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What I Have Left Far Behind

I walked knowingly into the trap
as a boat sails over Charybdis.
Afraid of showing tell-tale marks
up and down my arms.
I gave in to the lesser evil,
went astray, searching indiscriminately for an escape.
My search lead me to a certain type of website.
Taking refuge in my libido,
I removed my clothes, alone.
My body laid bare, for the asking.
My hands

Categories: past tense, abuse, addiction, body, change,
Form: Free verse

A Past-Tense Message

Don't worry now about past tense,
It's gone, passe'~ no longer hence.
Forget all those words left unsaid,
moments still waiting, books unread.
The future will come, enticed or not
Enjoy the days time has brought.

Categories: past tense, change, conflict, courage, encouraging,
Form: Couplet

Past Tense

I could make excuses
Or claim I was possessed
But fact would find its way out
Of duplicity confessed

So I will speak those truths
Clandestine in my past
Although far from my first mistakes
I vow each one the last

I have worshiped money
My words have been profane
I have ignored the Sabbath
And caused my parents pain

I’ve smashed some helpless insects
Thought things much

Categories: past tense, forgiveness, god, judgement, prayer,
Form: Lyric

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Which Verse Is Past Tense Which Verse Is Present

WITH EVERY YESTERDAY
IS A TIME GONE BY
THOSE DAYS AHEAD MIGHT
BE BETTER IF
THEN IN THESE IFINISM WE DO THE SAME
TO BE CATCH IN THE
CHANGE BARRANCE OF SAME
YET WHICH DAYS MIGHT WE CREATE A CHANGE
TO LEARN FROM THOSE DAYS GONE BY
HALF A DAY SPENT
BEING FOOLISH
IS A HALF A DAY
SOMEONE ASKEST WHY
WHEN THE WHEELS START
AND THE GRAIN IS

Categories: past tense, culture, inspirational, longing, music,
Form: Narrative

Past Tense

we starved.

we danced.

Categories: past tense, true love,
Form: Free verse

Past Tense

The only difference 
between you and me is...
You thought of me sometimes
While I...

I think of you always

Categories: past tense, care, change, goodbye, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Past Tense Chums

I don’t understand the past tense.
Why is it that fight is fought?
And catch is caught when liked for like is right.
And what about sighted is that a past tense of sight?

The list is endless, and I spent hours amazed by all of it.
It was worse than a stinky sweaty work-out so I sweated!
Notice the t

Categories: past tense, humorous, language, teacher, word
Form: Rhyme

Past Tense

Past Tense

The pain and this grief is held close
	to my chest is, all that is left is
		becomes past tense.

Memory now vanishing, this work
	of remembering is love
		without vibrancy, vitality or motion.

No aroma of the moment is more
	smelling than thinking is.
		All that is left is

Clenching a shadow not
	caressing her flesh, is
		all that is left is;

Another kind of

Categories: past tense, death, loss,
Form: Free verse

Past Tense and Future Sense

I used to believe that death maybe easier, 
my only escape. 
The only way out of everything I hate. 
But suicide is not my fate. 
So I looked at what I came from: 
A family broke of money, broke of love, 
broke from any belief that someones up above. 
Listening to our prayers. 
Tired of

Categories: past tense, life, teenfuture, hope, life,
Form: Verse

Past Tense

Perfect day, anyway
Nothing left to say
Holding on to
Don't you ever fade
Never go away

Past tense, enraptured
Everything is captured
In my mind, going over
How this can really be
What we have shattered

One by one, against me
It's all adding up now
We didn't count to you
Now it is best of luck
Like some random other

Here waiting on you
Through any season
I'm not stuck

Categories: past tense, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme

Past Tense

Scent upon a breeze
Blows so softly past my cheek
Memories invade

Categories: past tense, inspirational,
Form: Haiku

Past Tense

There's never a quiet moment in this orphanage of lost thoughts.
Every night I meander into group therapy alone.
I wonder which lost soul I'll save tonight,
And by the way, who am I?

AM/FM contraband,
Broadcast to the city of the already damned.
Broken bottles shipwrecked again,
Driftwood diaries left to repent.

I never knew what I thought you knew.
Barren, vast, and

Categories: past tense, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse