This body is a prison,
From which I'll never leave
My flesh is iron bars
Made to confine me.
My soul is so much more
Than this body could ever hold
But yet Im trapped within
My freedom has been sold.
My warden is my pain
It tells me how I can live
And though I try to do my best
Ive little left to give
Im bound to this existence
Its the lot that I've been dealt
And I will bear this burden
Of my living, painful cell.
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Posted: Feb 2018
About this poem:
Living with RA
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On comes the night
The darkness moving in
This keeper of all my secrets
This creator of my sin.
On comes the night
Forever my silent mate
The darkest of dark embrace
My one and only fate
On comes the night
Respise from the glaring light
The veil that hides my faults
The world of black and white
On comes the night
And into its embrace I will go
For his is the only way
The only life I know
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Posted: Feb 2018
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Underneath
Under water
Under the silver veil
I am sheathed
I am altered
I lie unaware
Wrapped in tepid silence
Be still my beating heart
Here Im safe from violence
Safety in the dark
Saline tears a vast ocean cried
I release my final breath
Slowly as I close my eys
And sink into the depths
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Posted: Feb 2018
About this poem:
Whats to tell
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I thrash about in the salty black
Foaming as I toil and hurl myself
Against the razored rocks
Heaving a great sigh at the release
Only to draw back and again
Throw myself forward
Storms raging
Lightning rips across the sky
I am frenzied in my desire
To break myself against the stones
The unforgiving cliffs
That keep me from you.
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Posted: Feb 2018
About this poem:
That unrelenting urge to acquire a goal, like the sea crashing again and again.
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These wounds are deep inside me.
There is nothing you can see.
It's all internal bleeding,
That will be the death of me.
You've got my heart in wires
With barbs embedded deep.
A cut for everything you've said,
And one for every deed.
Yet the more I fight, the worse it gets,
My struggles are in vain.
You cannot see my suffering,
or feel this twisting pain.
Another strand, another barb
Another wound for me.
While you go on, unaware,
Living so blissfully.
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Posted: Feb 2018
About this poem:
Nothing worse than a toxic relationship.
Old wounds take so long to heal.
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On the news, just today,
A child with a gun.
Inside a school, killing all,
My God, another one!
Whats happened here? How can this be?
What have we become?
Why are our children lashing out?
With hate, at everyone?
Where are their parents now?
Why aren't they safe at home?
Why are they being raised by television and constantly left alone?
There's no respect, there is no love,
There are no consequences!
What will it take, how many to die,
Before you find your senses!?
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Posted: Feb 2018
About this poem:
Another school shooting here in the States.
It is both terrifying and heartbreaking.
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