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I Cannot Sea

A life unto of ebb & flow
The Masters seated down below
Or high above
I cannot tell
Heaven may beholden hell

My heart cries out
but I think I died
It doesn’t pound that it did before
For where I am, I am not to sure

I did not bleed, I did not scorn
Where did this rath come forlorn

I thought I’d paved the way to free
Yet here I am, alone - 

I cannot sea

Except a fair few off light that dwindles
I’m thwarted & it pains me so
To just feel pain and so much woe

I cannot sea

Am I on a boat, Am I on a yacht
These memories that not be forgot

I think I know what’s happening here
It is my turn to take the steer
I never wanted it this way
But now I’m steering all the way

Until the next one, next from me
Beholds from not is from the sea
That dwindling light, passage unclear
The ebb & flow is so near
It may be your time soon to come
That pounding heart that is now done

I cannot sea
Can you see?

Copyright © Penny Goodhall | Year Posted 2025


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Your Forlorn

Your Forlorn

At some point, I’ll know the pass
So abhorrent I cannot surpass

The cruel and twisted of the mind
I have to keep my mind sublimed

The weeping mind
The mindless soul
The love that was never told

The shame that broke my heart in two
Of forever wanting you
That tiny child, so long ago
The one that never knew a foe

The one that held the cries inside 
And now it bleeds out deep you know
That sickening that doth does spew
Because that sickening, that was you

Forgiveness now tis in my mind
I’ve passed a way it is now kind
I hope you get the passage through
Your mind
Release
Don’t feel it blue

One day you’ll seethe in your mind
A fruitful magic of cries inside 
Of understanding that you’ll know

No more broken hearts
No more antagonising foe

The weeping mind it is no more
Unfortunately for you 
Forlorn

Copyright © Penny Goodhall | Year Posted 2025

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Not Tonight

Not Tonight

My mind it cries into the night
There is no longer so much fright
The rapture that was long ago
Tis is not now I to and fro
Guilded, that is not me
I’m crying to be set free
A lie
Betrayal
I’ve died inside

Just not tonight

Freedom from my deepest sins
Inside my mind just not so kind
Believeth to be set free

Just not tonight

I’ll pull through
It’s in my nature
But sometimes I feel I waiver
The simple cries that hurt me so

Just not tonight 

The pain upon my brow
The sorrow felt so deep below
The Autumn is upon us
And yet I do not hear the crow
Inflicted I did unto myself
No yield for my mind that doth come true

Just not tonight

Maybe I can make it further
A rustle of what could come true
No more that is just black and blue
A simple thought, a crackle or a spark
So forever more it will always be

Just not tonight

Copyright © Penny Goodhall | Year Posted 2025

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