very accepting and understanding of things.

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Shine.... it comes and goes. :)

This is past the payout .... but I'll upvote your comment if you reply- because this was excellent!

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Thanks a lot

I actually wrote that piece as a freestyle and posted it on my whatsapp status. Because I don't have anything to post that day, I decided to post it. (plus lots of people like it)

To me, it isn't really that grand. It's just an expression of how I felt that day. I felt disappointed, you know. That day, I had a lot to be happy for but the reprimand kept on reverberating in my head. I even showed my boss the poem

But thanks for the compliment. I'm happy that even my freewrites can be considered as good. I guess when I return to writing, these freewrites would have helped my creativity and 'spontaneousness'

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