OPEN MIC ENCORE I The Love Poems

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Tragic Demise

Lindsey McMullin

o blind fool! Can thou not see!

If joined with her, you can never be.

Will you heed my warnings?

Or presume my alerts come from jealousy.

Death part my name unto thine lips,

If ever I fib with accusations like this.

Denounce thy self of thine foolish thoughts,

Before my cautions enact their parts.

Your truth of love hath come to be shown,

But never would I kill your love...

...For the benefit of my own.

O speak! Those precious words of mine!

I've loved you since our wake of time.

Creation will never exceed on my part,

This sorrow I loathe will remain in my

heart.

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Fear sits by but it

I won't let it control me like it did the "lie"

I try, I've tried, and I'm trying still... to let this ride...

I know thoughts of me can become trife

FYI- I still one day want to become your wife

If you still want me in your life...

But you might fly

Away because here is no longer where you wish to stay

Everything will be okay...

Even if things are not the same

We will continue to move even if it rains on this parade

Love you sweetie... love you today and always

Brenda

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Our lips meets... barely incomplete...

I immensely begin to feel this heat that creeps all over me

You smile you know my style besides it's been awhile

You know I want you to hit me from behind even make me cry

Your touch brings total rush I call your name... I love playing this game

Bleu Tongue

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WHO WOULD'VE KNOWN?

Priscilla Diaz

With every lonely sparkle in my eye

It seemed to be that time was flying by

Who would have known that this was meant to be?

I never would have thought that you'd be loving me.

I never thought anybody would love me without feeling obligated

But I guess those thought are just out-dated

Now here I am with this amazing love you've helped me create

Exasperatingly I still remember our first date.

It should be considered a crime

That you stole my heart in such a short time

But I'm happy just knowing you're mine!

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The hate of love

Cody Don Ramer

I hate this

this feeling of longing

This feeling for love

the love that can not come

I hate the distance

The distance of love

I hate the thought of you

I hate every thing about u

But I love the hate that hates you

And as time goes by

I may I may not forget you

But always there will be a soft spot

in this eternal dark whole that they call a

heart…… … …….

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" Without yourself "

Vanya Karkovich, 2001.

Only pain left with you, in you, around you. I shall never

see you again with the look -

I used to see, expectant, questing, wishing at least to

be in contact. It is a sad fact that you are different,

that you are not in yourself, that you love all you do not

love, search for that you have not, know all that in

fact you do not know that all that is not given.

One morning you gulped down poisoned milk

In the house of babel, of sobs of the despairing, all those

that would correct their incoherence.

On a cold morning you fell down fifty steps

and were left for dead, like slaughtered deer, sixty

kilometres away from the yellow house where you have

screamed each tormented night. Demons would have been your

lovers, and a poet killed you in the poem "DAMNATION IN

INSANITY".

And now your grave is flowerless; desperately grey,

restless, exhausted Lassie sleeps with you.

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As I lay me down to cry!
Andrea Castle

As I lay me down to cry,

I pray "Please Lord just let me die,"

You keep me here every day,

And yes I hate it in every way.

I'm sick of not knowing anything to say,

Besides "Should I take my life this very day?"

A lot of people say I shouldn't die,

But I truly think it's all a lie.

I'd love to just take this knife

And end all my strife.

How could he treat me this bad,

It's no wonder why i'm always mad.

He claimed to care,

but we're those feelings really there?

I feel like scum in this pond,

I can't go on living my life like some happy love song.

Yeah I know he doesn't care

And that we have no memories to share,

But why is my love so strong,

For someone that's so wrong?

Why does all this happen to me?

Can't anyone see,

Im dying each time they mention his name

Every time I see him it's all the same.

I'm so full of doubt

And there's no other way out.

So Lord im doing your job,

Because I can no longer wait,

Please oh Lord open up your gate,

And now watch me die,

As I lay me down to cry.

leaves start to wither

tears start to fall

dying love emotion

bleeding heart and soul

here for one last kiss

ending my life of bliss

by the time that you'll be gone

i'll try to be a man

to stand this hurt and pain

as i cry amidst the rain

Adrianne Estose

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Loneliness

Mindy

When there is no light

and all is dark

When sweet love so bright

is no longer there

When you long to take flight

just tp fond you have lost your wings

When there is no fight

to even attempt to win

When melancholy's bite

has you paralyzed

When there's no great height

to which you can climb

When no words to write

will come to mind

When you cry out at night

and there's no one to hear

When you scream in fright

and there's no one to comfort you

Now that is loneliness

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LOVE

Candace Phillip

Why can't I love?

Why can't I be loved?

There is love in the air

But no love for me

I want to love but scared of it

I am scared of being loved

Or just being hurt

I had a love but he hurt me

I hurt him

I want him to be my love

I want him and him only

I know I can't have him

So I look for a guy that's like him

Can't find a damn soul

He is the only love for me

The only person in this world that could be him

I is guys that are in to me but they are not me

And I am not for them

Why can't I move the hell on?

Why can't I get him the hell out of my head?

Is it because he's the one?

I HATE being by myself!!!

I hate being lonely

I feel empty without someone

But then I am picky on who I want to be with

So how can I find someone like that

What I think?

HELL NO!!!!!!!!

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but i do!

im not supposed to love you

im not supposed to care

im not supposed to live my life wishing you was there

but i know that i love you

and i hope that someday you can love me too

by kerry louise brown

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friendly glow

by sharni

light a candle of friendship,

never let the flame burn low,

for all the world can be lit

by one's friendly glow.

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Missing

R. Andrew Daniel-Drake, 2002

Find Me.

Please.

I seem to have misplaced Myself,

and I cannot recall where

I saw Me last,

Or where I set Me down.

Circumstance continually conspires

To keep Me from me,

In a confounding, connived contrivance of

Coquettish keep-away,

Hiding Me from my own eyes.

Have you, perhaps,

Seen Me?

Either on a milk carton,

Or wandering aimlessly

Through a department store,

Looking for the warm, safe hand

That will take Me

To me?

I must be around here somewhere.

Where else could I be?

I've looked in every nook,

And in every cranny.

Am I behind a drapery?

Or under a table?

Am I in a shadow?

Or am I in plain sight?

Have I been here all the time,

Or have I gone the way of

Brigadoon?

I seem to have forgotten

How to read the map

That leads me to

The "X" that marks the spot,

Where the Me that is

Waits for you

To find Me.

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Resqueboat.

Elvira van Buren

She's unreasonable, insecure and mean

the first to give up

when life comes in between

her only wish was to matter

but her self-esteem is totally gone

and it won't get any better

She wants to be like all teens

she wants to enjoy every breath

at only sixteen she's forgotten what that means

she just wants to be dead

Her self hate made her miss the rescue boat

it won't be back for long

she sticks her fingers in her throat

trying to make up for all she did wrong

To make herself feel a little better

she screams at everyone

she's the suicide letter

from someone who's long gone

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EARLY NOVEMBER, OUTSIDE

Joseph Welch

Gray sky clings, looms low

over cold granite. Hives

of the educated huddle inside

Huddle amongst brown bottles

and flickering boxes.

The gray will not break

for several months now.

I stand in biting air,

Snow coming down,

Pelting, Taste of reality

As it hits my skin.

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GONE

Ben Egan

Life dissipates, everything I knew is gone, no more traces in my blood, I hit the bottle hard. Transient nostalgic feelings hurts like the blade, the ether conspires to destroy me. Self imposed exile, my blood runs cold.

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Matthew

by:april martinez

people take it upon themselves to judge others

who they don't know at all

ignorant words coming from ignorant mouths

causing society to fall

we have all been judged by others

for so very long

lord please give me the power to ignore them

and the strength to prove them wrong

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The Faults and Impurities of People

Chris Branscum

To which we all must conceive,

To what we all should believe,

What is good and what is evil,

Never stands a chance against rightness.

Today to which we all proclaim,

Bad, evil, and also shame,

Is never right and should be

Shunned forever in the pits

Of Hades. Believe in the healing

Of the ill. Work, toil, of

The labor, to claim the money

Which is rightfully

Ours to reach above

Our Foremost, farthest

Stars

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An Unfortunate Awakening

Keith Massey

I open my eyes and breathe you in.

Why do some things end before they begin?

As I worship you in my arms in the milky twilight,

We both know nothing will come from this night.

The desire and passion released this evening

Are all forgotten in an unfortunate awakening.

What did I do? What did I say?

I dream only of you, day after day.

Or is it you? Does someone take your place?

Or do I simply dream of a beauty without a face?

Why did you leave me alone in the dark debating,

Over the love that was lost in an unfortunate awakening?

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I stayed up all night to watch you sleep,

so if I am dozing in my oatmeal

don't look at me with cruel eyes

I only want to know your beauty,

I only want to look upon your face

soft with sleep.

J.Fietz

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No faults are mine!

Teena Watson

You said that, aren't no time for you to be putting blame on me. What have I done wrong to you? What did I do hurtful? See...You did something wrong and too harm to me.

Man! I thought we where good friends, you told me you promised to keep the secret from the talks we have had since. But now you see I'd better think off cause now that I can see that you aren't my good friend like a big or little sister/brother.

Right now, the answer back to you is why I don't even talk, write, call or e-mails you is because of what I've heard now are rumor all about me and I know you are the only person who is liking for all the these troubles between me and the other instead us.

Nowhere although my life times, a best friend will never trust again. Moreover I would never trust them but will always have forgive.

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HELPING A FRIEND

by Ginger Dorsey

If your friend was in trouble,

would you help them out?

If your friend was being chased by the cops,

would you not shout?

If your friend was doing drugs and alcohol,

would you help her or him?

If you friend was drowning,

would you die for them?

I WOULD.

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PEARL

Benjamin Taylor

to sleep you went

not to wake

your fun is gone

your hurt is left.

love of people

as full as the sun

on the beach, now you run.

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TO BE ACCEPTED
Twana Deas

I try hard to be accepted,

judgmental people,

i can't take it,

harsh words said,

voices in my head,

analyze me,

captivate me,

include me in the plan,

help me maintain stability,

hold my hand,

guide me,

emotionally,

physically,

mentally,

my soulmate your knowledge,

that leads to logic,

has captured me within,

my soul has opened up,

you gave me the strength to love again,

patience is a virtue,

that's true,

look its brought me closer to you,

intelligence is what i seeked,

i found you,

love is what i sought,

i have you.

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Don't be afraid that I will go -

As well, ask the moon to leave the sky;

It isn't possible! So you should know,

You'll never hear me say goodbye.

Don't be afraid that love will run

Into the arms of someone as fair;

No one's as fair compared to you.

And believe me, I more than care

About your life and the happiness

That I can see you've found in me.

Think of the love you've filled me with

And you will find reality

Enhancing the love I give to you

When we're apart and when we touch;

Don't be afraid, whatever you do,

Because I vow to you this much:

I'll be here through sun and rain,

Laughter, tears, and pain and sorrow,

Holding you close and loving you more

With each and every tomorrow.

Joe

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Why?

By Emilie Smith

I guess I ?m ugly.

I?m always alone.

Thought I had a love, but he

Never really loved me.

Then he found another and left me,

Why am I always alone?

Is it my destiny?

Why?

I am a good,

caring person, caring an affectionate,

gifted and talented.

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MISUNDERSTOOD

By Dark Ravenwolfe

Misunderstood, Shunned, Hated... these are just a few terms "normal" human beings use to describe me. They fear me because they do not understand me. Am i not real? do i not bleed? No! i do not exist to society, I am nothing but a dark silhouette against the pale moon. A pale emotionless figure, hair dark as night itself, long and flowing that blows wildly with the evenings breeze. Standing there watching the population kill itself on money and greed, I realize I know something that they don't know... And I laugh to myself thinking about it. But i will never say what exactly that fact of information I know is, no not at all. These ignorant morons can figure it out for themselves, that is if they really want to know. Such simple minds these human beings are. Sleep, eat, procreate, spreading more of their kind, more filth, more wastefulness, I continue to stand motionless with a look of semi-amusement on my face, I open my mouth and laugh, I laugh at this joke called civil! ization and this illusion called life. Just let me be myself, why cant you let me? I am so misunderstood.

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Trinket Box:

Dawn Cole

Once it begins,

it must not

end.

We come openly

and swiftly into

rooms of different

sizes.

Speech blurry,

Visions heard.

Conceal the box

of violet wishes.

Perceive the scent

of yellow.

For once it begins,

it must not

end.

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ANGELS

Shannon Fancher

Have you ever wondered,

what happens to those who've died?

they become angels

and are always by our side.

Whether you're lonely or sad,

or even when you're fine,

an angel will protect you

even if you gave no sign.

She will come down gracefully,

to look upon and watch you

and make sure you don't get hurt

in anything you do.

Remember that my friends

when you're far away from me

an angel will come to see you

and help to comfort thee.

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PENNY

By Wirmwood

I wish-

I could love me as much as you do.

I wish-

Then remember why I don't anymore.

I'm leaving this desert of salted lovers.

I'm leaving like no one has left before.

I wish-

I wasn't leaving again.

I leave-

Then remember why I don't anymore.

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Love was so blind, right from the start,

That day I remember you captured my heart,

That first time I told you I loved you so much,

I hungered emotionally the day we could touch,

That time came around, at first we did meet,

There's nothing could ever, those feelings compete,

Of love that I felt, with that first lasting kiss,

Its only right now that I know what I miss,

To want you, to have you is my greatest need,

More of this love is just what we need,

Its not much more longer, that we have to wait,

The loneliness hurts, missing the closeness I hate,

But we both know now what we have in store,

And that was decided by fate and Loves law,

Won't be long now before were together,

Our set in stone feelings lasting forever.....

Gary Cooke

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"Not Enough Time"
Jennifer Bishop

I sit and wonder why?

Why did he take you?

What was it that deserved this?

Never got to know you

We never got to share that tight bond.

Yes we were sisters

Felt like we were strangers

Now you're gone.

You helped me realize

How short life can be.

There are so many things

I never got to tell you,

I'm happy you're my big sister.

The worst thing is Brandy

I never got a chance to say good-bye.

~*~

Crystle Robles

Love is river

That flows down

A steam.

At times it could

Be tranquil as

Hard as it seems.

But then there are

Times when

The river will shake

And the differences

Between land and the

River will start

to quake.

Over all the shaking

And quaking that is

Caused the river calms

Down and the problems

And differences are soon

Resolved.

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WHAT IS LOVE

By: Katherine Davis

Emotions are only feelings,

yet feelings are more than words.

Imagine someone reading your thoughts.

Thoughts are more than dreams.

Could you see being without them?

Dreams are all that is surreal,

and yet are nothing more than beautiful thoughts.

Love is truly beautiful and is more than any expressions could ever be dealt.

Love cannot be told.

It is not words, thoughts, dreams, or feelings.

Oh, why is love so easily felt,

but yet... emotions are just feelings.

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MISTAKES

brandy brand

everyone knows, everyone but you

i told then all by mistake

i wish you had a clue

that my life is a fake

they laugh and joke about you

but you are what completes me

i have yet to let you know

how i really feel

but when i finally do

i hope it's your heart i steal

i would do anything for you to see

what you mean to me

how i wish i could turn back time

aat least four years in the past

maybe then you would be mine

everytime i see you

i look into your eyes

and i seem to get a clue

you know my life is now full of lies

four short years ago life was so clear

i thought i loved someone else

but now i realize all along

it's you i'v always wanted to be near

everyone needs a second chance

i just hope you think so too

anytime i see you i want dance

i want to dance with you

i'v been told beware

you are not right for me

to all of them myself i can take care

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Without You

Rachel Spencer

i woke up this morning with thoughts of you

woke up happy then i turned blue

i came to remember you were no longer around

made my smile turn into a frown

if only i cold hold you one more time

if only i could again make you mine

i am not asking for forever, just one more day

to have you around and tell you what i wanted to say

tell you i love you without holding back

shower you with all the feelings you thought i lacked

to feel your skin when we make love all night

to tell you how you make even the darkest day seem bright

oh the things i missed out on and the things we could have shared

if only i would have shown you my heart; if only i had dared

i guess now we will have to talk in my dreams

and make it real for all it seems

for without you i am not whole

cause when you left you took with you my heart and soul

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YOU

Jade Borley

I love the way you laugh and smile

Whenever you're around it's all worthwhile

When i'm down you make me laugh

Telling me stuff about you're past

I love the way you wear your caps

And where you fight with the toilet taps

I love it when you stare at me

You don't care who's there to see

Whenever you're around there's always a pound

Of your sweet loving heart

That's always cared from the very start!!!!!!!

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Whistle and I will run to you,

Call and there I will be in a flash,

So fast my heels will be aflame,

My heart singing your name,

My pulses quicken,

I dream of you at night.

Oh I miss you, oh I need you my love,

Dare I wish for just one thing,

That is to be held and loved,

By someone as good as you.

My love I have waited for me an eternity,

To have someone like you in my life,

And here you are what shall I do,

Do I reach for you my hearts desire,

Or do I wait for you.

Tell me in words so sweet what I am to do my love,

To make it so we never part,

Never be lonely, be always together,

Our love shimmers in the night sky.

I saw you that one night my heart stood still,

My life was full I'm am no longer alone,

Oh I cant ever thank you,

Enough my love for finding me,

For believing in me.

For giving me hope for the future,

At last I can say I am truly happy,

You fill my soul with your sweetness,

With your presence,

Your voice, your touch.

Oh I am so full of you inside my soul,

I wish so much for it to shine out to show,

That true love if sought will be found,

I wish it to every soul in the world.

For all the lonely people in the world,

There is hope in this life,

And at your lowest know this it does end,

The pain goes and your soul will live again.

sats

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Flying

khaili

i'd love to be able to fly

right up into the sky

i'd fly with the birds in the fine air

with feathers instead of hair

i'd fly around the world

i'd fly write up to you

i'd fly over the big ocean

I wouldnt take any poison

i'd love to fly I sometimes cry

and one day were all going to die

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A Haiku to Think About

Rachel Szymczak

eyes engulfed in tears

crying in your sad lonely heart

you're gone- i'm not here

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Stop and look around.

There is much to see out there.

Start your adventure.

Alex Renshaw

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Sun rises again

The start of another day

futures to be held

Zach Parrish

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Time passes me by

As the hands tick on the clock

Soon my time will come.

Courtney Treharn

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There is a flag of

red, white, and blue swaying

in the air so free.

Cassie Chivington

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I love to hunt

Drawing my bow and aiming

The deer is my prey

Brandon Bunt

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Doors are left open

Some are shut right in your face

Different choices

April Harber

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BREEZE

Allison DePrey

Gentle and swaying

Whispering her quiet songs

Cool against your face.

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I got a new dog

the little puppy is cute

except when he bites

Jim Sullivan

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The sun has set

Its time to jump into bed

Relaxed and dreaming

Susane

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In her expressions

I lose all reality

content forever

John Forsythe

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The thought hit his brain

It was driving him insane

how can he be blamed?

Mike Lapsley

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loud screaming students

I race to get my work done

at last, the bell rings

Andrew

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Just like a car crash

I had nothing left to say

Everything is begun

Josh

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Time:
Liz

A new day arrives

the sun rises and it sets

A day has gone by

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I love her great laugh

I love her wonderful smile

she lights up my day

Adam Barry

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"...STOP."

Megan Pinkston

Silky black material, softly caressing my skin; whispering to me secrets I do not understand...Yet I spot him, as he stands alone in the empty dark night, with my eating heart grasped tightly in his hands...

It is yet still beating, with my innocent blood still surging through every bulging vein...I also see a terrified little girl standing before him with a deep sorrowful tear-stained face; crying tears of blood, slowly dissolving her smile among new pain...

Her itching at her skin, burning, urgently ripping at her until all her strength is drained...So feareful and terrified, something eating away at her; I see through her eyes, feel her pain, share her fears and dreams...

I again spot him, with something still held closely to his steady body, with my heart trembling in his white as snow hands...His eyes so dark and coldly stare into ones soul, seeming ot enable him to read through me; his eyes so filled with anger hate fire...

Blazing fire with slashes of red lightening stabbing a wound into one's heart, my heart; He's dressed in all black dark clothing matching the pitch-black veil of night that is blanketed over my eyes, making it more difficult to see...

He stands there, alone, waiting...It's about that time that I realize that this isn't a nightmare or a vision...I am looking into a mirror; it was merely a memory...

A memory that I thought I had forgotten, that I had tried so hard to forget...The man in dark was at one time my savior, but then had betrayed me; the bloody tears I cried, for he had sired them into my soul for these memories to never leave me...

He stole my heart, but what he had done after that is far more worse than pain, he demolished it and shattered my dreams...that little girl was my sister, I had been there to watch...just standing there, in horror, confused and crying so silently that I didn't realize it myself...

I didn't know at all what to do, this mirror let me back to reality of what a fool I have really been, I have always been...that I must put a stop to it...

This mirror, are these memories really flashing before my eyes?; at this point I wish I had not any eyes in which to see them...But it all starts to come to me, become clear...

This has all happened in a split second...as I see the sharp blade I hold in my right hand, the large bleeding gash in my left wrist; I am so shocked that I unbelievingly drop the blade to the ice cold ground...

Which is now nothing but a pool of blood on the floor with the imprints of the tiles that lie under aways...The streams of blood running, streaming down my arm...

I am so alarmed I try to let our a scream; nothing escapes my mouth, so bitter and dry...obviously have I lost my voice...I feel so faint, But now my vision starts to blurr...

Things start to spin, ground becomes unsteady, like the waves of the flowing ocean gently, freely crashing upon the warm shore...The light so bright...

Coming from my bathroom light, bright as ever, leaving what's left of my sight but swirling colors and an instant image of the gorgeous horizon; that I fear I shall never redeem or see again...

I suddenly feel a large pai hit my backneck and my backed spine, I guess I have fallen to the floor I dreaded, the same floor that I feared I shall never pick myself up from...Things get darker...

I guess this is what death must feel like...though this whole time I have felt no pain physically, I guess I have grown numb to this, not only my skin but my mind; but the sorrow and guilt start to build up, I try to let a tear fall, but they refuse to escape from my shuddering eyes...

I lay still on the floor,I hear nothing, everything pitch-black, I feel nothing...Though the last thing I see is a picture of your exuberant face...

It seems in front of my eyes, but it is really in my mind...as it paints a wondrous picture in my mind...

As I feel my eyes slowly droop shut...

And hear my last breathe,

STOP.

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Bullied

Jason Cjejbrown

Why Did I give my life up to you

When i could have just stood up to you-

Death comes to the who don't take a stand-

So take my Hand Rope or knife

is pease really worth your life

Hanging there with an empty stair

Chilling screams Break the air

Why Did I give my life up to you

COuld I just have stood up to you

Death comes at the greatest cost

given unto those that are lost

When the fruit of life is burnt away

The tormented give their lives up willingly.

~*~

OPEN MIC ENCORE I The Love Poems And Darker Moments

OPEN MIC ENCORE I
The Love Poems And Darker Moments