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Why, I survived
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder why, I do these things, and let you get by. Under my skin, buried within, where the torment will never end. I gave you my heart and your tore it asunder, making sure I knew I’d made a grievous blunder. Leaving me broken, I could not help but wonder. Continue reading
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Meditate
“Only a joyful, open mind and attitude, always sustaining you.” – Atisha I’ve settled down to a still place, trying to make my heart not race. I need some peace and quiet here. Cities hustle I cannot hear. I close my eyes and take a breath. What I find makes me perplexed. Calmness spreads as Continue reading
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Playing games
I know more than I see. I see more than I show. Don’t lie to me, for I will always know. You set yourself up for failure, when you try to hide the truth. For the secrets in your eyes, I can read like a book. All I have to do, is take a little Continue reading
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In Others Eyes
A man is happy if he finds praise and friendship within himself. You can never be sure of where you stand in someone else’s heart. -Havamal stanza 8 Where do we stand, in other peoples eyes? Is it a good place, or shall we be surprised. Are we the sunshine in the darkest night? Or Continue reading
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Alone
I lay here in the dark. Loneliness deep within my heart. I’ve tried to make it through the day. I’ve tried to laugh and play. No matter what I do, I have to be just fine. I cannot make a sound, I cannot speak my mind. I have bills to pay. Things to do. Responsibilities Continue reading
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Lost freedom
On this day we joyfully play. We laugh, we sing, we shout hooray. But the way we do thing in this time, the ones who gave us freedom, would see a crime. They fought against unfair the unfair things. Said we need not listen to kings. They bravely sought to fly with eagles wings. No Continue reading
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Tired
I’m tired of the daily struggle the way, the way life tries to burst my bubble. That I feel all these things, my trying torment brings. Of promises made yet broken quickly, of the truths I’ve shared, and how little others cared. As they spread my secrets far and wide. Leaving nowhere for me to Continue reading
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Night Terror
In the night the terror comes, eater of dreams, bringer of pain. What will happen when it comes for you? Will it make your nightmares true? One cannot sleep, cannot dream. Not until this beast takes its leave. All you feel all through the night, is mighty terror, unending plight. All-consuming fright To stay awake Continue reading
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Free
Like the birds up in the air, I wish to live without a care. Like the clouds in the sky, I want to fly so very high. Away from all the pain and woe, far above earth ill go. Touch stars up in the sky, for on the ground it’s far too much. Things are Continue reading
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Let Me Be
It does not matter what you call it my friend. It’s become a problem here in the end. Is supposed to be a place built on freedom of expression. Yet often we find ourselves under oppression. You push your beliefs at everyone else. Try to force them to your line of thinking, how is that Continue reading
About Me
A Simple man who dreams of being an Author one day. A lover of poems and stories of all types. A dreamer and a tale weaver in my spare time. What little I have as a father of three. Come sit by the fire, and let me spin my tales, let me speak my rhymes, and show you, a quite good time.
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