My Poetry
Powerless

The forced facing of strength
Masks a debilitating weakness
Yearning for respect and friendship
Taking responsibility of the secrets

They know the weakness portrayed as
strength
They use it continuously
Relieving their overwhelming burdens on me
Sacrificing my own pillar to be one

Each time I stumble a little more
Some secrets rage and war against each other
Knowing the secrets once made me powerful
Then they started to gnaw at the edges

Cracks appear on the inner walls
First they are ignored
Next futile attempts to stop their encroachment
Watching them destroy the only sanctuary left

Gazing inside had once threatened to induce
nightmares
Now needing to understand, I long to see it
There's nothing left of me but a hollow parody
They rule now.




Recognition

What am I gravitating towards?
Do I become another carbon copy?
The struggle for distinguishment is an
everlasting war.

Seems the only recognition now is the birth
of a monster.
The monster becomes craven and greedy
We are the prey of these monsters
Yet we are them.

Thus the battle continues
Prisoners inside of what we fear
Scavenging for even a scrap of humanity
Trying to terminate the disease

Dirsuptiveness is the only key to recognition.
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Alabaster innocence crushed by iron fists
Broken words drip on to the floor with blood
A misguided word triggered it
The blame always belongs to you

Sweet little eyes ripped open by the scene
Another precious soul torn to pieces
Whimpers attract the ferocious gaze
Doom approaches another victim

Realization and the last remnants of life gather
Defense of her angel the last coherent thought
Screams cleave the blackness
One more desperate struggle has ceased.
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Isn't is wondrous the dreams people weave?
Those ideas born of intense desires
Can define our lives or take our souls

Many confidantes will scream at you
"There's no end in sight.
You'll never obtain that goal."

Those with enough fortitude
Will only hear a foreign language
The rest who understand the words
Will have a handful of wilted hopes

There will be a few to prop you up
Find them and accept their aid
Or your dreams will become inaccessible

Never Forgotten

Somewhere in stark memories
Histories murmur deepening cries
Of night half-remembered and distant

Youthful days aging into darkening shrouds
Somber songs rain like teardrops
Slowly the fog fades

Through hazy swirls I hear sweet laughter
We traveled the ghosts and found
Half-forgotten love in the dark moon.
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Home
Cleansing

Words have long since reduced to tears
Comforting those of younger years
Struggling to face the pain
Gazing at his body where it was lain.

My grandmother is prostrate over the casket of his
"Honey I can't believe I'm doing this"
There is my mom with her sodden tissue
She and my father fiercely weeping "We will miss you."

Far too soon, it's now my turn
Everything inside me has begun to burn
I can't even speak, seeing him in his eternal bed
I bent to place my goodbye kiss on his forehead.

Time flew forward to the graveside
I was screaming inside "Why the hell had he died?!"
Dad was holding my sister as tight as could be
Watching my brother shredded the little that was left in me.

I'm trying to release the sadness here
God how I miss you grandpa my dear.
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