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Best Poems Written by Carson Metcalfe

Below are the all-time best Carson Metcalfe poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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My Tears

Last night I wept
And as I cried
My sadness crept
Smiles denied

I know not 
For which I weep
My mind shot
Secrets to keep

I have a guess 
For what I cry
My mind a mess
Still I try

At last I know I weep for me
And everything I used to be

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She

She
The word traps me
It crawls under my skin 
And suffocates my mind
She
The word cries with me
It steals my confidence
And takes my will 
She
The word is not me
It’s known with a different heart
Called to a different mind
She
The word they call
The one they know
But she will never be me

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I Dream Not To Hold a God

Being with you is overwhelming for
You are so much more than I am
You fill my thoughts and spill out my heart
For you are too much

You are so much more than I am
Because you are a god I dream not to hold
For you are too much
For a mortal like me

Because you are a god I dream not to hold
Because your beauty is too unearthly 
For a mortal like me
And I love you so much more than I should

Because your beauty is too unearthly 
You hold thousands of suns in your hands
And I love you more than I should
For you may burn me without intention 

You hold a thousand suns in your hands
And I should not get close the moon within your eyes
For you may burn me without intention 
And you can control the oceans and tide

And I should not get close to the moon within your eyes
Because the moon controls the raging water
And you can control the oceans and tide
And you may drown me without intention 

Because the moon controls the raging water
And I cannot get to close
And you may drown me without intention
I love you so much more than I should

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All Our Love

Ballerinas love to dance
Swimmers love to swim
Hypnotists love a trance
Lights love to dim

My brain hurts loves to scream
My heart loves to break
My thoughts love to scheme
My hands love to shake

My fingers love to tear
All across my skin
It’s a pain I can wear
Should I do a spin

My tears act like acid
They love to burn across my face
A still mind, just being placid
A distant longing for my place

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These Little Lies

I’m fine I say 
As my breathing speeds up 
I don’t care I repeat
As the tears start to fall 
These words I say 
These little lies 
Won’t calm the rain brewing in my eyes 
It’s okay I whisper 
In the dead of night 
Just calm down 
I say while my mind weeps 
These words I say 
These little lies
Won't work on me despite the tries 
My mind won’t listen
When I say I’m fine 
That’s because my mind won’t lie 
My brain won’t agree 
That I’m okay 
That’s because my brain remembers the day 
So I’ll say I'm fine 
I’ll lie I’m okay 
Because I know these little lies
Are here to stay

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Snow Blindness

It’s when your vision goes white
And you can’t see right 
It’s so scary to feel
So here’s the deal

Focus on the trees
Or the ache in your knees
Or the cold on your cheeks
That will linger for weeks

Because when my eyes can’t see
Where I seem to be
My mind goes dark from the light 
How ironic for a world so bright

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Dead Men Tell No Tales

Dead men tell no tales
Yet the skulls like to move
Dreaded words get whispered
As they long to prove

Dead men tell no tales
Yet they haunt the living
Muttering their secrets
And never forgiving

Dead men tell my secrets 
As they testify against me
Irrefutable evidence
To never let me be free

Dead men tell no tales
I claim to the jury
You would use the words of a skull
To willingly condemn me

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Bleeding Green

It’s such a shame
My skin bleeds red
I don’t like the color
Can it be green instead

Green like the thorns 
That protect petty flowers
Can they protect me
For just a few hours 

When I’m at my weakest
And in need of protection 
To stay by my side
Throughout my dissection

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Why Grieve Me

Just maybe
Maybe I can understand 
Why you say these things 
Is it to flood my mind 
To bring me tears
To stress me out
To cause me pain 
To make me ashamed 
Of who I am today
Or to make who I am
Simply go away

Why else would you say
That you’re grieving me
I’m still by your side
I’m still here
I’m still me
I haven’t left
And I’m not planning on leaving 
So why
Why would you say that you grieve me
When all I want to do
Is be who I’m meant to be

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Small Simple Pleasures

Hidden flashlights 
And hushed voices 
Open windows
Scared of small noises 

Sitting on rooftops
Not to leave but to stay 
Grounding myself
So my mind isn’t in the way

My body shaking 
Ridden with cold
Refusing to go in
The feeling never gets old 

Finally returning 
To a warm waiting place
It seems so different 
From my cold safe space 

Huddled under blankets
Hidden in extreme measures
But they can never take away 
My small simple pleasures