Fear Chasm Poems

Last night my thoughts dwelled in melancholy
recalling what we once shared had been good
before we made the mistakes of mutual folly
and on opposite sides of...

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I cannot count the physical bridges that I have crossed,
but there are two that I have crossed repeatedly over a
period of 40 years. My two...

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Contrary to what a dream might wish for,
There are those, sometimes, who fail to see across
That unbridgeable chasm, the one that leaves the heart
Yearning for...

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Dear God, help me in this chasm of fear
It's so dark and shadows lurk around me
The waters are so murky and unclear
The path before me,...

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You won’t even try to meet me halfway,
your vertigo fears 
are faintly voiced from a far distance

You’re scared to go across
the abyss of a possible...

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What you see
on the outside
is not what I am
on the inside.
Crippled by
my own fears.
Starting to dread
the oncoming years.
People look and think
that I have it all.
They...

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Tension
Frustration
Impossible
	demands
		unmet
Self flowing
into Nothing
leaves uncertain emptiness

Glass canyon
abandoned lifeboat
infinite despairin
no one cares:
paradise forever lost
at the edge of possibility
on the desert's farther edge
at the lifeboat's moorage
on the canyon's...

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I see inside, look to my soul
And know that I am still unwhole
I see inside, perceive my mind
And, lost, I know I'll never find

The truth...

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