Opportunity gently knocks
  Whereas temptation demands to be let in

Age is truly just a number...if you have the desire,discipline and dedication towards achieving something, then you will get it...be it sooner or later.

I would like to think we were here
before the moon
before any dinosaur
before the sun glowed
laying together
in the open resonance
of space and time
and our souls when the earth
spun around and the sun shone down
were but a place for us
to spend a moment in flesh
for a time
a second to hold on to
for the rest
of eternity

I was never scared of love
Until you broke my heart
I had yet to feel this great pain
I fearlessly fell so deeply
Foolishly ignoring consequences
And now I am afraid
To do it again for another
To press my lips on someone else's
Because now i know
How great the possibilities
Of loving and losing
Of giving and not getting back
I am now a cautious soul
Made from your leaving
Carved by your abandonment
I chose to love you completely
Because I believed in consistency
But I will no longer be a fool

I  Feel so Blessed, by each of you here.
For you write poems that make me feel.
Poems of Joy, and some Poems of Pain.
So many Poems that has Touched my heart.
I want to thank you all, for letting me get to know you.
Your Pains, Struggles, Sorrows, Joys, and Love.
I am so thankful for you allowing me into your World.
Through all of those Poems that you keep on writing.

.
With this tarnished love I do
paint the world with darker hue,
and rise 'pon no light restraint
with shadow clouds for me to taint.

So ride black mood and flee away
torture me not for another day.
Begone! Be banished, leave no trace
release my heart to a better place.

Fate may bring wither she will
a new adventure, my love to thrill,
so permit this curtain call be seen
as my epitaph to a broken dream.


© Pagan Paul (2017)

The years are liars and they don't keep their word:
They promised me maturity,
But all I got was soft places where I should be firm.
They swore me wisdom,
But all I found was a different kind of foolishness.
They said I'd have new insights
But all I saw was how I miss the flowers of youth.

The years are untrue and make vows they don't intend to keep
They promised me contentment,
But all I received was a slower paced restlessness.
They told me I'd find fulfillment,
But all I've discovered is a bigger yearning.
They assured me these years would be golden,
But I can see through the veneer to the green beneath.

And I curse the days and weeks and years
For they lied to me and then ran away.
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