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escapism

a poem about the desire to escape life

By NicolePublished 10 months ago 1 min read
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real is life is unappealing

so i lose myself in the grips of imaginary

things that compel me like magic: music, literature, television

i close my eyes and let the music play in my head and my mind is consumed by thoughts of

tall medieval castles with sky ceilings

warm green fields on a foreign planet

a shiny gold castle where women in elegant flowing dresses reside

black scaled dragons flying through blue skies

it feels like total bliss and euphoria

but then it becomes longing and melancholy

i desire for the fairytales to become real

but in the end

all those stories

all those places

all those people

they were just words on paper

i realize that they are fake,

but they are my only escape

sad poetry
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