Short Wasting Away Poems

wasting away

  weary and doubt riddled

       eroded memories...

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Wasting away
Moments to years
Holding Back
The flow of tears
Wishing for more
Wanting no less
Than to feel each day
A sense of purpose....

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My weight is still plummeting, I'm happy as hell
Wasting away, to my fatness I say farewell
But it's the chance I take
For goodness sake
Young fillies will be bugging me for a night at my motel...

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In all my years as a graphic designer
At this ripe old age, there's nothing finer
Than to still be in the loop
And cooking up graphic soup
Better than wasting away in my old recliner


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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I like the way my mania feels, 
She comforts me in my weakest moments.
She holds me in her arms and sings to me.
When it’s her time to go she gives me one last kiss and wipes my tears. 
Without her here I am wasting away.


Makayla...

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Ah, up again at 4 a.m. 
Wasting away by computer light. 
Waiting for something extraordinary to happen. 
Waiting for my life to begin. 
Waiting. 
Simply waiting. 
Until lights first appearance upon the sky, 
When another day awaits me 
Instead of me it....

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On my melancholy days
It feels like I’m wasting away
Feeling the past is all I am
And the future is not at my command

When my melancholy days are done
Will my story be left undone?
Or will they say I did my best
And that I was different from the rest.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Sometimes the mood just breaks me
No sunshine just dark days not ever free
And I wonder what will become of today
Its just feeling of wasting away

Where do you go those days
Misty blue looking for better ways
For what can you do 
It feels like forever blue.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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We will finish this Task 
Come what may
Wasting away the beauty of our day
A dark cloud of contempt
Winds of lies in the air
Lightening beating our souls bare
Where is the Sorrow
Is Their any Empathy at all
To Author this Storm
Is beyond comprehension
 An....Yes.....
Dust can only Fall...........

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His eyes were always on the horizon
Where his longing for the future had no end
For the world spun moving fast
And he meant to be the one to last

Until it occurred to him one day
That his life was wasting away
So he looked around at the world
Seeing all the wonders to be held.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Time…
Wilts away 

Memories… 
Fading moments of a better yesterday 

Life…
Constrict in place for your freedom  

Society…
Deterioration of its innocence 

Leaders…
Decay the ability to make a difference  

Friendship…
Shriveled from the distance 

Earth…
Wasting away

My soul…
Disintegrate...

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Must say it is okay,
When I'm wasting away.
I have to hide,
I live a lie.
I am a waste of space,
Just want to leave this place.
People say I’m strong,
Listen to my song.
I am  a freak,
I get called a geek.
Always in trouble,
Found in the rubble.
I wanna clean up my act,
I’m not strong enough for that....

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Floating in a world of loneliness
Drifting without purpose or happiness
Worn out faces and places meld
No longer mine just hollowed out memories held

Wanting to move on and not stay
I feel myself slowly wasting away
No more lights in the darkness draw
Settling for less but wanting more.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Empathize
You are him
Down to size
Sink or swim

See their guns?
Just pretend
You’re having fun
Just pretend
Naught to mend

Wasting away
They’ll give you
Another day
They’ll give you
A chance to pray

Weighted life
Mouth quiet
Hide the strife
A new diet
A dripping knife

It’s ok if
You’re not him
‘Cause you know
He’ll sink not swim...

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I could not find 
A refuge to dissipate 
Anything to comfort my mind, 
Dreams only anticipate 
Which does not exist in humankind, 
The pain does not subside 
It's forever in the mind 
Eternally will it reside, 
Fading, wasting away, 
To who can I confide 
The anguish of today 
Of all record of my time, 
Then, my soul, could it allay?...

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Poisoning his body ever since she left;
right up close, yet a million miles away.
Meth-lab;
got rehab.
Wasting away in his jail cell,
he's straight to heaven, yet living in hell.
Right up close, yet a million miles away.
Knock on wood; hope he stays good.
In spite of strife, she took his life;
she was supposed to be his wife....

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I’m wasting away day by day.
Missing you.  My mind still accepts 
No one but you.  I think of you
All the time.  I close my eyes
And you are there.  No one but you.
I would that you had died.  Yes,
My grief would have run deep, but
Nothing like the torment you caused
When you took me to the highest plain
And left me there to fall....

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You keep your fasts to please Allah 
while you murder other beings for pleasure
You look after your own interests
and so not see the interests of others 
What good is your word 
you say the One Lord is within you
But you do not think or contemplate on Him
you do not care for others 
You are mad about religion
this is why your life is wasting away...

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Living on a path of self destruction,
Hammers to the head make a concussion,
What's the point this discussion,
Relieve this pressure built up within,
Put on this mask so all emotions are hidden,
Thoughts turn into actions in disbelief,
Just one cut for instant relief,
Genius of this magnitude is hard to find,
Ironically wasting away a beautiful mind....

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I've become one of those kids forgotten and all,
One of those kids who just aren't in the hall.
The kid that got along with everyone,
But a kid that left and moved from everyone.
Alone I sit thinking of that life,
The life I loved and how I lived that life.
Now I sit alone all day and night,
Wasting away once was, my beautiful life.

-Eddie Cox...

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I try to keep my friends
things just separated us
I'm being buried
never to be heard again
It's hard to tell...
if I'm loved anymore
I'm just wasting away

I try but it seems like
I don't know what I'm doing
I was told that I needed to open up
and I did
But it seems now that I'm being closed
and locked back into my silence
I'm just wasting away...

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Lost love

Did you lose your heart
When did the teardrops start
Was it on the first day 
Did you feel like wasting away

How was it then
When you knew love was at an end
Could you walk away
Knowing your memories were all at play

Such a final thing
Just a sad song to sing
Loss for lovers in pain
And photographs remain.

© Paul Warren Poetry	...

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Tick-tock
Time’s wasting away.
Is it truly?
Have we made time a commodity?
She owes nothing and is not swayed by any of us.
Can time even be wasted?
It is infinite yet brief.
I’ve existed forever and I’m still an embryo.
I pay my own mortgage but still feel my mother’s kiss on my brow as I drift off.
I am alive.
I am immortal.
I am dead.
I always have been....

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I’m immortal and everlasting,
Wasting away in eternity,
Inside my own oblivion,
Where time stands on edge,

I’m humanity and mortality,
Wasting time on thoughts and worries,
Inside my own hourglass,
The sand is quickly falling,

I’m immortal and mortality,
Wasting away in an eternity of doubt,
Inside an Hourglass of Oblivion,
Where time stands still but still runs out....

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Suspense kills
I would kill again 
grasping at fate, where it lies
on my conscience.

What's left of this you have a taste for now,
pulling together,
moving on to what you left behind,

Stripping time

I time travel until I belong in my skin,
no longer in limbo watching the clock,
your lies wasting away the hours...

a thankless task to cling to time,
always waiting for what I cannot decline....

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