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I think I'm coming down
with the spring sillies
My dafty thoughts are feverish,
budding, blossoming,
Impulsive, daffodilly

My thigh muscles are stronger
And start to twitch,
As if they now prepare
To bound and leap in meadows
Like the mad march hare.

A cheeky imp is glinting
In my left eyeball
Calling me to frolic
With the April fool

There's happy hope in spring growth
Nature's clever ploy
And I'll not let any April showers
Dampen down my joy!

Mar 2014 Paul Hardwick

SOMEWHERE BEYOND

Mar 2014 Paul Hardwick

Traveler

SOMEWHERE BEYOND

Life, it seems a question
That’s answered only in death
A light that leaves your body
As you grasp for your last breath

What comes next
Nobody can know
You came like a dream
And now I’m alone

The tears that I bleed
Are hidden by lies
My love is spread thin
For those I would die

Her eyes gave me access
To see through her soul
Now I've gone blind
How could she let go

If death holds the answer
And love holds the key
Then somewhere beyond
She’s waiting for me

Traveler Tim
Over 20 years
I still can't let you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QU1nvuxaMA

#re #op #2019

Mar 2014 Paul Hardwick

A whisper of darkness

Mar 2014 Paul Hardwick

Chalsey Wilder

A whisper of darkness

A whisper
So faint
So near
It came right up next to my ear
It said come with me, I need to show you something
What do you have to show me? I ask

I stood at the edge
It was a dark beautiful waterfall

I was so amazed
come near. it whispered

I came closer
closer it said

I came so near that my ear almost touched the water
Then I noticed there was no sound of the waterfall

It whispered
A sound so faint and small
But what it said was loud
My worst nightmares and my darkest thoughts that were forcefully unfinished, they were whispered in my ear
Word for word I could not stop listening
It whispered welcome to immortality

That is my whisper of darkness

I always thought at first being immortal was cool, but then I thought about it and I realized it was my worst nightmare. I'd never want to be immortal. Being mortal is hard enough

Mar 2014 Paul Hardwick

I said I disliked Laura*, but (10W)

Mar 2014 Paul Hardwick

Sound Of Rain

I said I disliked Laura*, but (10W)

Am I turning more like her with every passing second?

*Laura: A character from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. She's got a small glass menagerie, and they're just as fragile as she is.

Mar 2014 Paul Hardwick

Trust

Mar 2014 Paul Hardwick

Chalsey Wilder

Trust

Trust
"Trust in me" they say
"I would never hurt you" they say
Truth is
You can never trust them
Trust no one
Not even yourself
They say "sometimes you hurt yourself more than others do"
I think they're right
Cause you always risk yourself when you trust someone
So you hurt yourself just as much as they hurt you
So trust no one
Not even yourself
Cause you're part of the reason that you got hurt
*they are the reason too

Just something that came across my mind. Trust is something that comes across my mind a lot, it says "trust no one, not even yourself, you are to blame also" which is true, cause even though we don't know it, we're part of the reason we get hurt. Cause we trust in the wrong people. It happens to everyone.