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Best Poems Written by Owen Van Der Schyf

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Dignity In Humanity

Humanity took the last boat
The last one way ticket 
On the last wooden ship with sails
Yes
Humanity left in style
If it was today
But that boat now
Sails the seabed

Humanity is like the
Boogeyman or Davy Jones locker
Bedtime stories to your children
A world full of magical creatures
And fairytale endings 
Humanity is but a story

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Walk Together

Let's go back
To a time
Where love ruled
And flowers were in guns
Let's go back
To a place
Where opinions were free
And man was still man

Love the beauty that life can give
All of us as one
Say no more just come together
And live in peace once more

The love you give 
Is what you receive
Take this time
To reach each other 
And show the strength of love

Take my hand 
Let's walk together
Through the dark aged woods
The sun will rise and so will we
We'll rise and stand with the stars

Let's go back
To a time
Where flowers were alive

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The Devil Roams At Night

A faint light in the air
Moon arises on a smiling corpse
A warm heart with blood 
running, still

Ash inside its mouth
Blowing to the closest ear
The devil roams at night
Waking up in pain
The seed blooming deep
No way to end this night
For the devil roams at night

The night drags for days
The words for months
Shelter burning down
By the smiling corpse
Shelter that was your shield
Blackened by the flames
Words last but a moment
But the devil's still burns

Coming out seems vague
Rebuilding seems less
Your will can be done
But the corspe you must leave
For the devil roams at night

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Love, I Never Had

In Love
I've never been
Dying little by little
Each time the thought appears
The charade I made
Everytime it came in

The variegation of love
Changes all the time
Love isn't physical
That I know
Everytime you think
It takes your breath away
You take a moment each moment
to be breathless

Opening your eyes
Just to not fall asleep
so you can relive

Living a moment 
over and over
till a new one comes to mind
Affraid I haven't had........
A moment like that before

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Love Keeps Me Young

A love I never felt is the love I 
have for you
This feeling deep inside
Brightens my life around

Stories I have heard
From this love I now feel
Stronger than it was told
This love now is real

I will die young
Even a hundred years from now
Love keeps me young
Beauty will not fade
Sharing this love
I can't keep it in any longer

Free as I can be
With you next to me
Unstoppable I'll be 
You standing next to me

A thousand miles each day
Worth the smile that you have
Each second without you 
Feels longer than my life
Holding you near
Takes me some place far away

I will die young
Even a hundred years from now
Love keeps me young
Beauty will not fade
Sharing this love
I can't keep it in any longer

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The Darkness Inside

As the dark creeps in
I sly away
To the valley of the unknown
Where darkness never sleeps
snakes and skeletons are the floor
to the unknown

I try to feel my way 
to the despair of of a hissing breath 
I become the darkness 
and it becomes me

afraid am I not
for the darkness is one with my soul
and I am it's master

Nor do I shiver
nor look down 
for the darkness give me the strength 
to wonder alone

The fire becomes the night
and the creatures walk among the ash
dripping with envy
the sleeplessness wants free
to the leaves they give cold
but nothing can be seen
for the only ones that see
are the ones walking among the night

The darkness chooses your soul
and you can't ever escape the valley
the more you run the deeper inside you become

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So Close, Yet So Far

Never saw the moon in love before
Looking at it now, has it always been
So far away you see the same…….. moon
Breath-taking view from the edge
Only because I see you there
I’ve come undone
Now that you are so far away

Chorus:
So close yet so far away from me
You are so far away from me
The time and distance that’s between
Could never take away what I feel
I will always feel you next to me

Your smile will stand time
Break down the walls that I built
I only cry because of you
And the flowers that grow
Comes from you
But yet you are so far away

Chorus:

I’ll travel the seas in search of you
For a thousand year till I find you
Together we will be for eternity

Chorus:

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Love Is Only a Moment

You rolled your eyes and turned your back
Together we stood, separately
You looked at me and said

There’s nothing you can do
Nothing you can say to take this pain away
I forgot how it felt to feel this way
Now you brought it back again
And this time it’s here to stay

you made me feel safe
Sheltered me from the bad 
Took to my heart like Cupid’s arrow
And there you stayed
What went wrong

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The Open Road

Got a one way ticket in my pocket 
To an unknown destination
I’m going down a one way road
With a guitar and couple blank pages


I’m going down, down
The open road
I’m going down

My reflection shines onto the window
As the moon shines his halo light
The open road talks to me
With the wind blowing her murky voice

I’m going down, down
The open road
Eagle’s soaring in the sky
Bikes roaming gaining road
The road’s the only place to be
I’m going down

Sleeping next to a blazing fire 
Its smoky blanket warms me
The stars my night light in the sky
And the road my companion

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Forgiveness

Loving you is a sin
all else fades away
The sins you do
I've already forgiven
Take my hand
hold it and never let go

Singing out of tune
No one sounds as good
You shouldn't be here
This place ain't for you
Blood flows like water
Yellow isn't your color
Come away with me
Here you shouldn't be

The dream I had last night
You were there and I'd dream it again
So simple, so sweet
I was out of breath
out of breath for you
So untouched by fear
So willing to be here

Empty pockets is what you have
Less is what you feel
Work you don't know
Fading away little by little
Till you're not there
Still I do care