Best Poems Written by Carrigan Collins

A Repeated Past

Seeing yesterday's mistakes repeat themselves

Looking for hope like looking for elves

Lessons learned reversing like a mirror

Judging without considering the interior

Basic teachings lost like a dream that was nothing but a blur

Greed and false promises continuing to lure

Almost like the world has dyslexia

Arguing over who is right from the left

Looking at our faults like a thousand pound heft

People addicted to love and attention

But when abandoned go looking for redemption.

Forgetting origins like they had amnesia,

Using money as a light anesthesia.

Generations repeating like reruns of episodes,

 Old mistakes reworded and put into different codes.

People denying what they can’t understand,

Taking chances like stepping onto new land.

Swarming the same delusional dream like a fly,

Pulling the trigger over a senseless lie.

For every different person, a different personality to wear,

Leaning on friends that will never care,

Then run crying when our hands are bare

Begging for forgiveness like begging for air,

Because this world will never go anywhere

Chasing after the same dollar that wasn’t there.

Copyright © Carrigan Collins | Year Posted 2015