Poet In Exile

We live are words and if not were just typing.
Ive come to a crossroads understanding little or nothing of the game 
but knowing my place has been taken.

No longer in demand I sit with the other burnt out writers looking
back with grand dellusion and litlle hope for my return.
The dark waters of a uncertain tommorow overshadow the past glory
and future failures of my existance.

The last round poured the new gaurd will be here tommorow.
And as you pass the ones toblind to see as you've become to
jaded to feel you realize.

To live the words failure is a must for no agnst is true without 
a glimmer of hope. 
I stay ahead of the verse like a pool waiting for the tide.

Now in a place once called home I find strangers in old faces
shadows cast dark figures in alleys all lost for the better day.

But im no judge just a exile forced to carve a nitch 
outta his  same old space.
To tired to care yet still to ego ridden to leave.

Im a exile to friends who live next door.
They hammer the walls  laughter takes there nights.
Im locked in  only with memories to recall.

The smoke trails across the empty room of my mind.
Like some old stories ghost I merely haunt this worn down shell.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Kopp Avatar
January 26, 2011 at 7:39 AM
ouch
Culverhouse Avatar
October 31, 2010 at 5:46 PM
John, enjoyed reading your work today... long time no see! Hope you are well and will visit more often!
Bloomsfield Avatar
October 31, 2010 at 12:37 AM
Hope you don't find strangers here on p.s,your chair was still empty,and not been taken.Hope you find friends in our faces and i do wish to see you posting more often at your home p.s! By the way John.P,You re in my poem to all the soupers. .great poem from a sad thought ,it seems. .Celene
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