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Best Poems Written by Jay Eddy

Below are the all-time best Jay Eddy poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Tell Me You Hate Me

Tell me you hate me
I couldn't bear to say that too
Tell me you hate me
I'll still care about you
Call me a bastard 
I'll still care all the same
Call me a demon
A demon with no name
Call me the worst 
Please forgive me
Call me the worst
Don't make me go back to the whiskey
Call me the best
I will doubt it too
Tell me I matter
I'll always help you
Tell me you hate me
I will always love you

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Call of the World

See a man lay down his head
With a bottle of whiskey, wishing he was dead
Never had the courage but always the need
He lived in a world where he could not succeed
How dare the world judge him, how dare they blame
When they know they make all mistakes the same
How dare they call him a failure and a fool
When you are your greed's own tool
He admitted his mistakes
Baptized in these great lakes
Born anew but not forgiven
By the world in which he was livin'
He lived in a world where he could not be
Everything he had dreamed, look with your own eyes and see
A man broken
A man chokin'
Look what you have done
Look what he's become
It's your fault, the man I once knew is gone
Just like another dawn

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Mercy

I have betrayed myself and others
My own sisters and brothers
So tonight as I sit kneeling
I can only feel this feeling
Guilt and death itself
Crawling out of the bookshelf
I read the words and I can't find mercy
Neither the priest nor the clergy
I find myself in this hole again
Crying and weeping as I sat there wondering; fearing
Fearing that my best was not enough

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Dying Love

Here I lie
Left here to die
By those considered allies 
So today is the day love dies
Harden the heart
Deaden the soul
Let your heart grow cold
But wait my advice should not be heeded
For I am not what you needed
Don't be like me
Be wise and see
That the love in your heart is what makes you good
Don't put on the darkness' hood
For the day love dies
Is the day the soul dies
And i don't want that for you my dear child

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By the Millions

There's a million things I wish I said
But it's too late now
You're already dead
There's a million places I wish we went to 
But it's too late now
There's nothing I can do
I should've said you're the world to me
But it's too late now
There's nothing left to see
I've walked a million miles since your grave 
and I tell myself
There's nothing left to save
I've seen a million people since you've left
and I tell myself
You're Death's greatest theft
There is no more reason to live
because now
I have nothing left to give

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Coming Clean

Tell me the truth
Why you hated me in my youth
Don't you dare lie
Why did you leave me here to die
What have I done
That's made you turn and run
Why have you let me down
Take me down to the river and let me drown
The one time I put my trust in you
You launch  your traitorous coup
So if you have the guts do it now
If you have the guts strike me down

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Happiness Extended Edition

You never know happiness until its gone
Telling your grandpa he'll never see another dawn
Watching him fade slowly away
Not even remembering you name there he lay
"You'll never see the light again" You say with but a tear in your eye
Seeing him slowly die
He asks who you are
You watch him wither away in the dark
You wish you could save him
But at that moment his skin becomes pale and he is stiff like a tree limb
You never know happiness until it dies 
Here with your child it lies
Seeing your child sick and frail
You knew one day his life would fail
But you never expected him to be taken so soon
Taken away on the seventh moon
You'll never see his smiling face
You'll never teach him how to tie his shoelace
You close and see him one last time before he's taken away
You never know happiness till its taken away
Struggling for the will to live another day
Seeing the death of so many people
Nothing but claws at the steeple
Your time in the desert taught you well
There's always a place for you in Hell
But forgiveness they won't give freely
Did you think that really?
They'll ask for money so god would forgive
So that happy you will live
You never know happiness till you start
Feeling the burn in your heart
The things you've seen
The lesson you learned some you glean
The anxiety is killing you dear friend
But happiness I cannot lend
Your strength is awe-inspiring 
But your heart is conspiring
To take away what you love
Take you down not above
You never know happiness till its turned
Watching what you've built burn
The hospital so cold and white
Thinking it serves you right
Dying with no comfort 
But you feel no hurt
You remember the time you had
and think life wasn't too bad
You remember when your grandpa gave you your first bike
You remember your son's shining eyes and how him you like
You remember in the army
The men were always hearty
Despite the desert gnarly
You remember happiness
Remember when you were happiest
Your life was the fullest
And as you lie here dying in my arms
I, Death, look at you and say i'm proud friend

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Salting the Earth

The sins of the fathers don't hurt us
We won't let them hold us back
We have so much to give
So as we stand on the hill
Watching the world burn away
Puffed up with pride we will fall
Live today for tonight we die, salting the earth
We ruin what we stand for
We tear the good to shreds but still
As we end the lives of those we protect we salt the earth
We burn the world down and salt the earth
We'll live and we'll die as hypocrites because we are human