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..and here are a few things to keep in mind:

This blog contains mostly my poetry and a few thoughts from time to time. The thoughts will be entered when and wherever I feel necessary to keep things in proper order. Thoughts and things not belonging to me will be denoted with asterisks. Poems will be archived by the date which they were written, not by that which they were posted. I tend to update things a month or few after being written so as to keep current issues from wandering unattended around the web.

Enjoy...

[somberlife was first created July 11, 2004]


“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson


Showing posts with label end. Show all posts
Showing posts with label end. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2012

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

I don't know what your defining as "okay"
I don't know what your defining as "the end"
But you have a good chance of being okay
Before and at times other than
the end
And you have a good chance of reaching
the end
At a time that is not okay


It's not that I'm overly pessimistic, I'm just overly realistic.
posted from Bloggeroid

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

At Odds

Why can I not draw cohesive lines
between who I am and what I like?

A combination of many little pieces
of many parts
of life. As a whole,
I do not properly fit anywhere.

Someday,
this combination that you so like in me,
darkness and light,
will rip me asunder.

posted from Bloggeroid

Friday, December 03, 2010

Shedding the Old

shedding people from my life

friends and lovers
bad influences

Friday, November 26, 2010

Over

I've done it
now I must separate myself
It's over
unless I want the pain to grow

I can survive whatever I need to
I protect myself,
so I'm the only one who can hurt me

Someday that will change
and I will cry

Monday, August 23, 2010

Fear Of

It is not fear of change.
It is fear of loss.

Fear of taking advantage of a good thing;
flushing it away

Fear of loosing something good.

Monday, June 21, 2010

The End Could Be Neigh

But I love you
I don't want to be through
You keep me safe
You keep me sane

This may be the end, though
To what we have
To what we've built
and carefully crafted

You and I, we're just not the same
(no matter how much I try)
We're not on the same level
Though equal we may be

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Fate

It had to end
There was no way
You just didn't complete me
Nor I you
We were matched together so well
But our stars just didn't align
Fate had other plans for us
It just had to end
To save us all

Saturday, November 19, 2005

the end

Why do I feel this way
...still?
I just sit here and cry
(but I'd never admit that to you)
I didn't love him
We both knew that
But I don't know why I'm
still sitting here looking through
tear blurred eyes.

All I can do is write...
How I wish I could call
How I wish I could stop by
(and let you wrap me in your arms)
Neither of us do the 2nd time around thing
...And that's not what I want.
I just want you.

Why?