Anyone got a hobby .. or is that what computer games are for?

[KevinM1]

I write (IMO shitty) poetry/song lyrics. And play video games.

Put up some of your work, bud. It's good enough for you to commit it to paper, right?

Okay, here's one of what I consider to be my better efforts:

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My eyes burn with the vision of me that can never be
Everything I've ever wanted just out of reach 
I weep over shattered delusions and the lies I told myself 
Now blank, now null - what is left for me?

And I fall down.

Twisting
And
Turning
And
Gnashing
And
Wailing
And
Clawing
And
Cursing
And 
Scratching
I
Strain to see a sign, a way for me to get out of this
Failure
And
Uselessness
This
Fear
And
Utter loneliness 
I fight
To get out from under this
And with my heart
Trying to escape my chest
Everything just

STOPS!

there's a reflection in the river.
it's me, was me, and he wants to share a secret
"you're the one that's drowning"

My hands struggle to find purchase
As the current threatens to sweep me away
I know the shore is close
I just don't know if I can reach it

But there's value in the effort
And truth in the doing
And I hope that will be enough
To keep me from reaching the bottom

I want to breathe.
I want to choke my old reflection
As evidence of MY life

Push through the shadow,
Pick up what's left
And use it all
To forge a pair of wings

Flying
And
Crying
And
Laughing
And
Living
And
Being
And
Seeing
And
Soaring
I
Transcend what I was
And all that worked to shove me down,
Because there's value in the effort,
And truth in the doing,
Freedom through the struggle,
And peace above all.

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