Long Unaccomplished Poems

Good boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood

The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
I exaggerate too much and so too much,...

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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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The tingles of sudden sensation
Brings me to this uncanny motivation 

I’m so uncertain…
I’m a white curtain,
Stained with murky mistakes…
Mistakes I’ve made in the past…
It shakes me up to say this…
Not all memories last…alas, I’ve ran...

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-Thinking of Iraq Ware Veterans on Veterans Day-

The day after the terrorists attacked our country, I joined the military and was deployed to Iraq. I fought in the desert far away from my sweet home...

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"I Woke Up One Morning."

I woke up one morning as if from a dream, 
I had lived from being a child, to an old age. 
I was struck by anguish and fear until I realized...

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Casting a glance past my shoulder as Chopin’s Berceuse opens into the air
            light diffuses across the room with its Autumn shadow
 
 ...

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Grifter (inspired by Seth Art Carrillo) 

Grifter was what someone told me...I reckon it was on a ridiculously stupid app...and a friend of mine told me about it, laughing while he says it...while I silently...

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You won't open up 
You never did 
The chances of you reaching out to me on this shifting tectonic plate 
The same as jumping out an airplane window 
But you never opened up and now...

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Dear Self,

I'm oh so sorry I let you down, so many uncountable times
Sorry I ignored your cries and pretended I didn't hear them, though they were all 
what was ringing in my ears
I'm so sorry...

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I pray to God that it will be a brighter day; 
I want his warmth to clothe me day after day 
Someday, the sun will erase all of my doubts
 and push away the clouds…
I...

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YOUR LIFE IS YOU
The mansions and the luxury you see around
That make many a man very proud
Making you feel and see your life as a failure
While you have never being a failure
Because you have never...

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If you ask me to look in a mirror
To stand in front of it naked before the world
What do you think I'd see?
An accomplished teenager who has made it so far in life?
A wonderfully intelligent...

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© Ben Burton 8/16/2015

As my time on this earth dwindles
Toward those final sips of coffee
After appetizer, entree
And dessert have been devoured
I grieve all those wasted moments
When I only saw forever
Endless time to make it happen
Led...

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The mirror knows.
It shows
More than you’ll allow it
More th?n you’ll admit.
The music stops
The heart – it drops.
At least, while you are dancing
You’ve got no time to see.
You’re gazing in the distance,
Avoidant of reflections.
You catch a...

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Numb the pain, throbbing inside me
My faith has crumbled into crumbs of deception
Numb the pain, coursing through my veins
You're keeping me sane and I'd like to thank you for that 
In the desert of desolation,
I...

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At Last

Over ten years, hanging out on my coffee table.
Finally, one thousand four hundred and sixty pages,
collecting dust, in-between, in conclusion are able
to join two dozen, previously read, in various stages.

During these years, I did...

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The forest's hill is high,
not rocky,infertile or steep;
colorful and fragrant flowers
adorn its grassy slopes without gleam, 
breathing among the fallen trees
as the ravens scrutinize and sigh...

My warm forehead is sticky,
and ready to drip sweat;
it's almost...

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Sitting still and watching as world flows by in a buzzing light
Am I noticed?
Engines and sirens wiz by with noise that pierces and echoes, drunks crawl streets in a
haze of smoke,
Am I noticed?
My childhood lost...

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I lost my one shot at unconditional love, because my mother deserted me.
Too young to know the reasons, which may, undoubtedly, have been valid, 
I was left with an eternal feeling of abandonment, which seeped...

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Thousand words may walk a mile
And I may forget those in a while
Thousand deeds may knock the doors
And I may forget those in daily chores
But, I would remember … how you made me feel

Thousand poems...

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Quietly, I sit up on my bed,
While devious little thoughts, entice my head...
I close my eyes to rid the Pain,
Of those dangerous thoughts, that haunts my brain...

But inside, this Bewitched brain of mine,
Are evil images,...

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Thump, thump...thump, thump
Your heart beats with internal impediment
Making each breath a struggle.
I see your pain,  I feel your anguish,
I dearly love your determination to endure.

I can only imagine how difficult it is to
relinquish days...

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This forgotten land whispers tales of old,
Of struggles, triumphs, and stories untold,
In the shadows of history, it quietly weeps,
A place where the past forever sleeps.

In the retrospection of the Barannqwe everflowing stream,
Where dead cattle lie...

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Yeah I understand that you can say we are done
Yes I do know that u put up with me for a long time
No I don’t get how you can walk away from me
How you can...

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This long day has come to a close,
don't regret the vocation you chose;
drink up, your work is done!
Drink up, life only offers wine,
it's a brief pause from insane worries
and unaccomplished things!

Drink up, it's the moment...

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