Like Cockroaches it will Survive

by Everlasting   Dec 27, 2016


My ignorance is like cockroaches
walking through thoughts

feeding from every fear and joy
and anything it can possibly can
while leaving eggs on memories.

I cannot kill it,

No matter how many times,

I step on it.

Written by: L.L.

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  • 7 years ago

    by Em

    Luce, this is fantastic. You're writes always make me wonder about things that I probably wouldn't have done about before or not much anyways lol

    Cockroaches to me are harmless though I guess they smell a little so this made me think that something or someone is hanging around like a bad smell and no matter how much you want them out your life they will not disappear (from mind) completely and I feel this is because once upon time these people or this person meant alot to you so it will in my humble opinion (lol) be very difficult to forget them and possibly even forgive them for things they did.. Just my thoughts.
    Anyway I do feel there's alot more to this than meets the eye and as Michael said I would check line 4.
    Fabulous wrote as always.
    Em

    • 7 years ago

      by Everlasting

      Thanks Em, I don't know if they are harmless... well, there are places where they have them as pets but I think it might depend on the kind of roach...

      (Ah my ignorance,) I really don't know.

  • 7 years ago

    by Mr. Darcy

    I like this. Just wondering about the 4th line.

    Maybe it's woodlice?

    • 7 years ago

      by Everlasting

      I think is cockroaches. They predate dinasours. And even though there's the possibility of them not surviving a nuclear event, they still resist radiation (I believe) ten times higher than men. They eat anything even dead meat. Those roaches. How I admire them yet dislike them. So is my ignorance.

  • 7 years ago

    by Golden AnGel Rhapsodist

    Hi,

    even I'm so afraid of roaches I manage to finish this piece hahahha, and I really like the thought that even you want to remove something or someone in your mind they still haunt us like a roaches even how hard we hit them to die you'll be surprised they still running. ..nice comparison with the cockroaches. ..

    :)) well done

    Gel

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