Peter Dome Poet Verse

Once

Once

Once I lived and danced in the sun
But now I dance no more 
For the sun has abandoned me
My skies are black
And there’s no longer anything to dance for

My illnesses are my shackles
My feet are stuck firmly in the mud
I gave my overflowing love to everyone
As much as my tormented soul could
But I feel I have failed as a man
No one wants it It’s never good enough

Dejected and rejected
Abandoned and neglected
Naked and unprotected
I just exist
Never to feel a lovers loving touch
My heart is broken and hurts so much
Everyone wants to know me
But no one really wants me at all
OI look around and there’s no one there
To catch me when I fall

I never asked to be born
I guess I was cursed at birth
As nothing ever goes right
I wish I’d never wake up
And sleep and perish
In deaths eternal night

I was never weak
But too strong
I just pushed myself too far
My body couldn’t take it
For I did it for far too long

Crushed afraid to dream
The gold in my bewildered soul
Turns to dust
My resolve and forsaken years
Now resigned to my life s expanding scrap yard
And decay and rust

I climb a new mountain everyday
With too many obstetrical s in my way
Trying in desperation
To climb a slippery slope
With no one to give a helping hand
There’s little hope

Sleep be my only allie 
In a war I can never win
But when I awake on my bed of nails
It hits me hard where I am
The nightmare then begins

Soon to be just a forgot name on a tombstone
I live a legacy in my words
For those around the world
Who do and have read my words over the years
And in so I hope I have inspired and helped someone
Long after I’m gone
Through my words My voice and deepest thoughts
I may have perished
But my soul and heart will live on.


Peter Dome©2019.

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Caren Krutsinger May 19, 2019 at 6:02 PM Peter, you can dance in the sun today with this poem that dances beside you, around you and with you! I am dancing as I read her. She is going to out-dance all of us! Peter Dome May 19, 2019 at 6:04 PM Thank you Caren.Much appreciated want to dance?. Pete.