take me away
Alleviate my suffering
Clean away my sins
Crack open the shell that I live in
and show me the luminescence of life
For I can't love nicely
I can't live kindly
So take me away
To a place that is not here
And when we get there
If we get there
Please
cover my eyes
and let me walk off
by myself.

chiiyo's comments :
Influenced by many sources, but mostly inspired from CLAMP's CLOVER, if you recognise it. This is a very recent poem, written in the later part of 2003. I include it in my list of selected poems mostly because it's new, but it has a raw feeling to it, like it's not really finished yet. I like how the mood kind of changes through the poem: gentle and pleading, and then self-depreciating, then asking, almost begging, lastly a calmer, more determined tone. I don't know, maybe I'm being too pretentious, but these are the feelings I experience when I read the poem.

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