Long Shadow of his former self Poems

This day is hot and bright and  fills my weary eyes,
and while sleep is gone it lies in wait.
The years have gone and the weeds have come. 
The dandelions are hard hot yellow in...

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There was a time when the trees seemed taller,
A time when the grass seemed greener and the colors brighter.

A time when the sky seemed like an everlasting blue,
Where the clouds seemed to take on countless...

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I am lying in a sea of emotions.
Emotions so raw and pure, that they overwhelm.

Regret, the many regrets of feeling special.
Regret of feeling worthy. 
Regret of believing I could be loved.
Regret of being naive and...

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"The looking glass"

Look closely and what do you see? A hopeless addict with hollow eyes, no emotion on their face. A shadow of their former self? Selfishly throwing away everyone they ever loved for a...

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Every day of my life I am there for everyone since a child
Knowing we all have a battle to fight though to others it seems mild
I’ve supported everyone and been the person who can just...

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She is a young terrified girl.
A waning light in the dark
A true citizen of a wrong place;
A real burden to self
An epitome of depression
The embodiment of resentment.

Eyelids glued by the pus
That oozed, then clogged her...

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She is a young terrified girl.
A waning light in the dark
A true citizen of a wrong place;
A real burden to self
An epitome of depression
The embodiment of resentment.

Eyelids glued by the pus
That oozed, then clogged her...

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A rewrite.

It's been a long cold dark lonely winter
Since you went away
I live in limbo
And torture myself every single day
The sun used to shine my way
But now turns the other way
A shadow of my former...

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Sometimes I don’t know which one of us is broken
And which one of us does the breaking
I’m still not sure exactly who I’ve become
Or if I’ve even begun changing
You stepped out for another smoke outside
Didn’t...

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He  sat up in the bed with his  thin face buried  deep into in his small lap,
And for a brief moment his  head was  a pillow as he took a...

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Love

By Nathan Hannen

This feeling in my heart, Warmed my body so
This majestic feeling fills my soul, Never let you go
The first time we kissed, My heart melted away
You are so beautiful, To love I heard...

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Sitting in the Hall Of Pain
malnourished of courage, a cloudy brain,
the walls stand tall and plain,
stretching up as high as flying planes.
My core in confusion, 
fuming flames icy conclusion?
Those planes fly high up on the...

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So high all the time
Trying to wash her mark away
Like waves washing away a sand castle
Waves of smoke washing away a masterpiece
Deep in my skin like a scar
My mind consumed 
Getting lost in my mind...

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Cancer it breaks cancer it takes
It erodes and corrodes body and soul
Lingers and takes hold  cant be stopped or controlled
Terminal is with an apparent ending
Loss of hope and no point in pretending
Life span is...

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I'm the kid staring into the shop window
Without a penny to spend
I am the hopeless cursed romantic
Without any roses or valentines to send
I'm the life and soul of the party
But feels rejection like daggers to...

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With noiseless step sweet memory comes
and leads me gently through her twilight realms.

What poet’s tune has ever sung
or delicate pencil ever portrayed
the enchanting, sometimes shadowy land 
where memory dwells?

It has valleys, cheerless, lone, and dreary
dark-shaded...

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For a long time I thought that you were for me,
Thought I would never give up, then I decided to flee.
Came back again, gave it another shot,
Now I realize the trap in which I was...

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What would I do if you left
Took all our dreams away
We have become one
Would I then be half a man
A shadow of my former self
who would remember our stories
Finish my thoughts
Be the completion of me
You...

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Christmas was always your favorite time of year, we’d had such fun especially when you dressed up as Santa to entertain the local children. With your white beard and rounded tummy you certainly looked the...

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The sun looked down one day
And saw a frozen Lady Earth beneath him lay
The sparkling stars hanging all around
A dazzling glow on her face found
He gazed down with love in his eyes
And willed the vivid...

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...for the Rev Eric Shirvell-Price


A blizzard of papers blanketed his desk.
His pipe rack stood like a chess piece, 
mutely waiting to be shifted.
Sepia-toned photographs lined the mantle shelf
like soldiers standing at attention, 
and there was...

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killed by my memories

my thoughts, my mind
so ****ed up so twisted inside
they are killing me, ripping me apart
flesh from bone, rippng my very skin from my body
my mind never sleeps, forever tormenting me
drowning me, torturing...

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As I approach my twilight years,
I find myself less important, 
less relative in other’s eyes,
I’m not needed, 
lonely and fading away. 

Once I was the man in charge, 
all decisions came thru me, 
my words...

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Trying to walk down a blood striken street,
not easy with bare feet,
I looked at the floor in a daze,
dazed and confused,
and totally bemused,
frost bite in my frozen bue and greyish toes,
I started to glare at...

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