Farewell Identity Poems

Can we call it a day,
Inclined to tell me so,
Thinking I had a right to know.

Incoming train wreck on the night ahead,
Palmed one off to...

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I was once a good man, that was pure
But the man today I am not so sure
In the shadow of guilt, I now stand
Though I...

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Life is all about Transformations...
The one who was yesterday..
Is not the one  today..
The One who is here today..
Is not the one tomorrow..
Every human is...

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I’ve finally come home from my island 
I don’t remember life bein’ this hard 
I’m a castaway who never saw no ship 
I’m a prisoner...

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Monday, our hearts were hefty with dread. 
Hoping postman fetches bucks for bread. 
It will cape with the psyche's desires well. 
Under a grasp, swirling, we felt the...

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Dreading another Friday's arrival
Selfish pride begins to rear its not so pretty head
That fiercely familiar response engulfs me
Stirring pent-up emotions
Festering unhealed hurts
Reawakening forlorn feelings that...

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I.
GRAIL OF TIDES

from the brewing storm’s steeping chalice
the breath of death’s journey awakens in quiet tides 
beckoned by the stirring whisper of mortal winds
furrowed by...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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My Dream Home  
is full of people who chose to be born with their memories in tact 

my sanctuary sits on a pretty little...

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IDENTITY

I am a Captain,
on my ship called destiny;
on an ocean called life.

I have been a pirate,
(those that steal.) 
forgive my use of words;
taps from others’...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds...

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Deep in his heart had urgent need to go just one last time,
To place where he grew up; would childhood memories rebound?
Went with fear and...

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I am still here waiting
Waiting for something to happen
I am still here waiting
Waiting for you to come
Christmas has come and gone
And here I am still...

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No...

Denial.
I am not for, 
I am not against, 
I live...
setting on the fence. 

I don't want to be involved, 
I don't want to take a...

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I've been on a walkabout with death
He keeps trying for my last breath

But I will not go gently or quietly anywhere
Anywhere I want, most wouldn't...

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