Daniel A Gabbard

Daniel A Gabbard Apr 1

I had six lives.
Five, which were caged,
One, which I raged.
None as fulfilling as the last.

Alas,
I am here again.
For the seventh isn’t my end,
But the beginning.
For vanity’s grip —
Death’s grip has played my truth.

To see,
Or not to see.
To flee,
Or not to flee.
The future waits for no one.

In repetition,
A new future leads.
On a little ship,
I read the waves that bound me.

A scope in hand,
An empty map to meed.
With sheer will,
And the growing determination is all I need.

#journey #determination #transformation #hope #rebirth #selfdiscovery

Daniel A Gabbard Apr 1

A Reminder to Keep

Death is a reminder that I’m alive.
Depressed, not skive.

To feel a grasp till I not,
I shall do —for what I can’t.
Seeing my tree grow with rot,
my roots shall grasp —for all has spent.
For growth in stagnation,
I have found my revelation.

For the clouds of today are swept away,
I will bathe —oh lil’ light, to find my way.
For in darkness, I crawl —inch by inch,
every single day;
The moon of dark has finally left its pitch.
Crawling— To find you, oh lil’ light, I pray.

A reminder for those who are lost.

#depression #hope #growth #light #struggle #resilience

Daniel A Gabbard Apr 1

The Crazy Man

The line between madness,
The line between normality,
The price to pay for loneliness;
I ought to pay with sincerity.

In a world of madness,
The normal are insane,
The right are arcane,
And the abused are ridiculed by sadness.
I ought these days to go aflame,
For now, my madness, needs no blame.

There is no notes to be.

#madness #loneliness #reflection #isolation #selfreflection #innerstruggles #existentialism

Daniel A Gabbard Mar 26

The Eternal Dire

A life of many,
A life of not.
To know any,
To know rot.
I have seen,
for what I have not.
I have done to know,
That I cannot.
Escape my rage,
For I have wrot,
Is my own cage.
A nightmare,
That I broken.
A sage of mirrors,
For I have sought.
No reflection,
No dedication,
Anything I have knot.
Everything is futile,
For it is eternally mine.

I had some musings of a circle and entrapment, to live like one’s died, so I wrote this poem.

#existential #reflection #struggle #futility #nightmare #self #identity #despair #philosophy #tragic

Daniel A Gabbard Mar 26

An Anomaly to See

To see it, defines what it cannot,
It brings itself for what is not.
It has knotted its way from futility.
Now it is reality.
From henceforth, you know not,
To see it defies its knot.

I pondered on how the mundane can create absurdity. So, the goal of this poem was to show the existence from the mundane can create absurdity. Though subtle, it is such an anomaly to see, as it is reality.

#anomaly #existential #inquiry #reality #philosophy #paradox #surreal #self #absurd #reflection

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