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duane hall Jun 2019
In my dreams you rescue me
In my dreams we're wild and free
In my dreams our life is free and easy
In my dreams you're still in love with me
Every single breath that I took was yours
Why can't things be like they were before
In restless sleep I wake up with the dawn
I reach out to hold you, to find that you are gone
Will my sadness ever end,  I swear you're in my room
I still smell the remnants of your sweet perfume
I'm haunted by the love that  we used to know
For the life of me I thought you'd never go
You were my life, you were my very soul
Where my heart held sway is now a big  black hole.
duane hall Jun 2019
I saw a void in the clouds, it looked just like a halo
The golden corpuscular rays were putting on a light show
I watched for several hours, I watched it come and go
One would disappear then another one would follow
I searched inside my mind, there has to be a meaning
A clear small voice replied,  "The answer you are seeking
Is clear as day but oh so very fleeting
Just as the hole in the cloud has been filled
So it is with your heart, You shall be healed."
duane hall Jun 2019
Take me to the place where happiness abounds
Where everything is light and no one wears a frown
They tell me in six months I won't be around
The cancer has come back, my body isn't sound
It's not so much that I,  am afraid to die
I'm tired of the pain, I'm  tired of the strife
If I have to go please just make it quick
I'm tired of the *******,  I'm tired of being sick
Give my regards to the people that I love
High upon this bridge, all I need's a shove.
duane hall Jun 2019
She was a very pretty girl, she had so many friends
Life was one big party, the fun it never ends
She had so many suitors, they all had played their parts
She played it fast and loose, a string of broken hearts    
If life was so much fun, why was she so alone
She was tired of being fake, her heart had turned to stone
She wanted someone genuine, she was ready to atone
He came into her life as if upon a cyclone
He came in out of nowhere, he blew in with the wind
She thought he was the one that could take away her sin
He was cool beyond degree, he had a silver tongue
She fell for every line, her heart had come undone
He played her like a harp, he fondled every string
She was totally in love, she was ready for the ring
But life can be capricious, it's fraught with irony
He left her at the alter, he was nothing but a phony
In a  subtle twist of fate  he had given her the boot
She now experienced life on the other foot
A lesson to be learned, something that you should know
The paradox of  life:  You reap just what you sow.
duane hall Jun 2019
You decided to checkout, it was by your very hand
Why you took the plunge I'll never understand
I wish I had the words, I wish I had known what to say
That would have saved you on that fateful day
I could feel your hurt, I know you were in pain
My efforts to save you were totally in vain
The relationship we had was more than just a fling
Perhaps with time my heart won't feel this sting
You were my life,  you were my everything
Now  I just sit by a phone that never rings.
duane hall May 2019
The predator was hungry, he was on the prowl
No one would suspect that something was afoul
Could it be he was abused as a young  child
Or maybe as he grew his brain became defiled
He wasn't on the radar, he didn't fit the profile
He could melt a young girl's heart with his boyish smile
But behind his façade and his mask of deception
He expertly concealed  his incurable infection
His brain's on fire,  he's  got snakes in his head
If you fall for his treachery you're gonna wind up dead
It's not just the young women who are his only prey
It's the relatives and friends that deal with the tragedy
How does society deal with such a deranged psychopath
And the carnage created by his insatiable bloodbath
The death sentence was created precisely for such monsters
This is a matter that should be taken up with Congress
I won't apologize not even a little bit
The Ted Bundy's of this world are psychological ****.
This poem is dedicated to Shannon and Diane(s)  Three local girls who died at the hands of a local serial killer.
duane hall May 2019
She checked out way too early, it was a very untimely fate
She was planning to be married, she couldn't  hardly wait
She was very much in love, they'd already set the date
She waited for him all this time, she finally found her soulmate
But cancer has a way of altering your plans
The monster was aggressive, she never had a chance
She never had a honeymoon, she never got to dance
She never cut the cake, she was a victim of circumstance
She was the light of his life, he thought her love could save him
She was the reason for his reason, now he's just a victim
Of the serpent  they call cancer and its very deadly venom
Why she left so early is very hard to fathom
He can't go on without her, he feels like he could die
His life is total chaos, he hangs his head and cries.
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