Open Mic: Dear Leonard (Parts 1 and 2)

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    Posted: 23 July 2013 at 12:02am
So yeah  - been tweaking some more of my concept pieces - this one's a happier piece. Based on the suicide note and subsequent drowning of Virginia Woolf - its more spoken word based as per (more traditional pieces will come)

There would be a part 3 from the husbands perspective - but he started fucking someone else quite soon after.. standard.

Dear Leonard, (pt 1)

There’s so much I could write in this letter – so much I could say.
I know I can’t explain myself fully – but there’s no other way.
But maybe there’s a certain something in my brain that I lacked
It’s apt that my final moments are documented between the acts

I think I’m going mad again – can’t face these terrible times
All these voices in my head confirming that I’ll never be fine
And I know I won’t recover this time.
And I know I won’t recover this time.

I hope you understand – I can’t keep veering between happy and sad
please remember this – you have given me every moment of happiness.
Even within and despite this disease – this madness.
But I can’t fight any longer.

If anyone could have saved me – I know it would have been you.
From this day – everyone who looks at you will know it’s true
But Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness
So please understand I have to do this.

Dear Leonard (Part 2)

So I folded the note, and put down the pen.
A sigh of relief? No need to pretend
Just prepare for the final chapter
Prepare for the end.

I put on my coat, fill the pockets with stones
Head down to the river, to spend my last hours alone.
Step in to the water straight from the riverside
No need to hide.
No need to fight these currents 
Spent too much time fighting the tides of my mind.
It’s just a matter of time before I’m taken now.
My last moments at the bottom of the Ouse.


"Sicker Than Thou"


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last stanza was nice as fuck. i enjoyed readin this
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This was dope, loved this shit. Could picture it being sung, not rapped obviously. Good job Hang-man
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pretty good man, yeah i thought this would be sung more than rapped. but still good content.
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Post Options Post Options   Likes (0) Likes(0)   Quote -Que- Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 July 2013 at 6:09am
feeding from a phone..........spoken piece is tight.
I do feel a bit more tweeking isin order.Only
in the momentum department.
Other than that I love double ups ....
the emotion andstrength is solid. Looking
foward to the third.

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I doubt I'll do a 3rd part.. I've got a few other concept pieces to work on and there's not enough material around to work off sadly.
"Sicker Than Thou"


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