Best Hopepain Poems


Don'T Stop Fighting

The Haunting thoughts of the Darkness I once knew won’t stop flashing across my memory.
 It took the ones close to my heart, failing with only a few.
 The ones that did fall were killed in cold blooded Murder, no warning, no chance to say good-
bye.
 After watching these horrors, feeling the pain I’ve felt, it then tried to take me.
 But I wouldn’t let it.
 I have too much to live for and have yet to begin my Life.
 All of the Pain and sorrow I’ve seen and felt… 
It’s too much to have lived through to give up my life that easily.
 I have to be strong for the ones who are still here and Keep Fighting for the ones who cannot.
 Sometimes it is inevitable.
 There is no veering off the path life has dealt you, but there is always HOPE. 
Though each day I will Remember what I and many others have lived through, I will also hold in 
my memory the ones I’ve lost, the ones many others have lost, and the ones still here fighting 
this battle each day.
 I am just recovering from the War that raged in my body, my Scars penetrating deeper that the 
surface can show.
 To the families and friends who have fought, won, lost, and watched loved ones fight, we are 
not in this fight Alone.
 Someday, somehow, I will help find a Cure, be it by charity, research, or word of mouth. 
One day we will beat CANCER.
But don’t stop fighting, you can never stop fighting.

Jar

I stand on a mountain top 
I watch the world from afar
I see the pain in you rising
Smothering a once bright star
I wish I could harness your tears
I would put them in a glass jar
The pain would be trapped in this jar forever
It would never get free to find you where you are
Then you would be able to find your happiness and let love flow in
Just keep your heart ajar
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Sunset

My pain still burns on in my chest
And I still feel it in the night
But now it's all coming to rest
And these memories are not such a blight
I feel the things they say I should feel
And I still think sometimes of you
But now It's easier to bring it to heel
And now my thoughts less often brew
I know it will eventually all be gone
And I thank God that it doesn't well up so much
These feelings I held for so long
Are pushed down now at my slightest touch
I can now more easily forget
And turn my thoughts away a while
Now this pain is like a sunset
And slowly I raise my head and smile


To Write Love On Her Arms

Long sleeve shirts everyday at school
With no friends she meets
Home she goes when it lets out
No conversations in the streets

No phone calls from girlfriends
No boys to think about
Nothing to distract her
From what she thinks about

The red that runs down her wrist
The tears that run from her eyes
The screams she yells in her head
The longing that she can't deny

The feelings of loneliness
And the pain she's had for so long
Leaves her longing to end it
Thinking that no one cares at all

The beautiful tragic markings
She leaves up and down her arms
She never let anyone see
How she causes herself harm

But someone cares enough to look
Someone cares enough to see
The pain she going through
And the beauty that she could be

With the love and help of another
She'll no longer cause herself harm
She has someone to hold her tight
Someone to write love on her arms

The Edge of Night

As I sit here and view the coming of the edge of night
Colors explode across the sky and fill me with delight
All of the problems I had vanish and are nowhere in sight
Which seems like a blessing, I’m not prepared for the fight?

The darkness creeps up without making a sound
If no one is paying attention does it still come around?
It starts out slowly but rapidly gains ground
I open my eyes to see what I have found.

The pain has receded much like the tides
Below the surface the answers shall hide
Although it has been as pretty rough ride
Peace does grow as the pain subsides.

The stars make an appearance they are much like my hope
It can’t  all be washed away with just a little soap
They sparkle like diamonds the true treasure they are
Lighting the way to places that once were once too far.

The moon comes up next with light of its own
A beacon in the darkness to find my way home
The moon and the stars bring forth light to the dark
They appear in the sky much like a punctuation mark.

It’s not a period because I can’t see the end
Maybe my hope lies around the next bend
It more like an exclamation it seems to excite
Where once had been darkness, let there be light.

Who Do You Think You Are

Who do you think you are? 
Are you Superman? 
Faster than a speeding bullet 
Can’t think of anything 
That can slow you down 
Not willing to let others in
From the pain you have had before 
Talk too few 
Hide from most 
Who do you think you are? 
A shadow in the night 
Easily looked over 
Not wanting to shed 
Even a single tear 
Having a wall built up 
Wanting someone to tear it down 
But not saying how 
Who do you think you are? 
Are you superman? 
Because if so 
I'm your kryptonite
I'll be there for you 
Let me in 
Someone who loves you 
When the pain comes back again 
To hold you when you cry 
Tear down your wall
So baby you know ill be there 
To catch you when you fall


Cold Harsh Wind

“I feel the cold harsh wind against my skin as I look into the abandoned darkness of my
past. The memories have become more of a haze, for I have tried to forget them. As I deal
with the pain and heartache of my troubled past I begin to try and imagine what I might
have to help me keep going. I look at the tiny figure of a body that I have been rocking
oh so gently in my arms, I realize my son has given me if nothing else, an extraordinary
gift of responsibility that requires so much love, attention, and hard work. As I hold him
in my arms I feel the pain begin to disappear. I begin learned that pain of the past can
do nothing but tarnish the wonders and miracles of today and tomorrow.”

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