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jytree
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since 2000-01-26
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0 posted 2000-01-26 03:07 PM


One day at a time,
I go on wondering why,
Why do I put up with this life?,
Why do I put up with the pain?,
My brody is broken,
My spirit is torn,
I am helpless,
Still I wander why I go on?,
Why don't I give up?,
I am losing my mind everyday,
One day at a time,
I lay here suffering in my state of mind,
I watch as the world I once loved turned into something terrible,
As I am stuck her waiting, suffering, and dying,
One day at a time,
Should I go on I wounder as a Icy grip of death is opon me,
I lay here broken, used, and beating,
As I wander through the grave yard,
I find my wife and son's grave,
I place my last possesion at the grave,
My life, MY soul and the rest of my being,
To see them once more,
I gave what I had to marry her,
I gave my life for my son,
Now I lay here with a gun to my head,
Saying with tears in my eyes,
I love you,
I will be with you soon,
My life I watch as I slowly pull the trigger,
My last thought before the end,
It was a happy one indeed,
Now I am finally free,
I am happy yes I am,
Happy to die,
No,
Happy to Finally live


By jay vaughn


© Copyright 2000 Michael Jay vaughn - All Rights Reserved
poetry_kills
Senior Member
since 1999-12-04
Posts 549
new orleans
1 posted 2000-01-26 07:01 PM


jay: very good and wonderfully moving... i recently read a poem by a friend in the critical analysis form about the life of curt cobain that was very similar in ending... i really like the thoughts put into this one...

sincerely,
jerome the boy with no soul

 A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
~Coleridge

Isis
Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland
2 posted 2000-01-26 08:18 PM


So sad and sensitively written. Thanks for sharing it with us.  I wrote one in OP5 Windswept Plains had a softer tone to it than this though.  

 Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
~Isis~
(Sovereign of the Spirit)


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