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Sunset at my horizen and far to much regret apon me.
The story forever the same a jilted lover a midnight kiss.
Often ive tasted the wine to avoid the saltwater tears and a distant shores redemption.

Lights from the carnival tatterd dreams and the Jersey shore.
Far gone my thoughts hollow is the bottle burried in sand.

Why do we embrace the pain to only understand the stage traggic by design.
In eye's often reflected I recall you but never understood myself.
As children we yern for what seems a ghost hunt  in a moments time.
Im still walking but no longer can I sense my return.

Footsteps burried in saltwater washed in a long vanished time.
It only takes a song to go back yet a foolish pride and a storm couldnt make him
turn to her.

Ive known many faces yet never understood one.
Take me to sunsets demise and a night skies birth.
Toast a broken soul and ******* logic for it's all I have to give for now.


The lights from afar seem no more distant than I.
the sunsets my canvas the waves crash my song.

Whispers of what never was pillow talk and tommorows thought.
All intentions often merge with the same long walk.

I understood nothing more clear .
Then when she uttred the words goodbye.
Casey Rizzo Aug 2015
Feeling burnt inside. Living with wounds. All the hardships denied. All of us living in these tombs. Torn and tatterd. Never knowing what's next. Had any of this even matterd. When you look at my battle scars.
First poem, first jab at the heart
K Balachandran Jul 2012
She came to the fare,
disguised as a village girl,
none recognized her,
thought, yet another seeker of good times!

I was in my tatterd clothes,
waiting out side,  to see  parade of the rich,
and hear the wise, speak their words;
just curious, to see what they are up to.

Eager to get a glimpse
even if for some minutes,
when they go in, crossing the gate,
or come out after the feast .

Her eyes where deep blue sapphires,
emitting the clear light of wisdom,
one look at her revealed -
her heart is pure light, what I waited for

"princess, why are you in disguise?
you are the one, befitting to the high seat,
I am no one to say this, just a mendicant,
one uprooted from own land and  lost all love"

I whispered this as she passed,
as if to myself, barely audible,
I saw her eyes dazzle in a flash,
wordless wisdom binding us two,

"Dervish, you should dance with me tonight,
she said without even batting an eyelid,
I don't see a partner,match to a princess,
I knew, i'll meet one; you are here"
Geno Cattouse Nov 2012
I cannot abide the horrors in the hours when the coming day
Shouts and pulls at yesterday and derides him for a job poorly done
Leaving unfinished business on the table.

                                                         ­     Scraps and bones
                                                           ­   Tatterd sinew.
                                                          ­    Skin.
                                                       ­       Poor execution has left tomorrow
                                                        ­      With rotting clutter. Hear him
                                                              Mu­tter.
Not at rest fully now surfacing psyche able to stir
after corps-like slumber  judgement at the ready.
Shake the foreboding feeling
walking
through a graveyard something inches from my back
Grinning at my ignorance.
Pondering surprise.
Wake up and push the stone uphill
wake up and take your pill.
harry ride Sep 2014
as I lay on the ground all tatterd and useless
as people walk by not seeing or caring
my bruise grow bigger as my heart grows smaller
for who is left to care for the worthless ******* the street
my parents disowned me
my friend betrayd me
I lie all a lone as the snow glides down
i  tremble and shiver in the cold
no one that loved me anoth to warm me
the cloud that i make with my very last breath
flys away to the stars and to a much better place
i wath as it gose leaving me to die all wortless and young

now i'm a sight to dehold with my tears of ice and my lips of blue
my dress of frost and my lack of shoes i wonder the streets unknowen to man and for those that rember my face they do not care for the worthless ******* the street

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