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4.4k · Mar 2014
Gatsby
Newt Figgins Mar 2014
Watching the traffic light turn from green to yellow to red...all from bed.

Thoughts of Jay Gatsby fill my head
Alone in bed, I wonder how he must have felt
Seeing that green light
Reminded of Daisy, his love.
1.4k · Feb 2014
Homesick for Heaven
Newt Figgins Feb 2014
My soul is tired of swimming
Drowning in the darkness of my heart
Fighting the current of every beat
Overwhelmed by sin and disgrace
Let me see Your Holy Face
I'm homesick for a better place
1.3k · Mar 2014
Locomotive
Newt Figgins Mar 2014
Nothing could prepare me for this
I've always wanted to experience the bliss
Riding on the thunder of a deafening locomotive
I look up at the river of steam that dances above
And I think of my Love

Trees and houses race by
Seemingly running the other way

I think of what was
And how I will miss her love

Tears race across my dirt ridden cheeks
Thrown by the wind
Into the hands of the gravel below  

A smile fights its way back
As I start to run out of track
1.2k · Dec 2013
Water Through A Broken Dam
Newt Figgins Dec 2013
She isn't here but I can hear her
Laughing as I tell her "you have big teefies"
Playfully she leans in and gives me a toothy kiss
I fight to not remember
Trying to hold back the memories like a broken dam
Inundated day by day
How could I ever forget
My future wife
Time is a thief
A stealer of many things
But it can never steal my love for you
Or make me forget
...Like water through a broken dam
1.1k · Aug 2014
Another Day
Newt Figgins Aug 2014
Another day
Another sorrow

Purpose more lost than a parentless child at Seaworld

Forget the pain of today and tomorrow
It's going to be ok
Pull your head out of your ***
You Stink and Your eyesight is ******

Think of yourself less and others more
No one cares about you why should you be any different?
808 · Mar 2014
Loch Ness
Newt Figgins Mar 2014
Freedom like Nessie...

Freedom is like Loch Ness
A Monster that some confess
But they are mistaken at best

Bound by decisions freely made
Freedom will never be free

It's merely a reflection
Of the monster within

Freedom is like Loch Ness
... You're mistaken at best
720 · Feb 2014
Not Too Far Away
Newt Figgins Feb 2014
Running hearts
Wandering souls

Reality left alone and ignored

Passion is blinding
But love binding

Grace calls from the path
And warns of wrath

Troubled hearts run if you must
But  you shall surely return to dust
Romans 6:1
699 · Apr 2016
Darkness Can Try
Newt Figgins Apr 2016
Darkness tries and fails
To abate the light of my love for thee
A little over one year hath passed
But a Covenant still stands that Will Last

Darkness can try...
But it will always fail
To consume the light of my love for you
Andrea Leigh Dorsett
680 · Feb 2014
More than the Lies
Newt Figgins Feb 2014
Open your eyes
You are more than the lies
Can you not see

Self-Hate wispers in your ear
Insecurity grabs your hand
Satan lies  
Can you not see

Flowing brown hair
Ripe lips and a toothy smile
Hazel eyes that grab my heart
Can you not see

Love pumps through your heart
Selflessness through your veins
Oh how can you believe the lies
How can you despise

Can you not see
You are free

Can you not see
You mean the world to me
663 · Feb 2014
Socitis
Newt Figgins Feb 2014
Society
What a mess
Lost and stressed never finding rest
Breeding Greed and Success
But I digress

(meanwhile)
.... Purpose and Meaning lag behind
Waiting for their time
632 · Jan 2014
Food for Wolves
Newt Figgins Jan 2014
Jekyll and Hyde
Bonnie and Clyde
On the second one I lied
Bonnie and Clyde were just Hyde  
Two wolves live inside
Do you feed Jekyll or Hyde
618 · Mar 2014
Words for Andi
Newt Figgins Mar 2014
My life for your life
I'd rather die for you
Than live without you
590 · Feb 2014
Room 223
Newt Figgins Feb 2014
From the darkness of room 223 ...
Thoughts stumble through the fog
Of a mind that was once so clear.
Hope shines only to blind.
No longer sublime because of time.
Reality is the *****
Thats led me to this ditch.
You can't fall if you're already down.
Be still now you're safe and sound.
565 · Feb 2014
Chapters End
Newt Figgins Feb 2014
"It's been a good ride" I chuckled a cried

Time well spent
I can't deny

Blessed beyond all measure
The memories I will always treasure

Rich with time past
Sad to see it won't last

The battle has been fought
Not all for naught

Know when to hold and when to fold  
Or so I'm told

I laugh
"It's been a good ride"
557 · Mar 2014
No One Else
Newt Figgins Mar 2014
No one else will do
All I want is you
Time will never convince me otherwise
Neither will you
Try as you might
Even when we fight
Even on the darkest of nights
I will always love you and only you
For no one else will ever do
Andi, I will always love you
527 · Mar 2014
Fight for Light
Newt Figgins Mar 2014
I'm sorry for what I've done
So tired I can no longer run
Broken down on the wrong side of hope

Forever
Just a lot of todays
And even more tomorrows

Forever without hope
Is like winter without a coat

Fight for light

With you Forever is a friend
May we experience a lot of todays
And even more tomorrows
Fighting for the One who
Fights for us
Who intercedes on our behalf
Who brings us back to Hope

Fight for that light my Love
For it only comes from above

I don't deserve you
And especially not Him
All I can give is my love
My todays and my tomorrows


I will always love you
Forever
For Andi
487 · Mar 2014
You and Me
Newt Figgins Mar 2014
You and Me
We can never be
Without three
The Blessed Trinity
413 · Mar 2014
10 word poem
Newt Figgins Mar 2014
Long Days
Broken Hearts  
I'm ready for a new start
Newt Figgins Mar 2014
I know but I don't believe
The future that you have for me
Struggle and despair consumes my air
The bridge is in need of repair

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