Best Self Preservation Poems

I’ll stay away…
          from what brings pain
What makes tears fall
          like acid rain

I’ll stay away…
         from what is fake
What...

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I’ve completed another day.
What’s the rush in throwing yourself 
at another –
When the rooms are cold, 
and the lovers are gone
Smiling is hardly representing sanity.
Your picture hanging is messed – see there –
My smiling represents thought
If this goes anywhere – we’ll be trapped
You make me...

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Self preservation
I'll go on with my life
What you took from me
Just gave me insight.

I am stronger,smarter more confident too
What you took from me
Has made me brand new.

My eyes are open
My heart is safe
I am now in a whole new phase.

I choose to be happy
More cautious,it...

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Once a lover said to me “I’d like to pick your brain,”
“You’re a beauty darling, but I think you’re quite insane.”
I did not doubt a word he said so I opened up my mind
I think he got a little scared when he realized what he’d...

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Sometimes you have to think first of yourself
Before you consider another.
This lesson is learned just by living your life
And not taught by school or your mother.

It’s natural to sacrifice comfort or time
To help out a friend who is needy;
But saying “I can’t” when you really...

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Self-preservation laudable
What then about our soul
High time we ego disable
Bliss ensconced, feeling whole

Gods light within awaits 
Feel innocence gyrate
What for then, do we wait

No hesitation 
Self-preservation

04-September-2021
Quietus...

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It's harder at night 
In the dark all alone
Just the hum of the ceiling fan
Where my thoughts start to roam
I worry about you
Where you are how you've been
Are you healthy and happy?
Or in pain again
Are you eating ok? Are you sleeping?
Are you warm in your...

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