Morbid Irony

While I lay here
Staring my fate
Square into obscurity
Left with nothing but promises
Of forgotten grandeur

Leaving behind epic depths
Of visions
Illusions
Confusions, beyond credibility

A string of events one could not forsee
Refusal to uphold unrealistic
And idealistic states of abstraction

Thus bringing us lucid and coherent
Understandings of the truth
Perhaps revealing consummate contentment
No more resentments
Of past discontentment
These vast extents of torments
Preventing  one from ascending
Into unending bliss
Where the unmerciful bind you
Overextending
Subdued
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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January 18, 2012 at 3:32 AM
Congratulations on your win :)
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January 17, 2012 at 7:26 AM
Congratulations on your featured poem this week Richard. Love, Carol P.S. you can find the featured poets down the center of PoetrySoup Homepage. There are 4 pages of them this week and you can click and read and leave comments to the other poets. The poems are changed around each day giving your poem more exposure. The poems are up from Sunday to the next Sunday
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January 16, 2012 at 1:48 PM
Richard...CONGRATULATIONS on the week`s winner !! - :) oxox love Anne-Lise
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