Best Markings Poems

Isolating myself.
I open up.
Start climbing off the bottom.
Without a dollar in my pocket.

Losing track of myself.
Down on my luck.
All my thoughts are racing away.
How could I be stuck?

I felt like I was making progress,
Till I looked up.
I was right back where it all started from.
Some...

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Markings

Markings on the body
Markings on the mind
Markings on the heart
Markings on the soul

It matters not where the markings are
or come from
They forever stay

The more forcefully they arrive
the deeper they go
The lines sometimes get blurred
and the meanings lose their potentcy
But there is no hiding the truth
or...

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Markings

Mark my body with scars and bruises
Mark my words with tired excuses 
Mark my lesson with teaching that confuses
Mark the walls with names of duties
Mark the people with rules of judges
Mark the thoughts with questions of ages
Mark the sentence with words on ancient pages
Mark the...

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Stripes on a zebra
The pattern of a leopard’s spots
These are things I may want to change
But know that I cannot

Your stripes are your selfishness
Your spots are your cheating ways
These are the markings that make you you
And are here, I’m afraid, to stay

The sun always rises...

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