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Stephen Mayne Poem
Open your eyes and you will see
The beauty that surrounds us
Listen with your ears and here
The sounds that calm us
In a world that seems so cruel, dark and full of all our fears
All we really need is a new course to steer
So many people with all their problems hanging on a hook
There's still light, peace and joy if we only knew where to look
Why can't we raise our weary heads
Let it all go and become who we're meant to be instead
Stop hiding away from things you doubt
No more excuses, no more hanging about
Open your mind and you'll be free
This world can be a better place, you will see
A place that's not so dark and cruel
A place where light, love and peace surround us all
Date: 1999
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Stephen Mayne Poem
True love is like a wild rose
It can bring so much joy
Beauty and vibrance to behold
Then when you reach out to your hearts desire
The thorns cut deep and scar forever
Once plucked it can never be restored
The very thing you once adored
The rose will wilt and the colour will drain
A distant memory will be all that remain
Date 2015
Competition entry : Choose a topic
Heartbreak and loss
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Stephen Mayne Poem
It's time for the battle to end
Lay down your arms why can't we just be friends
Life wasn't meant to be this way
It's time for us to stop the fighting today
The young we bring into life must see
That peace is what we want to achieve
Its time for the battle to end
Lay down your arms why can't we just be friends
Life wasn't meant to be this way
It's time for us to stop the fighting today
The bloodshed has gone on to long
Why must the innocent be scorned
For what did they ever do wrong
It's time for the battle to end
Lay down your arms why can't we just be friends
Life wasn't meant to be this way
It's time for us to stop the fighting today
Open your eyes and look around
What have you achieved in this land
There's nothing but greed, misery and hate
Is this what we really want to relate
It's time for the battle to end
Lay down your arms why can't we just be friends
Life wasn't meant to be this way
It's time for us to stop the fighting today
Now's the time to find a better way
Restore the peace and hope we need
Just put an end to the fighting please
It's time for the battle to end
Lay down your arms why can't we just be friends
Life wasn't meant to be this way
It's time for us to stop the fighting today
Date: 1998
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Stephen Mayne Poem
Just wondering why
Just wondering when
Just wondering what is to be
Is it for me to hear
Is it for me to see
Is it just meant to be
What is expected of me
What is it I'm supposed to be
What is it to be free
Searching for life
Searching for the answer
Searching until I can search no more
Wanting to care
Wanting to share
Wanting to just be there
Just wondering if
Just wondering how
Just wondering what is meant to be
Date 2000
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Stephen Mayne Poem
The past will fade
The future will come
There's nothing more that can be done
Let it all go and get on your way
There's always gonna be another day
Date: 2009
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Stephen Mayne Poem
Camping beneath the shimmering stars
Makes me realise how insignificant we really are
The moonlight gently caressing the world outside a canvas door
Such a beautiful, calm picture, I often find myself longing for
In the wilderness, back to nature
Far from the ever growing lights of the town
Away from the hussle and bussle, far from every thing that makes me frown
The peace, the tranquillity
Time to consider your own reality
Following the natural cycles of the earth
Some how reconnects you to your own self worth
Sleeping from dusk till dawn
Being woken by the birds morning song
Date: 2005
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Stephen Mayne Poem
I've found my freedom
An epiphany happened in the night
Somethings woken in me
I've regained my sight
I've cut the shackles, ropes and restraints
Though not all physical
They added to my weight
I've let my mind go free
Let go of everything hindering me
Now impervious to my egos desires
I've found a true freedom
Fulfilling all I require
Date: 2017
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Stephen Mayne Poem
Can you tell me, who's the man behind the mask?
Who gives a clever illusion, of a created past.
We've painted his portrait, but will the face we painted last?
A shadowy figure cloaked in mystery, making us laugh.
Do you really know this person, whos play in which we've all been cast?
We listen to a poetic song, leading us on a dance, with a rhythm so strong, so fast.
We're all so happy to be deluded with his attention, as he sits in the limelight and basks.
But once again I yell from the crowd, do you know who's the man behind the mask?
We've been lapping up his stories, like dogs lapping tea from a fallen flask!
Shouldn't we even bring his colourful stories to task.
But no one else has actually stopped to even ask.
Who's the man behind the mask?
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Stephen Mayne Poem
I take a walk into the darkness
Deeper and deeper I go
Such courage, such enthusiasm
As I so boldly walk on a path I did not know
With every step I take
The light fading
The path winding
So very disorientating
A frightening feeling
Somehow realising
The demons are whispering
Dancing and prancing
Never seeing, never touching
But just there, behind my back
Waiting, deliberating, as to when I might snap
Feeling a little scared now
Thinking this idea, should've never been conceived
A way back now, is what I need
Maybe I should just stop
Is it time to turn back and run
But the curious darkness looms and beckons me on and on
The demons too whisper their song
Come and dance with us, on and on
You know you just want to belong
Then all of a sudden, all is gone
No light to see, nothing left, not even me
A skeleton left, where I used to be
My mind, my body, entrapped
When all I longed for, was to be free
I see now this isn't right
I really need to put up a fight
Return myself back to the light
The demons whispers are all but rubbish
All I need now, is my own good courage
Battling on and on
I'll find a better way
Living my life from day to day
Never looking back
But always remembering not to stray
Back to the place where my demons lay.
Date: 2017
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Stephen Mayne Poem
Come sit by the fire
Don't be a stranger
Come sit by the fire
Come close and feel warmer
Come sit by the fire
Let the light dance across your face
Come sit by the fire
No one here feels out of place
Come sit by the fire
Join in with the song
Come sit by the fire
It will soon be a new dawn
Come sit by the fire
There's no need to feel lonely
Come sit by the fire
Tell me your story
Come sit by the fire
We will all be friends
Come sit by the fire
Until this day draws to an end
Date: 2006
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