Games We Play

You can't put a finger on what you have to believe
When her hand is in your lap
it brings up the games we play,
as i walk out the door to leave
in my hand my worn and battered cap
it is all i can do, that little prayer.

i carry my battered heart in a broken body
eyes that have...

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Dispirit

Everyone says you are quite amazing
Now that you clean as a king,  
I stare back at them with undisguised
Obnoxiousness
The intensity of fear grips my likeliness
Of remaining here forever,
Oblivion and the state of rest
Running together, forward providence
The peacefulness of...

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Can you not hear my soul?

How difficult to explain
the emotion of losing what should be yours,
the torment and the flood of feelings
that flow so freely through your body,
the anger and the desire
the rage and the passion
thick as mire
dark as night,
The moon shining down
and the stars so bright.
Where are...

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Deep, dark blue sea

I drowned in the deep, dark blue sea;
Where the sharks swim in a frenzied motion
And the currents hammer my lifeless body;
As the life ebbs out of my soul and
My blood turns cold,
My heart cracks like a broken glass.

Up above the frisky waves bounce gently under
The burning sun,
...

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Would that you, would that I

That you had come along

Thirty years later

Or that my timing

Was better.

 

That I was your Chapter Three

Love affair

Not your quiet epilogue.

 

That I had seen

The things you saw

And shared more of you

Than I share now.

 

That I could somehow

Be there

And not these years

Behind.

 

I will never...

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