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desperado
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since 1999-05-24
Posts 312
FT Hood,Tx

0 posted 2002-06-13 01:18 AM



I can't believe that the worlds on my shoulders
I can't believe that it's real
theres no one around me to see that I'm falling
so would you help me to feel

theres nothing left, I stay here in traction
nothing to move me along
no living hope, just broken dreams and passions
no motivation to live

why can't I see that the worlds on my shoulders?
what can I possibly do?
how can I hold on to what I have lost now?
answers are running from me

they're hiding now, deep in the shadows
waiting to take me away
I struggle on, weary from exertion
surviving through one more day

I can't believe this station
I can't relive creation
I sit alone and wonder why I'm alive
nothing makes sense right now
its all a mess somehow
I can't imagine why I'm still here today

cause I've got the weight of the world on my shoulders,
no one can take it from me
and no one can see all the damage it's doing
no one can help set me free
I'm at the bottom of the well as the water dries up with no where to go and no remedy in sight as the chances of survival get thinner and thinner in a world where theres no difference between breakfast and dinner and the chance of salvation is passing me by slowly but surely on a cloud that can fly should I escape from the pressure and the pain that I live in or can I find my own salvation in the pleasure it gives them to make me suffer and destruct the very fabric I dwell in so goodbye to all of you that couldn't relate and thank you to those who said that I'd make it cause I made it in the place where it truely matters in the heart and the soul of my wife


I love you christy and even though the world seems to be against us at times, it only makes us stronger

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. --Soren Kierkegaard

© Copyright 2002 James Webster - All Rights Reserved
doreen peri
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since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812
Virginia
1 posted 2002-06-13 01:26 AM


it is a song

a lyric melody

i hear it

your last line was the most important

i miss you and want to see you both this summer... please email me... i've lost my entire contact list

which is a poem in itself

your writing is always hard hitting and phrased better than a lost or won scrabble game .. it dances me on the emotions you table and display.....i'm not the scorekeeper but i do know when i read Love and i read it in you and her...

please write.... i have no email or snail mail addresses.. it's all gone and i need it back.....

come soon

Tiersdin
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since 2000-11-17
Posts 2364
east coast
2 posted 2002-06-13 01:38 AM


I can relate to these words...

and as a side note, you have the exact same name as my uncle...

*smiles*
~R.T.

"I shall never bond again, as I have bonded with you..."

Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136
Mobile, AL
3 posted 2002-06-14 02:18 AM


I certainly hope you two are doing well..hmm..I'm wondering about those wedding pictures now **taps foot**

Miss your writing around here.
((Hugs))

How grave is my condition, for I cannot find the words to say, I need you so.
~Sarah MacLachlan~

Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA
4 posted 2002-06-14 07:48 PM


ditto... I miss your verse a lot... and I truly hope all's going well for you - Hang tight, m'friend...
Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
5 posted 2002-06-14 07:54 PM


desperado
Well done I enjoyed the read.

Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
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Mobile, AL
6 posted 2002-07-09 07:01 AM



Giving this a bump.
Good poets should not go without a multitude of replies.

I will not bend to the cowardice of a silent judgement.

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