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Traveled This World

Traveled this world
Walked its roads
Seen the best and worst of men
Seen them at rock bottom
Seen them high on top
I've seen the white crosses
Littering the land
Flowers draped across
I've watched the sun rise
From the fiery sands
I've seen it sink behind blueblack hills
I've had the wind beat against my back
I've had it strip tears from my face
I've heard it whistle in the dark
Where even my shadow had left me
I've looked into eyes hungry and cold
Eyes with pain, eyes of hate
And those eyes looked right back into mine
I've looked forward 
And I've looked back
might as well have looked in a mirror
I felt the touch of a woman
felt her hand on my face
I've felt her rip me apart
I've felt cold seep into my bones
Felt as it crawled into my brain
I've strode where bigger men feared
Held frozen by awe
I've been paralyzed by fear
Been warmed by love
And watched it seep down my cheeks
I've pulled myself out of bottomless pits
Only to fall right back in
I've looked to the future
I once courted hope
I've dreamed bigger then the world could contain
Dreamed my life right up to the end
I've woken up in the dark
To find out I was still alone
I've wanted to live my dreams 
And dream my life
Watched what I hold dear
Pour through my fingers
Filled an ocean full of tears
I've betrayed the true
Shamed myself
Only to do it again
Worn my heart on the outside
I've had it been inside out
I've had my innocence stolen from my youth
Hung out on a wire
Begged for things undeserved 
Deserved things never given
I've been kicked when im down
And done my fair share of kicking
I have scorned the words of great men
Only to be humbled by the voice of a child
I have cursed the God in heaven
And I have fallen to my knees in desperation 
I have felt the hand of death brush by so close
That the hairs on my neck withered and died
I have seen the waters kiss the land
And the land pierce the heavens
I've lived a third of my life
And wonder if it's not all

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Debbie Guzzi

Date: 2/12/2011 1:12:00 PM

New poet friend, a most interesting write, it feels unfinished at the same time it feels too long? I would write you in soup mail but you do not have it? There seem to be any number of places in the poem as it exsists "could" have ended, ended with a bit more closure than it now has. Perhaps 1 or 2 line breaks would help? Anyway, no need to do anything, just hoping to communicate with you? You can write back in my blogs or on my poems. Please do, Light & Love