{"sf1_id":1198056,"sf2_id":"nGEEpB7e","title":"Vic-times...","author":"Jiblits","words":288,"posted_at":"2017-06-19T14:16:00.000Z","tags":["Poem","Short Story","slice of life"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1198056-vic-times","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/nGEEpB7e","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/aa/68/aa68dbe1-146b-4ac8-adb0-f1549f737241","description":"","content":"Victimes...\n\nSomewhat out of place, yet, making time to be the same\n\nOne can, as all should, make moments with reasons for remembering their name\n\nSlipping among the ground bare of meaning\n\nSome study, trying talents or practice, while others give into ease, \u0026 forget about dreaming\n\nMotions making mountains from ant hills all around\n\nThey sink into how they think, being the only way, forgetting they are still on common ground\n\nElevations from hallucinations is, for the majority, sadly enough for a lifetime...for most...\n\nThough, they aren't all trying to forget bad times, people, many fall short of good for worthwhile days, beyond becoming that mindless ghost...\n\nWith meaning only meant for a word or two at its end\n\nThey give in, losing because it's apparently too hard to win, losing more than a friend...\n\nOne life, one chance\n\nThey sit idly by, as the final songs play, never joining fates for life's ever-changing dance\n\n\"Oh well\" sadly gets easier to say, time \u0026 life wasted, is all I really see\n\nTrying my best, not to test the shells that walk, the ones I thought would be successful, never stopping in trying, as it's always been free\n\nLosing their sight along the way, they simply take life, never giving, day by day\n\nInstead, I bow my head, above another box \u0026 stone with a name I remember\u0026nbsp;\n\nWatching, only in thought, remembering a once bursting mentality with bright possibility, now, jus another cold ember\n\nFor them, I carry on, for what could of been\n\nIf \u0026 when, we meet again, I'll keep tryin, till then...\n\n---Thanks for reading---\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; ---Always---\n\n  \n  \n\n"}