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 Feb 2013 Polly o
LD Goodwin
I can not find the off button,
I can not stop the madness of the mind.
The thoughts come and stay like relatives,
they replay and replay their little games in my head
and change up the rules frequently so I can never fully learn to play.
Like a military officer they have to constantly outrank me,
and show me who is in command.
They lie to me and make me think that there is peace on the other side of the hill.
Just one more year and then you'll be happy,
lose just a few more pounds and then you'll be OK.
Ride a thousand miles more this year and you can cheat death.
Rearrange the events in your life for this person and they will love you.
Make this amount of money and you can have a day off.
They lie to me, these voices.
There isn't anything out there,
there isn't anything on the other side.
How insane it is to think that they know what is going on.
How incredible it is that I can look at these lying voices and see the truth.
For I can not fight it, I can not turn it off.
I must accept their insanity..... so I can remain sane.
Harrogate, TN
 Feb 2013 Polly o
DieingEmbers
Classical music and art
made dumb
by
the poets words
 Feb 2013 Polly o
S
You run up to me in the hall
  Ask me what's up
    I begin to reply, but
      I see you run
       You run up to her
       And that reminds me of my place
      I am your confidence
     I am your will power
    I am your support
   I am your friend
But that's all
  You still lead me on
    You still claim you have feelings for me
      You still bring up the things that we once did
        You still say that I'm beautiful
          You still make me feel special
            But I hate you so much
           I hate your love and affection
          I hate the way you treat me
        You treat me like ****
      But this is all a lie
    I only hate what you make me do
  I only hate that you make me love you
 Feb 2013 Polly o
Jackson Freeman
When daylight left and sky turned black,
we returned to our warm and cozy shack
to find, Oh my! The light left on
after several months of the two of us gone.

The bulb burned bright a gentle glow,
feeding the flowers that near the window did grow.
Without a Sun the lilies would die,
but the bulb gave light through the dark, cold night.

I went for the switch but you grabbed at my arm
and asked why on this light I would wish harm.
Decided we to not extinguish the rays
so as to give light to flowers on sunless days.
 Feb 2013 Polly o
Erica Forever
A lesson not yet learned, I look back
into shards of memories scattered in my tracks
this pressure, my shock emulating my diction
a silent sound, all that isn't constricted
my left brain separating the facts.

I still feel the moment, that new lesson
discovery, not always a progression
had I not succumbed to your power
I'd never remember that hour
looking back, praying for an eraser
but even now you have never looked safer
or more destructive.

Even with the facts I find
sanity banished from my mind
thoughts of you trickling into my subconscious
someone killed my failing conscience
your eyes like beautiful knives
your arms stealing me from reprieve
I could never say no.

No, pain is not worthy
to describe my condition
to discover my world
simply part of your fiction
I would rather be lost
than again be broken by you.
 Feb 2013 Polly o
Saul Ramiez
O' Horrid love; despaired as I
Please take no more from me
For thou has taken much tonight
As thou has made them flee
And I will rise just as I've done
The past crates, the future comes
                  And I will rise
                  And I will rise
Just as the restless morning sun

O' Horrid love; despaired as I
You've done enough to show
As in my restless nights I cry
Your mission is to grow
And so I've lost in all your jest
I have been wounded for the best
                  And so I've lost
                  And so I've lost
But I know well that it's a test

O' Horrid love; despaired as I
I see now your despair
To wish and hope, with much a'try
To build with nothing there
As you unfold your greatest plan
You suffer tragedies at hand
                  As you unfold
                  As you unfold!--
You lose no hope for those who stand
 Feb 2013 Polly o
Saul Ramiez
In this grassy ground he lay
His body rests without dismay
To see that he now holds no sorrow
Will give me hope yet for tomorrow
Beneath this ground lay he in peace
Beneath here lay O'l Grey Maurice
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