I Can

by Poppy Mare

Published June 20, 2008

In My Inked Hands

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I can’t sing, or draw or write very well. All I know is that I have another ability that most people just ignore. The power to imagine and create my own life threatening problems.

I can make a tear roll down my cheek when I see a friend die. I can feel the adrenaline rush through my veins as I fly over the dessert with no one to save me. I can feel pleasure, kissing the prettiest boy in the whole wide world.

Okay, so I can’t really do all that. But I can. I just can in my head. During school time I would sit out in the sun and make the whole world dark. I would meet my true friends and enemies and I would know how to fight. I would have wings and fly out of the school, city, my own body, and still be here.

I can make myself the hero, saving my man from the ultimate form of evil. Or I can be the villain, torturing those who oppose my thoughts and ideas. I can make myself look pretty and have all the guys chase after me. I can make the best Whopper you’ve ever tasted.

I can do a lot of things and sometimes I feel awful about it. When I make one of my friends die I do tend to cry, but for some reason there is some for of pleasure from it. When I see them go down and not move anymore, I feel powerful. No, I don’t really kill my friends, just the ones in my head. And I remember how they die and rewind it in my head.

In my mind, it’s like I am the Goddess of my own world. The mental one anyways. Where I can sing, draw, and write.

-Poppy Mare

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chocoholic wrote a review Review · Jul 8, 2008

Interesting. I've never seen anything like this before. I can't say I understood it fully, but I liked it all the same. I found one mistake:

dessert


Should be desert, unless you're planning on flying over ice-cream, pudding, cake, jelly, etc.

I can make myself the hero, saving my man from the ultimate form of evil. Or I can be the villain, torturing those who oppose my thoughts and ideas.


This bit was really good. Very strong and very true.

There's not much else I can say apart from I liked this and I think you did a really good job.

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.:Echelon:. commented Comment · Jul 6, 2008

It was so brilliant I just dont what to say. :'D

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EbonyAutumn commented Comment · Jun 30, 2008

I <3 it.

I feel the same way. It also goes along with reading-shutting everything out and being absorbed by the words.

Very good descriptions!



I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.
— Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X