From the first
I could see that you
Were wrong
Only now
Do I see
That I was too
How much
Would we have saved
If only we both knew?
Now I sit in regret
Wondering if you
Are sitting likewise too
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and then
you remember
the breath
and the silence
within
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Sad Zac is sad
He’s feeling bad
He’s feeling like he’s been had
That the times he was glad
And feeling rad
Were in fact just a fad
As a wee lad
Sad Zac couldn’t relate to any comrade
He was bullied by Chad
Crying, he asked advice from his dad
‘Just punch his face a tad’
Lesson learnt, fists make a nomad
Add one tick to the notepad
No one approaches the battle clad
No one threatens the mad
Sad Zac is sad
Remembering his dad
Remembering him before he was mad
Rereading the notepad
Reminiscing of the success had
Ruminating on his advice to play mad
And embodying it as a personality pad
Sad Zac now fears the nomad
And trains daily for a fight he’s not yet had
Fear of the footpad wielding a doodad
Has grown into fear of every comrade
‘Where is the rest of the advice, dad?’
‘How can I avoid also going mad?’
‘What can I do to stay feeling glad?’
‘Who can I turn to now that you’re just a notepad?’
Sad Zac is still sad
But also a tad glad
Because putting these thoughts on this notepad
Has alleviated some of the mad
He still feels bad
But writing has healed some of his inner lad
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Impending doom
Looms over the womb
Nothing can exhume
The gloom of the tomb
Life is just a costume
An heirloom
A temporary bloom
Before the darkness consumes
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Do I think it true
Because it is
Or because I want it to be?
I cannot see
The bonds that blind me
But I know they’re there
Death isn’t tragic
But how death occurs
Most often is
Fantasy
Can only exist
If I’m an active participant
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When I die
What will be left of me
Beyond these words
And
The impact I have had
On others?
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I struggle to know
What I want to do
But I know
I want to do it with you
I struggle to know
What I want to be
But I know
I want you to be with me
I struggle to know
Who I am
But I know
Without you I’m a sham
I struggle to know
What I should think
But I know
Without you I’d shrink
I struggle to know
Where I want to go
But I know
I want you to show
I struggle to know
But you help me see
You show me
What it means to be me
You teach
And you guide
You let me confide
You help
And you heal
You let me conceal
You are
My everything
In my life
All hope you bring
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I’m held
By the inertia
Of my own inaction
If
If only
If only I
If only I could
If only I could just
If only I could just take
One
Single
Step
I know
I’d be free
Forever
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I wonder
If my role here
Is to sacrifice myself
For others
No one
Gets out alive
So why not give
What I have?
Perhaps
In doing so
I’d find
My purpose
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All it takes
For me to flee
Is a sharp look
From you
Directed at me
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What thoughts
Are confined
In the vault
Of your mind?
Why
Don’t you speak
And share
What you think?
I don’t know
Who you are
Beyond what
I can see
And what I can see
Is that you
Clearly
Have no time for me
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souls entwined
with a desire
to escape their fate
ancestors
collectively mourning
lost childhoods
disparate people
drawn together
by shared suffering
stumbling
forward
into a new life
fleeing their pasts
unwittingly creating
their futures
they know
what not to do
but not what to do
attempting to avoid
the same mistakes
their parents made
desperately praying
for their children
to escape their fate
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huddled
in a corner
years
on repeat
every minute
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Without hope
My inner compass breaks
Without faith
I can’t find it
Without love
I don’t have anywhere to go
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Those few words
Gave voice
To the silence
I always knew
Was there
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The love I feel
So impossibly real
The love that’s real
So impossible to feel
A point of reality
Against a bleak totality
A bleak totality
Devoid of reality
A pinprick of light
That illuminates the night
A dark night
Pricked with terror and flight
A whispered prayer
Promising a truth and a dare
A violent glare
Promising pain and a scare
A look and a touch
That’s never too much
A look and a touch
That’s always too much
A lifetime together
Souls entwined forever
A lifetime together
Souls enmeshed forever
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I get more solace
In a day
From strangers online
Than you’ve given me
In a lifetime
They ask
They listen
They see
You just speak
Holding me
To higher standards
Than you hold yourself
Judging me
For acting
How you act
Hating me
For being
Who I am
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The devil speaks
With the voice
Of those
I love
Whispering
Half truths
Whispering
Lies
I cannot
Always
Tell
Them apart
So
I hurt
The very people
I wanted to save
This poem is from the book, ‘A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken’.
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And just like that
The silence
Was broken
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Isn’t it fascinating
Just how much
A mere thought
Can derail
An otherwise perfect day?
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