Long Brightest of days Poems

REGRET:  -verb; to feel sorrow or remorse for an act, fault or disappointment

How do you save someone from taking their own life? She gave up without a thought of the pain I would experience....

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Out I go on the porch, thinking of you as a bird approaches me
You whisper in my ears and I am full of cheers…
Mirror my reflection and don’t leave me with your depression…
Lean on me,...

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If darkness and brilliance could change their ways
You'd be my shadow on the brightest of days.
My shelter from sun, while they drink lemonade
With creamy, pale skin as I cool in your shade.

If bitter and sweetness...

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In the brightest of days gloom consumed it. In the darkest of places, We no longer can run from it. Thinking that bottling it up was going to fix it. Putting it off was just...

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I just want to be numb.
Without passion,
or perversion.
Where I can smile vacantly,
and walk unwaveringly.
Where everything that was means nothing,
the battles of today cease,
and the worries of tomorrow have no control over me.

I just wish to...

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I have always been with you my love
In the darkest of nights and brightest of days
I have followed your soul to the very corners of the earth
I have felt your pain, heard your cries
And there...

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Author Dana Redricks
May 6, 2023

In the darkest of nights and the brightest of days, God promised to guide me in all of my ways. No matter the path that I may choose,
His love and protection...

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I saw a place in dreams, when life ends I would go.
a place where the reaping, comes from that which you sow.
The people were shining, with a gleam in their eye,
when I asked where I...

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I breath, I break, I go to sleep, I wake./My love is never ending but it tortures me to the 
point where my life is pending/ on the brink of complete happiness or just a...

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Echos

The voices of the past which echo in 
our heads, the ones that we keep 
deeply and secretly locked up in our 
subconscious souls. The ones that creep 
back out on gentle winds, on the...

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How do I love you? In so many ways
From the darkest of nights, to the brightest of days

In my loneliness hour, when no one is there
I fee the embrace that you so freely share

I feel...

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Lead me to a place where broken hearts are sewed,
Woven into an arras of growth and transformation, 
Across the bridge of time, 
Into to the brightest of days
Where melodies of contentment and delight chime
In harmony...

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Shadows



Shadows of moments
lived together
still afresh as dew drops,

Memories beyond time
sway in my mind
the shadows engraved,

The brightest of days
come and go
leaving them untouched,

I chase these shadows afar
running behind
gasping for breath always,

Watch them distancing
furthermore
as I am about...

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Equanimity – mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation


Euphoric moments
Balanced by the darkest of nights
One without the other
Loses perspective – like a ship without a beacon of light

Our lives can...

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Measure me son, for the man I was.
My sunset has come, and the man to dust.
If I had the time, I would light your day.
But even the brightest can fade away.

I leave you now, the...

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There is too much ancestry coursing my soul 
  to do me any real good

To live in a cave on a deserted island
  my destiny best understood

Success once achieved is cast far aside
...

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