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Ruins (Poem)

(First Poem I Am Posting On This Account. First Poem I've Even Written In A While. Hope Others Enjoy πŸ–€.)





My body is a vestige of

wars and culture and history

long enough ago to still

be in memory, just barely,

but passed over all the same.


I am ruins,

a castle in the distance,Β 

weathered cobblestone street,

burned corridors and otherΒ 

signs of past struggle.


I am not dusty, I am

pruned ruins, upkept and preserved.

I am still filthy, a symbol

of bad history, bad politics.

Mine is tainted land.


I have not been reconstructed

or rebuilt or refashioned.

I’ve remained dread ruins,

the forever reluctance

of past, present, and future.


(…)


Am I ruins forever more?


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12 Kudos

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This is beautiful. I love the imagery. I really connect to this as I feel like it speaks partially to my dysphoria and occasional dissociation, but also to how objectified our bodies have become in this current state of the world. Bodies no longer represent an individual, but rather are objects for others to make decisions about.
The more I read it the more I break it down into different things. The wars and bad politics feel like a struggle with mental health, and how those scars remain with us forever. I don't mean to analyze or over-analyze your work, I look forward to more in the future if you plan to continue writing!


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Noo I appreciate it actually! A lot of what you named is actually what I was thinking about during it, although less of any of it specifically and more so all of it combined. I sort of feel like hollowed out ruins lately. Like I have too much "baggage" like these ruins do.

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i really like the contrast of the building as a metaphor for the body - solid, hard, cold vs soft, warm, alive. thats rlly cool !!!


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Thank youuu. I wrote it with my own body in mind and I feel like that contrast is what was on my mind, specifically the way in which my body seems more like an old inanimate thing like ruins to me as opposed to what it should be.

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