Dark Esteem Poems

I sit down in my seat and look around
How can everyone seem so perfect…so unlike me?
In the corner of my eye, I see something black...

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Superhero strobe lighthouse helm hexagonal 
        Sixty degree angle glass captain bridge
      ...

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Eclipse               


without sun
I am etiolated,
enfeebled, bereft

my backbone heavy
and limp,
muscles stale and...

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Seems like cozy words won't make a fire when it's winter
Neither will my hopes and dreams, though people say I'm a winner
The only one who...

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chrysalis
by michael r. burch

these are the days of doom
u seldom leave ur room
u live in perpetual gloom

yet also the days of hope
how to cope?
u pray...

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Poem Ego
Ego leads us in the right direction
It is a means of satisfaction
It is a crown that never lets us down
It soothes the heart and...

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When  we have strangled virtue at her birth
And evil thoughts are all that we can find
We cannot take a draught of cheerful mirth;
Escape from...

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Look away.
Turn your head.
Don’t look at me,
     For I’m not worth looking at.
Don’t put me in your pity.
Don’t feel sorry for...

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