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Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2021
Stares they seem to touch me
Brush against my hardened shield.
I no longer fail to confront them
I know if I turn they won't be there
At times I start to worry for my mental health
Cause countless times I felt a fool
Paranoid dispite no proof
My eyes would never cease
to scrutinize the room
The person present besides me
Was always different and nobody I knew
These times I might have been paralyzed
Or chose to up and run back home
In the darkness was the safety of my room.
My lonely life, was still my terrible truth
If was crazy then just maybe I should not
Submit the eyes to my demise.  
But when you're crazy, please tell me
How to know the truth?
I feel the eyes.  Or maybe I've come too have a ***** loose?
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2021
Waters flowing to wide
Inside my heart insists
beyond the line of earth and sky
A place for those that dare it
but to enter the endless fuel of oceans
is to leave this place to nowhere certain
endless possibilities in death
Nay, what I seek is beyond mirrored shores
A land that promises only the brave
risk for reward of inner peace
belonging to something and introduction
to a calling, contentment and a name bestowed
reputation only of that which is demonstrated
a new beginning.  
I will know this, for I aim to build a bridge
to walk there safely, outsmarting foolish tests.
A better way to pursue this quest.
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2021
There is a sort of equilibrium in the notion

Of embracing someone or a future certain

On the one side; Thrill, closeness, nervous bouts of what if, desire, touching, feeling, wanting and holding at war with fear.
Of loss, of gaining, of learning to trust again.
Its counterweight; only certainty
Of safety, of simple safe existence though Lonely, and wondering.

Knowing such...  I choose....
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2021
Each time. Hits like
I should've been
Never would've guessed
didn't see "this" coming.
Yet again, this world taketh
These, my closest few
Each time fewer
another to the world's ranks
I guess I could expect it
same as how it feels
each time.  Right in the chest.
only one or two left
until the world taketh.
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2021
Reading thoughts owned and placed for hidden purpose
I begin to notice a pattern that is one of searching
travels and sought after views, of seeking and wanting
another life, or, appreciative reflection
of places I have never been, or that elude
when in truth, I have been no where, seen nothing
other than my day to day, my place of living.
I only know of here.  Have not laid an eye on a place
that haunts these writings.  Where must that be I wonder
as I post this pondering.
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2021
Hello, Folly.  

What shall I do today?

Okay.

Thank You Folly.
With out you...
Things may change.

Worse, they stay the same.

With you Folly,
One tries anyway.
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2021
Held in,
doubtful knots

Terrible ways of
Holding on.

Why?
So long kept is
too long
Felt.

I know, now.
I see.
That these pieces
Are but that
Of the whole.

They are not
who I am.
Just splinters
Trying
to work their way out

If not for I,
I allow,
I push
Them back down.

As if In love
with
the Pain? Sadness?
Aye,
somehow.

Better to write them
my wrongs held,
too long,
away.

Thus I learn
myself and reasons
Why it is?
Why,
I am afraid of
not
hurting?

Strange as such seems
there is truth to it.

Writing straightens
crooked patterns
of my thoughts

Knots of feelings
undone at long last.

To be understood
I must and can
share them away

As hope for those
built same as I am.
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