Fading Away {Ottava Rima}

Can you see me slowly fading away,
My presence drifting into the distance?
The tears I've cried no longer display,
The pain that I feel through all the silence.
My mouth is sewn shut so words cannot spray,
Of what is trapped inside of my conscience.
Would you rather have me slip down and fall,
Or should I never say goodbye at all?

Can you feel all of the pain that I feel,
The throbbing ache that is within my mind?
Are you aware of what my lies reveal,
Or have you now become completely blind?
All of my truth to you seems too unreal,
And that's why you don't try to dig and find.
Will you reach deep and force it out of me,
Or are you just going to leave me be?

Can you hear of this help that I crave for,
As I am screaming it towards your ears?
Begging and crawling all over the floor,
Still reaching for your hand while I'm in tears.
Being pushed back; I can't take anymore,
Rejection is one of my biggest fears.
Save me from who you have made me become,
Because you know that you're not the victim.

Copyright © Natalie 2006

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Ottava Rima is a poem where the stanzas consist of eight
lines each. Each line has a ten -or- eleven syllable count.
The rhyming scheme for Ottava Rima is as follows:

abababcc
dededeff
ghghghii
And so on for as many stanzas as you wish
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