In 12 Lines or Less: GIVE US YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY POETICALLY

by Terry 59 Replies latest jw friends

  • slipnslidemaster
    slipnslidemaster

    Roses are red

    violets are blue

    I'm a hot piece of ass

    and so am I

  • Narcissistic Supply
    Narcissistic Supply

    Be Strong. Have some balls.

  • THE GLADIATOR
    THE GLADIATOR

    Letting Go

    I reach but cannot grasp, my hand is weak at last; falling I look up towards an empty sky

    Look an empty cup, half full before, I could reach out but why?

    I understand now I am older, so much I was not told; that cunning façade, neatly labelled life

    Illusion thinly dressed as valued gold; the thin veneer has worn away, to uncover nothing that is real

    Reality was carefully hidden underneath the trampled boards, beneath the playhouse stage

    Away from actors playing out their passion and their rage.

    Neither a player nor a patron, unconvinced and un-amused, I shake my weary head and refuse

    Just a drifter passing through, I leave no trace behind. Invisible before I’m gone, I’m in a place called truth. H ere there is no night or day

    No judgment, wrong or right; no battles left to fight; no need to be afraid, my dues have all been paid. I did not slip or fall

    I just refused to hold. I was not struck blind, I simply closed my mind

  • nugget
    nugget

    I study the Bible to please my mum

    To be noticed not to be a mistake.

    Put off baptism as long as I could to please my Dad

    Gave up on a life outside my narrow faith.

    Married for love to please myself

    Struggled to be a good christian wife

    content to fit the accepted mould

    To satisfy my husbands theocratic life

    Had children to spite my God

    I saw my life replayed in theirs

    I knew then that things must change

    I gave them freedom instead of prayers.

  • Miss.Fit
    Miss.Fit

    Great job.

    More please.

    Missy

  • Miss.Fit
    Miss.Fit

    Bttt... anyone else?

  • WideAwake
    WideAwake

    This is a post from my lovely wife:

    District Convention around '73

    My mother bounced me on her knee

    " Children here today won't go to school"

    How she was taken for such a fool

    Dad was an elder "super fine"

    My teenage years wasted, towing the line

    Pioneered, married, family and that.....

    Journeyed together and then we learned TTATT

    5th generation Jdubs my kids would now be

    If we'd not taken the steps to set ourselves free

    So we've run for the hills, through struggle and stumble

    and look back to see the watchtower crumble

  • TheClarinetist
    TheClarinetist

    I, true believer,

    Sought better life in college

    Now I'm fucking poor.

  • Miss.Fit
    Miss.Fit

    Bumping for any new ones that would like to contribute.

  • LucidChimp
    LucidChimp

    As a boy
    I was certain of only two things:

    God's anger,-
    and apparent inability to set dates
    by the Gregorian calender

    I was out-raged but in-doctrinated

    And although it's complicated,-
    all it really took was a couple of days
    researching the couple of pages
    before the book of Revelation
    to destroy my faith in biblical inspiration

    (for good)

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