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Chained To This World, Chained To My Fate

Chained To This World, Chained To My Fate Chained to this world, chained to my Fate. I want love, sadly feel it is too late. I see beauty of Nature's speckled fawn Yet feel not glory of soft-rising dawn Life is a battle, never been my friend In all my nightmarish dreams, I beg its end Once was a dream-kiss but that is over The bees all died in the poison clover Now wicked world lands heartache at my feet In this life, one wins only if they cheat I remember that day, that horrid date When love left me, left me to my Fate! Chained to this world, chained to my Fate. I want love, sadly feel it is too late. Robert J. Lindley, 6-17-2021 Revised from the original, that was composed back in 1976.

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Paula Goldsmith

Date: 6/24/2021 12:53:00 PM

A wonderful story/write. Life has both good and bad, that is where faith comes in. It is good to see you writing more. I guess things have worked out for you. May you the blessed as you write away.......................

Robert Lindley
Date: 6/24/2021 1:52:00 PM

Thank you my friend. Faith always awards blessings in precise measures that are by divine decrees warranted, imho. Life has yielded the good and the bad - currently faith shows me that the majority past bad was due to my own making. God bless...

James Marshall Goff

Date: 6/17/2021 1:14:00 PM

A beautiful forlorn lament, Robert, nice work!

Robert Lindley
Date: 6/17/2021 4:21:00 PM

Thank you my friend. 1976 was a terrible year for me. My baby brother died at age 14, I lost my new girlfriend and a couple months later I had a bad motorcycle wreck. Yet the 22 year old me survived and faced this dark world with the deep-born bravado from my bloodline., God bless...

Rama Balasubramanian

Date: 6/17/2021 3:56:00 AM

An deeply emotive write on lost love. I could feel the emotions portrayed in this poem. Not easy to live with lost love. Wonderful poem friend.

Robert Lindley
Date: 6/17/2021 4:26:00 AM

With age comes wisdom and quite often a rather large bevy of hard knocks and bruises! There is truth in the old saying, " whatever don't kill you, will make you stronger." This old dark world is not a tender or forgiving place.

Robert Lindley
Date: 6/17/2021 4:23:00 AM

Thank you my friend. In youth one must face whatever this dark world hits them with. Such is a learning curve that more often than not ends up benefitting the victim later on in life. At least that is how I now see it-- after having survived it.. God bless...