Best Poems Written by Will Beresford

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Fall from love to death

It started with a smile
A true love a dirty deep love
Panda dunks and bands flying 
Clubs and soft skin
Past in the can can you remember

He was so sweet so loving
You wouldnt see it coming
The slow poison 
Shes living live laughs jokes with his boys and then

He snapped

The bruise ripened like the fake fruit that sat in the kitchen
He was different that night 
It wasnt a fight he swung she cowered face wrung

Hes wrong but heres the thing

Hes a manipulator 
He tires her and hides it 
She tries to talk but ends with a sorry 
He gaslights flicker flick but he never said sorry

She left a few times
The phone dragged her back
Small things 
I can change i have changed

She lay in bed 
Bang of the door 
You whore he says
Stomp stomp stairs cower

See the part of the story you see
In the news
 in the paper 
Nothing new 
Domestic abuse words not new 
To the ear

See she should have stayed away
She should have run
She should have hid
She should have done this
She should have done that

But she shouldnt have to
That was the end of her story
Over before it started
20 years he got for the life he took
Hows the reaper balance the skale
With a finger or fowl play
Any way you say she still lays there
In her wooden bed

Yet, 
She still cant escape
That phone still rings with his name
She would never be free

Copyright © Will Beresford | Year Posted 2025


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3 masked men

3 masked men 
Sun at their backs burning heavy, bright
As silhouette turns to figure,
A striking image displaying only death

3 masked men 
Sea born breeze blowing, a single tear
Was there a message?
3 masked men exclaiming silently.

3 masked men 
Drawing ever closer 
Fields drag with anticipation 
Closer the men draw

3 masked men 
Arriving with gifts from a recent history
Belongings sharing horrific memories
These have seen battle

3 masked men 
Departing saying nothing
Speaking thousands of words
Honor the souls that live in these vessels 

No more men
All stands still
Women weep for their loss 
Children missing memories soon to be

No more men
Blood soaked ornaments 
One lost 
Many lost

3 masked men
Sunsets sweet memory

Copyright © Will Beresford | Year Posted 2024

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Water

The water is close 
Yet we drown in sollace
The dissaray of despare piles like the water that piles and heaps behind the dams

Our bodies lie decrepid and dry 
Yet we are close
The water drips 
And
It dissapears 
Into the body that now is just as it was before water

We can see this wealth
A body that would sustain ours
Synergetic and symbiotic
Yet, the water remains distant

Our eyes feast on the drip as it sprints and hides
We can crawl but we cannot really
We are all to weak to brave the journey of dust and dry despair

Drip

And those of us who do
Realize
The water is not real
And we all die
All mortal
All with our pains and greivences
The suffering and eternality 

The water was a lie

Copyright © Will Beresford | Year Posted 2025

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Work

Work hard, 
Work's hard

Copyright © Will Beresford | Year Posted 2025

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Raw lingering heartbreak

He cries
Yes sometimes
The memory burnt in
Hot iron press into his weak mind

He saw the flowers yet again
Some bustling with life
Half drooping and dying diligently
And he saw

Theres something sinister in the mind
When you realize you near the end of a chapter
All you can do is read on until it ends
... 
Well what if you dont want it to end

Stopping reading would be stopping everything
And reading is your life
Escaping or reality of the mind
He knew he was nearing the end of that chapter

All he wanted was to hold on
Read a little bit slower
So mabye
Just mabye
He could enjoy his comfort for a little bit longer

See he is plagued

Not with a disease no
But with foresight
He knew again it was ending
And it ended
And it broke him

All he could see were the flowers
Tears meandered the regular path on his dry cheek
He could still see it
As he slowly forgot her face

The flowers
Sitting atop the dresser

Copyright © Will Beresford | Year Posted 2025


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