A Life Less Ordinary

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  • travisd76
  • Been on a hiatus for awhile, but I'm back and have the itch to write some poetry.

A Life Less Ordinary

A life less ordinary
for most that's what we seek
we want to go out skydiving
or scale that mountain peak
but why don't we do it
its out of fear I guess
we always go in wanting more
but are always taking less
but are our lives that ordinary
to us they may that seem
but to others peering in on us
it doesn't look that bleak
all the little things in life
that make us who we are
are the things in life we build off
and how we got our scars
its those scars that define me
make me who I am
they are from experiences
that tell about the man
as long as I can learn from them
mistakes are welcomed sights
they're how I can improve myself
and accept that its alright
to be the person that I am
and live the life I do
and not spend time wishing
that for one day I was you

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tenderpoison commented on A Life Less Ordinary

06-07-2009

this is a great thing you've expressed, to take your life and rather than be defined by mistakes and injuries to use those experiences to define yourself...this process I am very familiar with. very nicely done.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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