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Best Poems Written by Paul Russell

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Dawn

The dawn approaches,
It's light blinds me with glory
A new day begins

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Never Defeated

My heart is broken
But my love still remains pure
I wont let you win

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My Brother and Me

What can I say about my brother
He is the other son of my mother
We don't whistle the same tune or sing the same song
And we don't always get along
But I could not be more happy for him today
As this is his 18th birthday
He is a man I greatly admire
And to be like him I do aspire

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When Did Love Start

When did love start?
Was it a beating of the heart?

Was it when two eyes met 
or at the first sun set?

This at best is unclear
but love is something you should not fear

Let love into your life
It helps take away the hate and strife

Though when it is lost it's hard to bare
but love again, you have to dare!

I lost my love and it pained me so
Will I ever love again? I don't know

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Distance

I gaze upon a beauty
that I can never grasp.
You are forever changing
as the years drift pass.

Shrouded by night, suspended
in darkness so I appear to you.
Bathed in light, watched by another
and I hide from view.

A Mother, a lover a giver of life
if only we were one.
I'm just a barren landscape, you give 
me meaning though your work is never done.

We belong together, we are
in a perfect balance.
I am forever staring;
I am in a trance.

You have been witness
to my change of face.
I have a darker side
that you can never trace.

I'm held from you by
an unforeseeable force.
I journey around your light
as I run my course.

All I have to offer you is
my unwavering attention.
Night and day I travel 
without any comprehension.

Of what is on your surface,
you give life but to who?
I'm often left to wonder what
dwells within the green and blue?

I may be nothing to you but you
mean the world to me.
I am just a simple moon,
but oh, the things I see.

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Suitcase

Hide and seek should be a simple game
With no-one hurt and no-one to blame

But you haven't seen it played by my brother and me
It truly is an event to see

I hid in a suitcase once when we played
My brother found me but in the suitcase I stayed

Down the stairs I was thrown
When the suitcase was opened I could only groan

I had two lumps on my forehead
"I walked into a door" is what I said

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Valentines Day

My heart is broken, my love is pure
This day I just can't endure
Everyone seems to get in my way
It must be Valentines Day

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Beep

Surrounded by white,
so safe, so secure.

Trapped in a comfort
which I can't endure.

People rush in but
just as quick they go.

My heart feels great pain
but it does not show.

The line jumps up 
and down in sync.

The hours creep by,
so much time to think

About how I got here,
how I am now so weak.

How I let people go,
so many answers I seek.

Why did I believe I had
so much time at hand?

It is only at the end that
we begin to understand

How much time slips away
and love passes us by

Our lives slowly fade away
and in the end we die.

But why look back with such
regret on what has made me smile?

Life is just a mess of confusion
and never end in style.

And so my eyes fall on the machines
that keep me in this state.

This is no way to live;
such an ugly fate.

Instead I use my wrinkled hand
to pull the wires out.

I started a life empty handed
and I'll be sure to end with nought.

I lie back in my comfort,
I have no more time to spend.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.
Silence. End.

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Questioning

What is the reason?
What is the purpose?
What is the question?
What is the answer?

Why do I love you?
Why do I care?
Why don’t you love me?
Why? It’s not fair!

How can I show you
That I feel this way?
How can I tell you
All I want to say

When will you love me?
When will you care?
When will you get these feelings?
When will you dare?

Who are you 
That I still love so?
Who am I?
You don’t even know!

Where can I talk to you?
Where can I see?
Where can I find you?
Where will you be?

These are the questions I ask everyday.
These are the words I cannot say.
I will love you.
I will care.
I will try to share my feelings.
I will dare.
But will you ever love me.
This much is true.
The only thing that won’t change
is the fact that I love you.

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Funeral

You lay there cold, not moving
I want you to blink. Why won't
you blink? Why won't you breathe?

I dont understand. Should I
have understood? Should I have 
known then just to grieve?

Should I suddenly of realised
all matters of life an death?
What would be the point?

I stand there, just a child and
gaze at your ever staring 
eyes as the priest annoints

You and says something I
do not hear. Is this all my fault?
I am filled with regret.

The confusion of a child is
not easily subdued. The
past in stone is set.

We walk from the church,
my Father's hand on my shoulder
as you are placed in the ground.

I close my eyes. My mind begins
wander. Just what in death
is there to be found?