Living With Strangers

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Poem By: Dmonik
Poetry

Tags: multiple, personality, reflections, tortured, scared

Living with myself and the multiple personas I have. It's hard work sometimes. View table of contents...

Submitted: Jun 7, 2007 Reads: 35 Comments: 3 Likes: 0

Looking in the mirror

See a face that isn't mine

Through screaming paranoia

Personality, unwinds

A face that needs shaving

A face that wants a beard

A face that's free of make-up

A face that loves to fear

Try to wash away the strangers

Invaders of my mind

Cold showers, boiling water

Irrigation, cerebral kind

Wipe the mists of anonymity

To see the real me

Not monsters in the mirror

The red eyed freaks of me

Living with a stranger

Not knowing who I am

Reflections torture, contemptualise

Wipe away with hand

Scared of who I want to be

Denying what is me

A fracture line insanity

Monsters leave and let me be.

Please

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Comments:

mar1e

Nice one!
I talk to myself in the mirror sometimes... :)

Posted: Jun 7, 2007

Author Comment:

Thankyou very much :) I talk to myself too, but sometimes, I see myself as a different charcter in life. I'm not me, I'm a complete play. So many parts to play, lines to remember..... Strange. Thanks for your comments :) They are appreciated

WhiteWolf

Yeah, I get this, there's so many parts to a personality, it can be hard. Unless you are one of those people that are cut straight down the center and therefore have no brain! I really got the feeling in this, although this time it's not good-what the mother shall I wear?!!!!

Posted: Jun 7, 2007

Author Comment:

This was partly written, in all honesty at about 3.30 this morning, so I was red eyed and bleary, and in pain. So I wasn't in a good mood. Staring in the mirror, I saw myself in myself, if that makes sense....NO? Not to me either. There are so many parts to us, that we only ever show a tiny percentage off, like a public gallery, only ever showing the best work, what we think joe public would like. Dig deeper, and you start to find the true art, the true person. Thanks for your comments Wolfy. Great news too, I just stocked up on Scooby Snaks, lol.

Tina

I really like this, it's deep and easy to relate to. x

Posted: Jun 7, 2007

Author Comment:

Thanks again Tina :) I think we all have different personalities inside us, just waiting to break out. Glad you find this piece easy to relate to. Thanks for your comments Dear :)