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Fallen Brother

My stomach knots and my head is spinning, my blood is pumping and my heart 
is racing. I sit and wait but my mind is pacing back and forth. My freedom rests in 
the hands of a total stranger and a lawyer I have never seen. I am asked to trust 
someone with my life that has never proven anything to me and try to convince 
me he is competent enough to play god with my life. I had dreams to have a wife 
and kids but as I sit and wait I see my life slip further and further away. The 
harder I pray the more what I thought was so clear has now become so dark and 
grey. The one I love is so far away but I still don't know how to say all I wish to 
say. All I can think is please stay please stay, and then I look around and realize I 
was thinking out loud. Some people looked at me as if I was crazy and some 
looked as if they had sympathy for the pain my heart was going through. I glance 
around and start to feel all the pain in everyone elses eyes as they die a little just 
like me. The people that judge our fate must not feel or they would not strip our 
soul away and play the role of my god.

                                 "in loving memory of my brother 
                                  you will never be forgotten"

Copyright © Richard Roper | Year Posted 2007



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End

I am taking what's left of my broken soul because there is nothing left for me 
here.  this pain,  its all too real,  in my head I scream this cant be for real.  I'm a 
prisoner held captive in this broken life.  I'm scared of this fate that has been 
given to me,  never again will I feel complete.  Pain in life is so funny in how we 
see things so very clearly when the time of life is over.  I've got to be dreaming but 
I can't wake up from this. I accept this as my place now. So I lay back and let this 
shattered soul take it's time to reflect, don't make a sound and don't wake me 
from this end.

Copyright © Richard Roper | Year Posted 2007

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To My Love

When i look into your eyes I know its true. My heart has never lied to me be for so 
I am in love with you. I remember the day that I knew I had to be with you,  that day 
always plays in my mind.  You looked so perfect in your jeans and shirt I 
remember that night you slipped into my dreams. I truly wish I could be with you 
because my love for you is stronger than words & songs could ever express. I 
am so warped in my head by this feeling of love.  I'm hollow because I cant make 
the wrongs in my life right again. Lost because I long for you every minute of 
every day. My shaterred soul is lonely because I miss the gentle warmth as your 
soul  touches mine, my heart is scar d & my faith in love is tested because we 
can't be together again. I'm forever lost & alone in an empty abyss because I love 
you. My abandoned soul is forever ripping while my tears are slowly dripping, but 
always know I love you.

Copyright © Richard Roper | Year Posted 2007


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