Who is John Galt?
September 10, 2012 § 30 Comments
you left
I sat by your side
i reached over
there was no body to find
I saw your eyes
i looked deep inside
they were empty
you were not inside
I heard your voice
but it spoke in a foreign tongue
I felt your skin
but it was damp and cold
it made a shiver run through my spine
then I felt your heartbeat
…it beat just like before
I swore i wouldn’t give up, not like before…
but your lips kept moving
and your body kept pretending
like you were someone
that I had never known
I was scared
but i couldn’t leave
i thought he must be there— somewhere underneath
but you kept on going
bragging of all your empty victories
the stupid girls that love you
knowing i’m sitting there adoring you…
I realized my love had gone away
i bit my lip so you couldn’t hear my scream
and i hate you more then anything
because you took my love
and let him walk away
and i hate you because i cannot see
the man i loved more than anything
i cried to sleep for the very last time
because the man that i loved is gone.
when you were here
i sat by your side
i reached over i took your hand in mine
because you were my best friend
you were the only one
i would ever love
and i smiled
because I knew you were mine.
Superb
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thank you
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More than welcome, the Rand references get me every time, and you sneak a bunch in sometimes.
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hahaha that i do aye?
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Aye, you do, it’s one of the things (but not the only thing) I love about your writing.
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John Galt was a fictional character from Atlas Shrugged I believe. Who are YOU is a more interesting question 😉
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just a girl with a bit of a break in her heart, and a fierce appetite for life [from the USA] 🙂
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Makes me curious .. what experiences you may have had with Rand.
Nice poem, picture perfect.
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I’m obsessed with the Fountain head and Atlas Shrugged 🙂 thanks
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Easy to understand the obsession. Have you watched the current movie part 1? How about “We the Living” done in Italy just prior to WWII? No surprise it was banned shortly after Mussolini came to power.
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Yes I didn’t love the movie…but i can’t wait to see the sequel :). I never saw ‘we the living’
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Wow…painfully beautiful. Tell me about the title? I don’t know enough about the character reference. (Google will be my friend again!). 🙂
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‘Who is John Galt?’ is a reference from Ayn Rands book Atlas Shrugged. The reference means something special to me.
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Beautiful and sad.
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I felt sorry for John Galt – trapped inside the most boring, interminable book ever written.
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Ayn Rand would have thought the poem beautiful, would have loved the train and John Galt references, but I wonder if she would have been angered by the girl and your portrait of John Galt, as all her women heroes were too strong to bend for love and her men heroes were egoists NOT egotists.
All that said, I very much enjoyed your poem.
Clayton Bye
author/poet
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It’s not really my portrait of John Galt…. 🙂 ‘Who is John Galt?’ means something a little different to me. Yes you are right about that. And thank you much much Clayton! ;)xx
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Beautiful writing as usual. I just wanted to let you know that I love your blog so much that I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award! You can check out my post about it here: http://www.lifewithmyblessings.wordpress.com/im-a-vba-winner/
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To call this an ‘amazing piece of poetic brilliance’ would be a severe understatement.
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Just finished Atlas Shrugged for a class I have this semester, and really liked the prose. I love that one can enjoy this poem even more having recently read the text.
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it’s my favorite book
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lovely and sad at the same time.
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thanks darling
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You carry a true writer’s soul, that I can tell by reading just a sentence or two. Nice work…
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Awe thank you very much
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Very poignant and beautiful.
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I’m glad to have followed links to your page. After reading a few I stumbled upon this work and wanted to say Thank You. Atlas Shrugged has been a favorite of mine for many years and I’ve read it often. I’ll follow and look for more gems on your pages.
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My ABSOLUTE FAVORITE book, next is The Fountainhead. Both changed my world completely. YAY, so glad to have a fellow ‘Who is John Galt’ friend 😉
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My pleasure, I started Fountainhead years ago and never really gave it a chance…. maybe I need to revisit it. Even though I don’t post much, just wanted you to know that I come and enjoy your posts. Keep up the good work….
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YOU MUST read The Fountainhead, it’s brilliant. Awe thank you so much. That makes my day! 😀
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