I,m just an actor who acts like a man

by PAUL HEWSON   Apr 25, 2005


I feel the need to be prolific
to mean something but to be realistic
my mirror reflects the things i most hate
i look like shit but feel" almost great"
I'm not the type who justs has a drink
i get real smashed and puke in the sink

i,m not a man who needs to lie
i have lied so much i don't need to try
i,m not the man that you think i am
i,m just an actor who acts like a man

i have an ambition to be ambitious
something simple not to strenuous
the way that i feel is what hurts me all over
i feel like shit , but that coz I'm sober
I'm not the type who just has a smoke
I'm an addict to , drink , crack , and coke

i,m not a man who needs to lie
i,ve lied so much i don't need to try
i,m not the man that you think i am
i,m just an actor who acts like a man

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  • 16 years ago

    by GretaInsideOut

    Really great poem, it's crude but it's real.
    I respect you for that.
    Keep up the god work.
    Greta

  • 19 years ago

    by HOLLY ARMER

    Great piece! You conveyed this with such.....what's the word? Not sure, but the honesty in this poem is very powerful! These were my favorite lines:

    "i have an ambition to be ambitious
    something simple not to strenuous"

    Take care~Holly

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