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It's safer in the middle
It's really plain to see
If someone tries to pick me off
They shoot others before me

A platoon is led by leaders
Some who aren't around
While those of us out marching
Get picked off without a sound

You know it may sound selfish
Listen up, it isn't dumb
It's safer in the middle
Than with the flag or with the drum

It's safer in the middle
At the back you're in the hunt
If the parade should turn around
You now are at the front
 Oct 2017 Danielle
Elrow Swift
You who goes by "Lonely"
Yes you, who reads these rhymes
Please pause here for a moment
I won't take much of your time

You see my friend, I'm lonely too
In the dark with paper and pen
So I'm writing you this poem
and signing it "Your Friend"

Though I'll prob'ly never see you
nor ever know your name
I do not need to see your face
nor know your cash and fame

I do not care what color you are
how short or tall or fat
I'm weary of all these parties and creeds
So, for a moment, forget all of that

Yes you, dear friend, forget with me
Inhale this moment serene
where we are not opinions or castes
Just two humans with two glowing screens

Be human with me, simple and pure
For a moment breathe deep and feel free
then should you have the time, and a halfway good rhyme
Perhaps write a poem for me.

Signed,
Your Friend
This one isn't great, but I don't really care. I would normally throw something like this away, but the afterimage of hope made me wonder if maybe it would strike a chord with someone somewhere.  I promise to post more polished verse in the future, but all the same, thank you for reading. -ES
 Sep 2017 Danielle
Pagan Paul
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Threading dainty upon eggshells
a free spirit dances lightly.
Passing through and in between
to mesmerise the casual ******.
Her smile, with soft collision,
scatters colour on dim memory.
Her presence, autumn made flesh,
stirs the stones of ancient thought.
Shining gems of mute understanding
sparkle for her tapestry mind.
Casual silver lines of wisdom
weave her playful astral patterns.
Reaching coyly beyond old walls,
lips silent, holding unspoken secrets.
Her eyes framed with amusement
taking shy pleasure from grace.

© Pagan Paul  (2017)
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At this delicate juncture
In our LOVE's journey
Let us promise to hold
Each other's hand steadfastly
Let us not even think of
Ever leaving LOVING each other

Otherwise, the flowers, the bees,
the wind, the clouds, the rains
The sun and the moon, the stars
Everything on this planet &
Earth's existence will forget
Their roles and start searching
For our "oneness" of LOVE

If by mistake
If we lose our-selves in life
And miss out on
LOVING each - other
Remind us and bring us back
To LOVE each other
Let us promise,
We will come back
to LOVE  each other

So wherever we are,
However far we stay
Let us promise to be patient
Wait for each other,
And not lose our heart

At this delicate juncture
In our LOVE journey
Let us promise to hold
Each other's hand steadfastly
Let us not even think of
Ever leaving LOVING each other

It may happen that
When we are physically away
We might be driven to
Chasing success, career & money
Thus let us decide that whatever may be
We will never forget each other
We will be together in LOVE,
Under all circumstances
Our abode will always
Remain each other's heart
Till we are alive, until we die

There is no chance now
That someone or anyone else can
Take your place in my heart
Your soul image is engraved in me
Your heart reflects my soul within

This is the ultimate truth
Without our consent
The "LOVE-happening" has happened
No one can change our fate in LOVE
Not even us
So, let us remember that
We will be together - forever

Whatever sadness of longing,
Let us be happy
Let us always LOVE each other
Let the candle of our LOVE
Burn eternally in our hearts
In that way we'll never be lonely,
Living within each other's being

Just take care that in sadness
We should not lose hope
Please do not lose your last-breathe
Please wait for me dear...
I will come to hold your hand
And let you dissolve your soul
In my hug, My embrace, my cuddle
You head resting on my lap
Your face pressed to my *****
Listening to your heart-beats
Within my heart

At this delicate juncture
In our LOVE's journey
Let us promise to hold
Each other's hand steadfastly
Let us not even think of
Ever leaving LOVING each other





That day I woke up
And realized
I have lost my breathe

I looked for myself in the mirror
And I could not see me
I had lost my BEING
Who was this robber?

I tried to smile and
I could not find my smiles

After a while my tears dried too
But I cried a lot without tears too
Who stole my tears?

I searched for my words
And I realized that
I've lost all of it except...
The only words that I spoke now
Were words of YOUR praise
Was your Name-chants
Who are you my dear burglar?

I lost my life
I lost my work
I lost my dreams
I lost my causes

Someone stole my sleep
Someone stole my dreams
Someone stole my daylight
Someone stole my sunshine
Someone stole my sparkle
Someone stole my light

WHO STOLE ALL OF ME?

The LOVE that I thought
I possessed within
Was stolen without my consent
Without my permission

Now I see my LOVE residing in
My thief's heart
Whose heart is that anyways?
I wonder
Mine or my BELOVEDz?

And all these has
Left me with what?
A singular feeling of
LOVE, Love, love
LOVING, Loving, loving
YOU, You, you...

Now I do not want anything back
Of what you've stolen from me
By stealing everything of me
You have kept me within YOU

You stole my LIFE
You stole my LOVE
Now you are living my life
Now you are loving my LOVE

That's why
I LOVE my thief, I LOVE my burglar
I LOVE YOU my BELOVEDz

Hope I had a few more things
To offer for stealing
Because the LOVE
Exchanged through stealing
Is ingrained on our hearts
Now it can not be stolen ever by anyone

I & BELOVEDz & I
BELOVEDz & I & BELOVEDz
Live within each other

That, no one can steal that!

That's why we LOVE the
"Stealer Of Our Soul..."


 Sep 2017 Danielle
blue mercury
sometimes,
i don't know what to say.
so i won't say much.
or i won't say
anything.

i'll just
let our eyes meet,
let my skin
brush against yours,
let you see
my cheeks
burn
the colour of redwood.

and then?
and then i will hope.
i will hope
for that to be enough.

with my hand
on your thigh
and your hand
over mine.

and my heart
saying everything
my mouth
can not.
i want to love but my heart is locked away.


In the end
Life numbs YOU
Why are you pushing me away?
With this final masquerade
Given UP
In pieces
Crawling away
I am powerless
Bringing me One step closer
To Somewhere I belong
With Heavy heart
What I've done?
LOVED YOU..!
I'm a paper-cut survivor
Let me bleed it out
Let me burn it down
I've no more sorrow
What's this new divide?
I'm Breaking the Habit of LIFE
Shadow of the Day elongating
I'm Waiting for the end
I remain the messenger of LOVE
Lying for YOU from life
Guilty all the same
From the inside
Let me crawl back in your life
In the castle of glass
Give a Place for my head
Otherwise I'll be gone
I'm out of time now
Traveling the roads untraveled
With black heart
I am rider of the storm
Living the Battle Symphony
Burning in the skies
So don't let down me
I'm victimized
So slow Ya roll
Let me hit the floor
Away from lies greed misery
See Inside me
In the end we made it
with YOU
I LOVE In the end
**
Love can save our LIVES


A tribute to Chester Bennington
Best song listings
In the end Chester wanted LOVE
LOVE could have saved his life...


I have lived a life
Of a deleted poem
A poem that has not
Got a second chance

A poem that -
Instead of revising and editing -
Is just DELETED
A poem of LOVE
That has given up in the fight of LIFE
A poem thrown into the dustbin
Because of the fear of this world
What people would say?
What people would think of us?

Do not be coward, be brave, do not fear

You have the LOVE a love requires from YOU
Do not put shame to the piece of paper,
The poem represents us - our LOVE story
I want you to pick up that sheet of paper
Straighten its creases and
Give LOVE one more chance

Patiently go over the LOVE-drafts
Re-read all those beautifully written LOVE-notes
Fill in the blanks - those empty spaces of LOVE
Re-write those blank sheet
With the blood that flows in you
Complete and present it to
The world as your own LOVE

See what the ovation world gives to
Your poem of LOVE,
That you threw and picked up again
It has became "OUR" story of LOVE

Now we are living a life of a
Celebrated LOVE-poem
That was given a second chance



 Aug 2017 Danielle
Vanessa Gatley
Ah
U
Got
Ur
Secrets
Told
Where the heat of it all boiled
And steamed away
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