Black Pages

A person once asked me, 

'What's your story?'

I pondered for moments then I told her,

"My story is untold,

The ink I spend is upon black pages,

For then only I know the story before the pen,

Why you ask? Does is add mystery, maybe? Am I hiding the life I was given?

No....

I write upon these pages so the expectations for me are unknown,

And so the past I have suffered would not interfere with the future I'm given".

Confusion riddled her face,

"But you have told me nothing" 

I smiled at her and raised my eyebrows,

"Exactly, I would exist as an entity and through the voices of others,

 A ghost by metaphor and a shade in shadow"

She sighed and asked me,

"Will I ever know of your life?"

A took her hands and I told her,

"Well my sweet that's the beauty of it

You have a lifetime to try" 

Reviews

[Patricia B. Hepler]

Excellent.
~pat

[Jamie Cook]

OOOOOoooooh O.O I liiiiiiiiiiiike it :D lol the ending, like ain't nobody got time for that, I honestly would be like...byyyye, but no this was a good piece, it was very well written and captured my attention like yellow penguins. Awesome job dude!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Excellent and original. the narrative style works well in this tale that is spiced in folklore. The ending is beautiful.

[Forgotten]

Thank you for your wonderful review :)

[C.C. Marx]

That beauty of life is that we have this time to figure out who we are but sometimes it'd even a mystery to our selves. You learn something new about people, and yourself everyday. Great write, definitely a favorite

[Forgotten]

Thank you for your review, I guess everyone has that stage where they try to find there identity. I found mine not long ago and when I did I wondered why I it took long for me to finally find it

[C.C. Marx]

My pleasure, and sometimes you just don't see what's right in front of you, and when you do, you're like "well how could I have missed that?" I searched for me for a while then realized I contradict myself so often it was pointless, just live is what I say

[Forgotten]

Haha yeah that's a good way to go really :) I guess having an identity of sort makes people feel more comforted I know I do myself

[C.C. Marx]

I'm the opposite I love being unpredictable and surprising myself to me it makes my life more interesting/amusing, the identity thing can wait a bit :p

[Forgotten]

Hahaha well I'm sure hanging out with you would be a big ol' laugh then =D

[C.C. Marx]

Haha well I do love hanging out with myself so I can attest to that ;) well there's never a dull moment especially with my lack of filter and possible ADD which makes me act like a five year old on a sugar high lol

[Forgotten]

Hahaha now that is fun, oddly enough I seem quite sane until I'm with people then they kinda realise oh god he's insane :P

[C.C. Marx]

That's the beauty of it, the people who know you best know your insane but choose to hang out with you anyways

[Forgotten]

Haha yeah, well I haven't spent time with another person apart form my cousin for about 4 months now ;) It gets lonely

[C.C. Marx]

That's a shame! Get out and be social my friend! Though we all know your not suppose to talk to strangers, take my word of advice, sometimes strangers are the most interesting people to talk to haha that sounds so naiive of me

[Forgotten]

Haha strangers can be fun! I've met enough in my time, the best strangers are the ones that know you but you have no idea who they are!

[C.C. Marx]

Oh that's a little sketchy don't you think? Unless you just don't remember them...I've had some fun with strangers in my time, you know that old saying never take candy from strangers? Being the strange individual I am I once asked a stranger for their candy, they were quite confused lol

[Forgotten]

Hahaha, switching it around on them! Now that is how to play it, yeah I usually just don't remember them, people from years ago :P

[C.C. Marx]

Ehh I tend to forget names but random facts and memories stay permenantly stored, my mind remembers what it wishes to, not what I would think!! I prefer to switch things up, you gotta keep people on their toes!

[Forgotten]

Haha yeah I always remember random crap I'll never need to know, like I know the reason Radiators are incorrectly named :P

[C.C. Marx]

Really? Do tell...my mind prefers useless info like I could name you five different roman emperors and why they are famous and the chemical process plants very deep in the ocean use when there is lack of sunlight but ask me to name my crush in first grade or my third grade teacher and I draw a blank

[Forgotten]

Hahahaha :P Well a radiator is incorrectly named because it emits heat rather than radiate it. Radiation has a formation of waves while an emitter heats particles and causes them to flow more quickly, so a radiator emits heat rather than radiates it.

[C.C. Marx]

Well isnt that convient, the inventor of the radiator was obviously smoking something at the time he named it or a little bit too hopped up on sugar possibly...strange how the mind loves to remember the least important things possible but loves to forget the stuff u really need to remember

[Forgotten]

Haha yeah! I've bored many a person with that fact, I've only met a few people who it actually interested :P I always remember crap I don't need to know, but knowing Roman emperors now that is interesting but then I love history and science so this all interests me =D

[C.C. Marx]

History has always been one of my best subjects so memorizing that stuff was easy, now that chemical crap, that was one of the few things I actually learned when I took oceanography, it was a sleeping period I guess you could say lol I'm always up for random facts, add them to the mental collection

[Forgotten]

Haha yeah I'm always adding new facts to the old noggin! But hopefully I'm going to do a college course in Scotland for science and go to Uni for a degree and go into teaching :)

[C.C. Marx]

Teaching, you brave soul!! I have no patience for children especially if they act like some of the kids I've had the "pleasure" of going to school with, I like to help just not for very long I guess I could say haha I personally hope to major in bio someday then work in the medical field

[Forgotten]

Oh now that would be awesome :) I have quite a lot of patience when it comes to children and well I love teaching people about things so I thought hey why not go into teaching :)

[C.C. Marx]

That's a great profession for those who love kids and helping them but hey it isn't for everyone, mainly me, I'd be the teacher screaming at the kids and probably yelling profanity words well depending on the age of course :p

[Forgotten]

Haha oh don't worry that'll be me one day, the teacher losing his hair because the children have driven me to insanity!

[C.C. Marx]

I swear I already have grey hair from the children I babysit, the evil devil spawn tried to tie me up with a jump rope -_-

[Forgotten]

Haha oh god, now that is misbehaving children, I recently had to babysit my aunties children, it was fine...for about an hour then it was like kill me now please!

[C.C. Marx]

I had to amuse the brats for five hours, good money bad not a fun night, I ended up eating there food and stealing there wifi

[Forgotten]

Haha well I did it for free! After that hour it was like, please please go back to bed!

[C.C. Marx]

I sent them to bed early because they were so horrible I couldn't deal any more!! I can't imagine doing it for free, hardwork

[Forgotten]

Haha yeah well it was family, I wasn't going to ask for money :P My payment was all the pork pies in the fridge so I was happy as pie!

[C.C. Marx]

Oh dear well if I was to babysit the brats in my family I would most certainly charge haha and pork pies now? That does not sound appetizing but if it was regular pie hahs

[Rhianne Ney]

Whoa, great going there, yes, we sure are enigmas which can't be understood that fast, even if we fill a lot of blank pages with the memories of our life it wouldn't result to anything and it might not even change our own outlook of who we really are because we don't understand ourselves either and that's the whole mystery of it. Great job!

[Forgotten]

Thank you for your wonderful review! Yes even we don't really know our own selves, it's a strange one but interesting nonetheless :)

[Rhianne Ney]

That's right and you're welcome

[saratogaparty]

Ohhhh I bet that made her angry!

But this is very well written.

[Forgotten]

Oh she was steaming for sure ;) Thank you for your review

[redflutterby]

This really speaks to me... for years I didn't want anyone to read what i wrote out of the fear of being judged. But I see a deeper meaning here...how sometimes we don't want others to see what we long to become or what we have been. Wonderful piece....great writing!!!

[Forgotten]

Ah yes, well I guess this was a personal one, I've done a lot of things in life I'm not proud of and those would be my black pages, stories and chapters I would not want others to read of my life. And I have no idea why you would be scared your work is amazing! Thank you for your review :)

[Jazique]

Nice that was just wonderful and I jus love the last line "You have a lifetime to try." Honestly some stories are just meant to be unknown. Anyways i love your poem, well done.it really spoke to me.

[Forgotten]

I think a lot of stories are to left unknown, means when you go you'll be leaving your mysterious past behind, now wouldn't that get people wondering ;)

[Jazique]

Yeah its something people always keep wondering about and thats what will make you remebered, the mystery that never ended. I mean sure we love shakespeare's (or Edward Devere) plays but, its really the mystery of the person itself that has kept our entrance all these decades

[Miranda Richard]

Such raw emotion! You have lovely detail, and a lot of potential. A wonderful poem ;)

[Forgotten]

Thank you for your wonderful review :)