Happy Angst Poems

What a blessing it is to be alive
Driven insane until tortured further and I felt my sins so impure
But, I told them I will surely...

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Driven insane by sorrow, there’s no tomorrow to cure it…
Honestly, I’m in vain and so guilty…feeling way less than legit…
I’m holding you close in my...

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No one is willing to answer my phone calls unfortunately
Nobody cares to save me or love me deliberately
I’m sorry, this is how I tremendously feel
But,...

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("Mrs. It Dances Through It", 2014, original pen and ink)

Turning Point - Coming of Age - Acceptance at Last

Finally at age 65 I reach a...

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Forever wondering when I won’t be left behind and upset
Pondering if you’ll ever save me from burying me alive
Wandering in the woods of my spiralling...

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Why?

No one can explain
Why there is so much pain
Why will it not work
When will it ever come

Needle after needle
Month after month
It’s all the same
Just more...

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Marooned on the island of loneliness
Shadows of delusion confront me
In a stormy sea, I got shipwrecked
And the sea has robbed everything from me
What unanticipated change...

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My mind is bewildered with strife
All my life, it cuts me like a knife
I'm sorry that I've given in to grief
These desires within never gave...

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Insomnia welcomed courtesy high test coffee

consumed later at night than usual
finds me bright eyed and bushy tailed
amply lively to learn 
about an American radio 
and...

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The pages written in my book
Are pages made of second looks
They tell the days of happy sad
And sometimes sprinkle crazy mad

The game is played and...

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“ It ain’t easy being green.”
Kermit The Frog

It ain’t Easy Being Yellow

I push through concrete 
You can’t keep a good dandelion down
Don’t confuse me with...

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There was a lady in her late thirties

She loved juicy gossip and kitty parties

Kids were two, an older boy and a younger girl

Naughty devils but...

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Happy to be here day by day
Wanting to be remembered so I can stay
Looking for answers to no avail
Seeking the truth like a starving whale
Feeling...

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Birthday feelings
Another year is back no longer can leapfrog this day
Where my body squeals on me from time to time
Melanin, flawless, caramel skin transparent
for you...

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Saw you cry cry cry and pout
No doubt...I don't care anymore
What are you crying about?
Can't you see I'm jaded to the core?

I hear people preaching...

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