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Best Backs To The Wall Poems


Backs Against the Wall
by Mark Miller © 03/19/2014
Waiting beside the seaside absent who never arrives after graven payment-
Standing by Stan's shadow of ascent looks for loners promise repents,
Sullen watch golden sold feelings lost upon darken silhouette in trusted innocence
Filling pockets of soothing felon who battles lonesome fear
Shadows sun...

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Categories: backs to the wall, abuse, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
My Backs Against the Wall
The uncertainty of my future and the torture of my past 
has shrewn my confidence asunder and shakin up my cast
a closed door in every direction my walls are closing in so fast
I feel the longer this continues the shorter I will last

Lately failure descends...

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Categories: backs to the wall, angst, introspection, sad, me,
Form: Couplet

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