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Daily Lit Deviations for January 25^th, 2014

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Poetry

_{Suggested by: camelopardalisinblue
Featured by: betwixtthepages}
ConfessionI couldn't keep up the pace
when the accusations leaked into
everything,
so I retreated
inside closed eyes
where the darkness showed me
the light,
while my losses won the war
filling the deficit with their valour.
Now my shoulders bear the burdens
and the scars prove an
unswerving loyalty,
yet only remembered when I
drown my sorrows,
feeling tears appear only to fall down
and escape the obligation to share in the guilt,
of the grand old scheme of things written in the sand
with bullets, from a pen
onto paper made from heroes.
Confession by Puddha1988

<sub>Survivors' guilt is a heavy burden.  
This wonderful poem, by Puddha1988,
explains just how much it can weigh.


Suggested by: camelopardalisinblue
Featured by: betwixtthepages</sub>
Chasefor you i would catch summer
like a teen catching glory on a lean silver bicycle-
ripping through the streets of Triumph and Nostalgia
as if i could conquer or escape each one
and rise- rise- rise with the reddening
of your cheek as it mirrors our desire-
i will chase you until my starving hands
can feel no curves; until my eyes cannot contain
the bursting of your colours like parachutes on a stale
blue sky; until my mouth no longer tastes the days of August
on your lips- 
your season lingers
like a haze in the sahara:
some oversaturated mirage,
 
or maybe just a miracle
that winked out too fast.
Chase by 1nkl1ng

<sub>Sometimes, we waste our efforts
chasing people or dreams we will never
be able to catch up to or touch.


Suggested by: camelopardalisinblue
Featured by: betwixtthepages</sub>

How to Pocket a Man's Humanity by jswebb

_{"First, convince him to adopt / a rescue cat,
fat, days away / from slaughter."  This poem, with
a unique formatting choice, will take you on a
journey.  You won't regret reading this.}

Prose

_{Featured by doodlerTM}
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The Clown Outside the Office Building by TheMitmit

<sub>A strange clown and an unsatisfied main
character make this a chilling, thought-provoking story.


Suggested by: chromeantennae
Featured by BlakeCurran</sub>

The Lies of Fairy Tales‘Sorrow found me when I was young. 
Sorrow waited. Sorrow won.’
- The National.
I sit cross-legged on my bedroom floor surrounded by dozens of children’s books and fairy tale collections. Some of the books are sprawled open onto random pages, where delicate calligraphy detail wonderful love stories, and where colourful illustrations depict beautiful, helpless princesses stuck in towers with chivalrous, handsome knights battling to win their lonely hearts. Other books are piled high on top of one another, creating paper castles and mansions such as the ones described within their very pages, wherein romance blossoms and a happy ending is undeniable and inevitable.
I pore over them all, salted tears falling onto the musty pages, filled with an irrepressible feeling of bitterness. As a child, I loved nothing more than to read these works of fiction. But now as an adult I know that these books are sugar-coated lies laced with deception. I had bee
The Lies of Fairy Tales by CupofCharlie

_{Suggester writes: This piece evokes such
emotion with its powerful imagery and language.
A truly striking piece on love. Or perhaps, the lack thereof.}


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