Detach
By: Ethiwen
Disclaimer: I don't own RENT.
Summary: Random poem
Author's Notes: Wrote this after musing on Mark detaching…'cause I have no life and I find myself thinking about random things. This kinda just typed itself. Feedback is appreciated.
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DETACH
Remove yourself
from feeling, from emotion.
Withdraw to the private realm
you've created in your mind.
Fantasy is easier to cope with.
Cloud your vision.
Don't see out,
don't allow others to see in.
Hide the pain, the hurt.
Detach.
The pain and the hurt don't exist.
Not in the quiet world in your head.
You don't exist.
Fade into your thoughts.
Will anyone note your absence?
Will they be able to tell you've gone
when you're standing right in front of them?
The lie takes your place.
The façade takes on an existence of its own,
breathing, thinking, living.
but you're too far removed to care.
So the smile lights up your plastic face,
but the light in your eyes has long been extinguished,
For who needs light, in a world enlightened by dreams?