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Best Poems Written by Steven Starkey

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I Want To Go

Is there really a reason?
I've searched the only world i know
My mind, my soul
To no avail
My sorrow overcomes logic
And i am left longing
For the end
I may soon succumb
To my undesirable truth
Despite what i know
It's what i feel
That drives my self destruction
The condition of my psychological state
May very well take me
From everything

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Only Down

Here I am
Emotional disaster
Ruining what's left
Only going down
I don't want to survive
Nothingness

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Attempted Serenity

The flowers grew only on the far side of the river
It has been a lifetime since I sat peaceful and patient
and searched for a four leaf clover
The sky the most perfect blue
The clouds are bursting and go on into infinity
The air is brisk, Autumn is coming
The stream moves ever so slightly
Here in this grass on this riverbank
seems so serene
a calmness I rarely feel is about me
I breathe in deeply the clean crisp air
It fills and feels wonderful in my lungs
All the faint sounds combined create beauty
Hearing is the last sense to go when we die
I study the ants as one carries a dead brother
takes him deep in the tunnels
How would it feel to lack all emotion
Fear is a common enemy of us all
This happens every time
Thoughts invade my meditation
I re-center
I lay back and watch the sky
This would be better with someone
I wish it would rain

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Duality

I wanna go
God damn I wanna stay
Inevitable is the duality of man
I want silence
but I want to hear that one song
the one that gives me chills
makes me cry

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Afterward

Here it is again
that feeling of uncertainty
the chaos calling me
Creates a storm within
Fierce and heavy
No god to blame
the entire weight
of my solitary condition
collapses me
My doing
My burden

Her hands were dirty
Stained with black ink
Eyes wide, deep, brown
Her name I do not know
Fingers bare
No commitments
She seemed so beautiful 
the perfect amount of imperfection
I keep this feeling
Like any other
Inside, guarded

Afterward
I walked away
Alone
I always fail
at social situations 
No friends
the world is lonely

She barely notices me
probably just enough
to see I am nothing
I'm sick of solitude
In need of someone
Something....

Ahhhhh!! 
a cry of pure frustration
Longing for it
Wanting it so desperately
Feeling, fearing
impossibility

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Continue

Going to sleep each night in my own bed
Realization that there is life after addiction
A real reason to continue fighting
Tears falling in happiness
I am learning to accept
Tonight the stars will shine for me
Under blue sky is my place
Deceptiveness flees
Everything is new to me

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Number 72

Don't make me make that decision right now
I'm not prepared
Besides I am leaving tonight
to where, I do not know
Anywhere is better than right here
right now
I'm on my knees again
She must be tired of my sorrow and guilt and shame
It pulls on me
Calling my name time and again
Everyone leaves this wreckage alone
In the end
My melancholy got the best of me
and we only have right now
Heroin take a bow
You put on one hell of a show
but now I  must go
Sometimes you must walk away
From what you love
or incinerate
I ran away out of fear
You followed and you met me there
and I take that shot at death again
but the reaper won't let me in
so I must carry this cross
another five-thousand days
You take away the best of me
and we only have right now
Addiction take a bow
It was a real good show
Why is it I can't just go?
I know I should walk away
from what I love 
or disintegrate
I know I should walk away
but I love you 
and how you incinerate

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Deserving

I want to run away from this place
     The mushrooms grew in a perfect circle
My fear is of myself
     I have heard there is evil inside those rings
So I can never escape it
     Even seeing one, a bad omen
It is spidered through my insides
     I take a deep breath
It is odious
     I step to the middle
Fear fills me up
     I am frozen, paralyzed
and it spews from me
     Is this evil I feel?
Infectious, it spreads to any near
     Yes
I am a disease
     I contaminate
and I destroy
     I am an evil force
I deserve to die
     I deserve to die