Long Lose the battle Poems

A Glimpse In A Life
By James Hackett Jr


Grasping Sand
The harder i try to reach you, the gap seems to expand.
Its like grasping at sand the harder I squeeze the more slips through.
I do not know...

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Obey The Cross That Jesus Suffered Although It Will Cost All You Claim As Yours !
Each of us must learn to take a part in the dance be part of Christ's vine by his design
Although...

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Big boys get brainwashed by television 
It's my mission to fulfill you with vision 
America is going under these days.
All the countries around us aren't getting their ways.
Who's to blame?
Shame just came...
Out of nowhere for...

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Drifting off into a black space
To a land not far away
I see visions of another world
Where only kings and queens can play

There are jesters in the courtyard
There are dragons all around
I can feel my astral...

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I understand your fear, your need to run away,
I feel your tears, I cry them too, 
and wish I could disappear, forever. 
My cousin, slept with and dated the man 
who raped and mollested me...

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Dedicated to my Dad who lost his short battle w/ Colon Cancer on June 18,2013

I hate you Cancer
Your vile evil and cruel
You don't care who you hurt
I'll never forget that day
I'll always hate you for...

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My breath was the first to go
Stolen by the thieves that have attempted to steal so many others'
The thieves that have tempted the honor of the most noble defenders
Stolen from me with no preparation and...

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Most days I lie in bed for days end pretending I am dead
Some days I lose the battle  to hunger, thirst and heartache
This pain is real, pain is the only real thing, not even...

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I’ve stood on your balcony beside your Bald Eagle.
Wolves prey on the lonely souls lost in the night.
I’ve seen your attraction to the dark side flowing.
You have no more room for regret and no more
ways...

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what's a little bit of love from a big part of me
if it makes you smile for a while and you are digging my style
if i made your day better, then i will shower you...

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On my knees, Lord, and with hands raised
I pray I need you, oh how I need you today.
My heart is broken, my strength is gone, 
I am desperate for love only you can provide,
and the...

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I'm the lyrical one and I have been for years 
Ever outspoken the voice of my peers
Spit phrases that thrill when those lyrics I drop
I'm a lyrical legend and top of the shop 
Well my...

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reflections of her as i kiss the ceiling
i become lost in thoughts warm and maternal as the new spider in the corner wonders who i am
so many think i am strange in an isolated state...

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We say a prayer for the wild hearts kept in cages
But can they hear us?
Will he break the cages?
Will he make them be the real them?
He will let us lose the battle
But will he let...

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You can lose the battle and still win the war
As long as you know what you’re fighting for
Because in the end it doesn’t matter how many times you fall
Or all those times you had to...

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Fleeting Visions of how this life was supposed to be
Choke me into Another Year

Unrelenting Regrets heave against
my motivation                 ...

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I fight inside myself
 but I am a paper warrior
 rock and scissors had their way with me
 cut up to shreds and pulverized to bits
 I fight inside myself
 but always hold the white...

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I am a victim
And I refuse to believe that
I can overcome the symptoms of PTSD
I realize that this may be a shock, but
I will heal my pain
Is a lie
My life is hopeless
In 30 years, I...

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I dread that day the 5th of May,
 my loving partner  passed away, 
I find it hard that she has gone,
 undeserved her death was wrong, 
At 42 a life cut short,
I'de double that...

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I used to march without a sense of pride
And never held myself with high esteem.
Appeasing everybody else’s dream,
I’d lose the battle fighting for their side.
I was a soldier, blank and hazy-eyed.
My heart would stop and...

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the sadness
the crushing grief
pressing closer
ever closer
threatening to swallow me up
i fight and fight
i think i might lose the battle
but still i fight on
winning, losing
day and night
it is overpowering
but i do not give up
the ones i...

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Sew your lips or brave to speak
Keep your tried quiet and walk the creek
Understand not of all you see
Life is not it's own reality
Leave alone your bones behind
So you may too feel peace of mind

Only...

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Farewell Failure

noting really matters
this I finally see
what used to give me purpose
finally set me free
everything I cared about
brought me to my knees
and now I only long to be
dust blowing in the breeze
hope is all I...

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