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Open Poetry #1

Peddler at Night

azblond
Senior Member

since 1999-07-01

Posts 637
The Steamy Desert

0 posted 1999-07-06 03:40 AM

Cursed darkness it enwraps me now
And I know not how to flee
I came here to escape so long ago
And now it won’t let me be

I sheltered myself inside the shell
Safe from a world gone mad
I turned within instead of for help
And gave up all I had

The cold cruel world, she broke my heart
Time and time before I came
She chewed me up and spat me out
She never cared my name

I crawled within myself to hide
To wait the pain away
Funny thing is I grew used to the night
And now I’ve lost the day

I’ve memories of a sunny sky
A lover with lips cherry red
I’d speak once more aloud again
If I remembered what should be said

But no words they come that would make sense
Of a useless gnarled old man
Instead pass by me in the darkness of night
And thrust change into my hand.

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Let my words fall first upon deaf ears before a closed mind...

[This message has been edited by azblond (edited 07-17-99).]

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