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Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2021
I have a tendency
To strive for high places
A belief that I am so good
And inside I know I can be
Just as I sometimes lose what focus
Such a thing demands of me
I let the dwindling believers down
The numbers of those decline
Then I complete something unexpected
Igniting belief and confirming
Sometimes it can be amazing
Sometimes.
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2021
I may yet make it
To the ground of life above

If to try
and try I must
Though no
No siren calls

I move forth
on volition
Masquerading plainly
Aging desperation
A need
to not be lost

To see
and feel contentment
To be
Breathing
deeply such fabled air
Accomplished
if
to be my last
Then
From below and in
Beneath
and so far back

From that place
that
only holds this
Away taunting

My one last wish
A lonely hope

The one truth
My direction

home
I go to escape excuses

I go.
I go.
I know.

I must

Or else
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2021
A puzzled thing of thoughts.
Its own harsh judge
Watching always this mess of
Nothing great and nothing grand.
Two parts of one facing off.
Desperate for and too guarded.
Loving, outwardly too much
To entertain such notions,
Placed purposely by subtle sabotage.
Sculpting the view the two sides
Agree to see him to be.
Now I'm realizing what's been done.
Too long, too far gone, too late to change
Back to anything the one may want.
Ive brought this on and I ****** up
Adjust my acceptance to a lonely
Life to wait through until gone
Because I've been afraid and I got exactly what cowards ought to.  
An awful thought to wake up each day believing.
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2021
Promise a light, innocent thing
A gesture at times simply said
Enough to warrant disappointment
Though I know I never meant to
I sometimes misplace intent
I don't mean too.  I'm awful
To not do all I thought to
But I get that you don't trust
The Intent that I meant to
After all words are often meaningless
and intent alone won't do much more
Than lose the trust of those that matter most.
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2021
Held out; Missed myself
Unchosen; unknown reasons
Proof; never certain.
Know now; should've listened
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2021
Brilliant rays no longer
The night has devoured all color
No moon to remind one of Sol
Only muted ambient blues and purples
Stars spy us as a star from afar
Crickets song battles silence
Most fall off to fantastic inner visions
While seemingly I alone
Watch from a window the monochromatic
So much like the mind I find
When in the deeps of depression
The sun will come
I know, but no colors with it
Unless I force my eyes to see them.
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2021
Oh the Eyes
So deep and magnetic
To view and to see
Is to less fall,
More to be held.
Wrapped in,
And enthralled awestruck
A state of stasis
In those eyes so beautiful
That do not notice
Walking by those
Of the foolish
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