Best Survivor Poems

Lone survivor
July 3, 2015
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I sit alone in my basement all hunkered down
My faithful dog with me
Because tonight is the night of firecrackers 
And firework, yep it’s the 4th of July.
*
My dog gets to wear a rap around cover
I get just my basement,
You see I am...

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Lying in my bed one night ,
I hear the quiet,
It does not feel at all right,
Something is about to take place,
In this disunited human race,
And then, the world that I knew,
Its comforts, my family, my dog,
My little pet frog,
My bicycle that took me
To school, No...

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Those who have hurt me the most
Brought me the deepest
Most affecting and lingering pain
Have all died away
As their own pain is buried 
So does mine fade.

That must make me
Their survivor.



17.08.29

Composed for Julie Rodeheaver's
"I'm A Survivor" Contest...

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Our family heartbroken when my father died
Looking back don't know how we survived
Must be an invisible hand that was our guide

Staying with strangers I swallowed my pride
Living at mercy of those who could provide 
Looking back don't know how we survived

Dreaming of college quite starry...

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You are one cruel hearted man.
One too many for my life span.

You have inflicted one too many abuses.
I am so tired of your lousy excuses!

Whether it be with your mouth, fist, or actions
You found ways to punish for imagined infractions.

It sickens me that I did...

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Survivor guilt, is it in the head?
It feels like its you that should be dead 
Alas my friend this isn't so
This feeling needs to get up and go

For it will bring you to your knees
No one can hear you shout please
Go away survivor guilt 
The ...

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Born to early
Left with a permanent reminder
Difficult arrival into this world
Such a tiny tiny survivor!

You’re life has its battles
Though you never complain
Even when life is cruelly unfair
Treating you “not the same”

Tiny tiny survivor
You fought so hard to stay
The sweetest miracle
Perfect in every way!...

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SURVIVOR 

She was smaller, slower, weaker
easily unseen
as she slipped away
seeking the warmth
of an exhaust grate.
Innocence lost
she slept
fitfully muttering
lost words
                 ……………………………….forbidden words.

She awoke
to an empty station
a trembling silence
muting the sound
of...

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As the sun sets on the lone elm tree.
Its' silhouette looks upon me.
I believe it’s speaking quietly,
Whispering with its gentle breeze.
Telling me, to approach and see,
How my extremities are similar to thee.
Caught in amazement, yet stuck in beauty.
In the presence of an 80 year old...

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(No laugh without tears
No glad without sad
No calm without fears
No good without bad)

*Knocked flat on my rear
And found understandin’
Oh yeah, I'm still here
Oh YEAH, I'm still standin’

(No well without ill
No near without far
No warm without chill
No heal without scar)

*God's will to survive
His hard-knockin’ school
Cruel world,...

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She was a drug addict, 
Had many flings with men, 
And as they do predict, 
She fell time and again;

She found herself with child, 
Was advised against drugs, 
Who cared? She got more wild, 
When stopped, she simply shrugs;

(Think of the little life
Growing within her...

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Is it easy to look back on the trauma of past
It’s like taking the knife out my back
It cuts going both ways creating path
Oh but we cried oh but we laughed
Little girls playing with dolls in the basement
Unaware of monsters and dangers that cement
The innocence...

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Imagine one day everything's fine
Next day you're in a psychward with a completely differen't mind
No one looks at you the same, not worth anyones time

Imagine going from happy and full of life
To trying not to end it, every single night.

Imagine what it's like to forget...

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I read, like an open book
All others can see the words written on my pages.
I contain tales, read as secretive,
A hushed whisper that only a handful have seen.

But how many times has this book been checked out?
A sea of white masks, deadpan through the years
So...

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After about three days
I realized that I felt better
And I was terrified

Because that just means
That I have successfully turned up the volume
In my headphones so loud 
That I drowned out every last thought I had

When I realize that it is a good day
I wonder how...

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