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You've fallen low

October 25, 2011
By BSzabo GOLD, Pinehurst, North Carolina
BSzabo GOLD, Pinehurst, North Carolina
10 articles 16 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." Pride and Prejudice


Low

You know you've fallen low,
When your body, not just your knees, is pressed against the cool marble of a parish.

You know you've fallen low,
When you need the encouragement of the unknown to get you to what you know.

You know you've fallen low,
When you cry out to an empty room,
Only to hear the screams echoing around you.

You know you've fallen low,
When you drink like its water,
And intoxicate your body on a whim.

You know you've fallen,
When you're too afraid of the past, to move forward.

You know you've fallen,
When you feel nothing but emptiness in your core.

You've fallen,
Low.


The author's comments:
I was asked by someone to write a poem about the word 'low' and this is what I came up with.

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