Angst Ballad Poems

You Promised Me 
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I could have been their time,
It should have been their time,
With the kids now in their own time,
And retirement giving them the time,
To take their...

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should I fear my autumn
when Juniper wilts with me
and the sagging stars above
edge closer to the sea

should I fear my autumn
with winter still to show
my...

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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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Black me, colored world 
I crave your affection 
I am tough as rocks 
I still have a soft anterior
I want to cry
Fill a pond with...

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Tommy Lee was a Black man,
Born a poor man's son.
From the early days of his wayward youth
Tommy Lee was on the run.

He never had no...

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I believed you
That you cared
But you didn't
All you wanted was my love

I was a fool
I believed your lies
That you could ever love me
And the worst...

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The chorus blazes, 
chaperoning the gloomy pollution of mortal extinction. 
Bridges of anxiety rupture harmony, 
as havoc reigns from the skies of Ukraine. 
The breaks...

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I was walking a lonely road ,
my shadow as my only companion .
Suddenly , I heard a crack quite brute
the sound of probably a rusty...

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The world hurtles on unmindful
Leaving behind those who cannot keep pace
So many are under constant grind
To earn a square meal a day

On deserted streets many...

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Little lives plead,
Don’t make them bleed.

God-given gifts, they must be spared, 
Let us say no to abortion,
It’s a sin worse than extortion,
Snuffing innocent lives uncared;...

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Beneath my mind the demon danced,
  He reaps away my brain
With awkward sounds and sights untrue
   Not of the homely grain.

It's party...

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DAVID’S LAMENT (FOR ABSALOM)
			
What voice is that beneath the wild thorn trees,
Where birds go up and broken branches swing?
Ah, words out of a dead mouth...

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It so happened some years ago,
a story of the past it seems,
the room was wide and huge,
absorbing the echoes of her screams.

Her tale is told...

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Glued to calendar-marked days --- drawing nigh
alerted that without wings, time does fly…
I just exclaimed an ambivalent sigh
since this year is about to say good...

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