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Amanda Kay Burke May 2021
Time is my very worst enemy
Stealing youth and my bliss
Forcing to look back in regret
All the things I now miss

Never saw the end coming
Thought life gave me more room
As I get older the faster I'm pulled
Death's infinite vacuum

Gazing into unsure future
Only a sliver of hope
Afraid to peek down
I'm walking a tightrope

Knew time was limited
Aware I am blessed
Many others would **** to be me
Somehow I'm still depressed

Let somebody else take my place
The problems that come with it too
Just wasting my time day after day
Wish I could start over new
I was stuck at the end so finally just left it at that
  May 2021 Amanda Kay Burke
Nobody
Sometimes inspiration is free
Other-times it costs you the world
In our abandon we seek
Divinity, eternity
And often the meaning
Of our words
Eludes even us
Are we an author?
A seeker?
A valiant warrior
Braving the darkness
Seeking for such elusiveness
It sets the mind free
Within that darkness
Lies the eternal
A place without form
A castle, a dungeon
And for the unwise
A prison without end
And only those
Well acquainted
With their own madness
May tread its murky waters
To pluck that fruit
Whose shape is an omnipresent
Kaleidoscope of meanings
And to solidify its form
And cast it onto sprawling page
This is our work
Our bottomless pit
Our greatest weakness
And our ultimate triumph.

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Reformatted version:

Sometimes inspiration is free
other-times it costs you the world
In our abandon we seek
Divinity, eternity
And often the meaning of our words
eludes even us
Are we an author?
A seeker?
A valiant warrior braving the darkness
seeking for such elusiveness
It sets the mind free
within that darkness lies the eternal
a place without form
a castle, a dungeon
and for the unwise, a prison without end
And only those well acquainted
with their own madness
may tread its murky waters
To pluck that fruit
whose shape is an omnipresent kaleidoscope of meanings
and to solidify its form
and cast it onto sprawling page
This is our work
our bottomless pit
our greatest weakness
and our ultimate triumph.
Amanda Kay Burke May 2021
I am bleeding out inside
Painfully torn apart
I wear a mask each day
Hiding my broken heart
Amanda Kay Burke May 2021
I continue waiting for the storm to end
Your raindrops to stop falling down
I think I must be fooling myself
Every time you let me drown
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