Long Grin and bear it Poems

My occupation is supplying individuals with the substance of their worst desire
Most dealers driving force is the desire to increase their wealth, monetary gain
My driving force the result of my own treacherous case of Heroin...

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Deep at heart Tim is a dreamer and longs for 'that' dream

And still and in certain arrest he is a child of gone times

His parents Hans and Ida had told him in misleading terms	

 ...

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God, I’m scared
Scared to be alone
I’ve lost so much
Lost my light
Now I’m alone in the dark
So alone.
My friends try to reach me 
 I’ve fallen too far,
Still trying to stand tall,
But I’m crippled, broken, and...

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I am more aware than the average person
that your business revolves around giving everybody bad credit
even if you can afford the 900 dollar phone bills
for not using your phone
they will get their outrageous monies owed
or...

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Throughout the years of bars and fences, several things kept me from falling
My Faith in God, My Mom, My Writing...and, that Freedom Was Always Calling
The nightmare started in "93", shipped off to do a second...

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I'm jabbed at my side with plummet and jab, and yet I must grin and bear it,
I'm abhorrent with scorn for those who must mourn, but then I indifferently swear 
it.
Pathos and play this is...

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The summer has long since faded
The sky seems eternally grey, 
A white carpet laid down on the landscape clearing the green grass away.
The house is chilly this morning, 
Out to the woodbox I go
When suddenly...

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Hidden Hurt

Awake in my bedroom,rigid with fear
The man i call Lover is coming so near
No sweet gentle touch is waiting for me
But the vile look of anger is all i can see.

What did i do...

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We all have so many decisions in this world we must make 
But none of them, could ever cause such eternal heartache
None of them will ever push your soul so far away
Then the day that...

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Today I have just heard I had lost my oldest Brother
I was told he had died in prison
To me he died more than a year ago 
He had caused me more grief than he would...

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Awake in my bedroom, rigid with fear
The man I call lover is coming so near
No sweet gentle touch is waiting for me
But the vile look of anger is all i can see.

What did I do...

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Steve McGarrett ate a carrot,
With a parrot as a pet,
When he stopped to catch a ferret,
At a local launderette.

Well, he had to grin and bear it,
When the ferret, as a foe,
Had the gall to greet...

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Where I come from
It’s dark and quiet
Eleven months of the year
Then one fine day
Everything changes

All of a sudden
It’s bright and snowing
And I come to life
After a long hibernation

I love to see my old friend
Elf sitting...

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It seems so quiet here since you went.
The dog's more settled, the cat's more content.
My friends seem to visit much more than before
and I can visit the pub without starting a war

Now the dust has...

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It wields misery like a knife. And there's no magic wand to be waved 
To make it fade into oblivion. It leaves me suddenly hankering 
For the halcyon days of summer. There isn't enough warmth...

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Walking through the ashes of a time once loved,  
New bleakness
Life passes strangely enough. 
See the weakness of a cold spine, twisted and curled. 
Daughter of the twister, empty vase, another storm in the...

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yes indeed life is not fair
why would the end be any different

we lose the people we love most
it breaks our heart and
shatters it in a million pieces
oh what a void it leaves
only the good die...

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CESSATION

That pain is like treading on bottle tops
Or stumbling into some hidden caltrops
Suddenly, as when some lightbulb pops
The welcome relief when it finally stops
Like making big gains on currency swaps
The blood pressure and heartrate drops
Yet...

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The Volunteer
                  by Bob Moore (c) 2019

A volunteer is worth, a thousand conscripts so they say
I would never...

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Opposites may hold attraction
But lack lasting satisfaction.
Frequently push comes to shove.
In comes hate and out goes love.

Animals in fights and fleeings
Still are mostly social beings.
In a pinch, at end of tether,
Birds of a feather flock...

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Please excuse my putrid frame 
Clutching my face as I collapse 
My eyes glaring red into my grasp

Silent violence 
Ever bleeding in a garden 
Like a burning violet 
Within myself I am hiding 

But nothing...

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This world is full of heartaches 
That chase you every day.
Some times you try your very best
But find it hard to pray. 



You try to grin and bear it
You hide it all inside,
Until it seems...

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Inside the liquid of the chalice, I see
a swirling liquid the color red be.

And as I hold it in my hand
there is an image grand.

It's of those moments in time
where my actions have not been...

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A life once lived holds no merit-
Behind the mask adorned in silence-
Able only to grin and bear it-
Daily growth and test of patience.

Woe to the different, the gentle spirit-
As a life once lived now holds...

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One hundred dollars 
come out of each check
just for screetching and stomping,
but, ah... what the heck.

My kids screetch the fiddle
(aka, violin)
and I pray the poor teacher
let's them come back again.

And they stomp and they stamp...

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