How a man can prove himself different than what his words lead you to believe.

For all of the moments of tell tale signs
Drinking your words of merry and wine

Placing my heart on your tattered sleeve
Tempting me softly as if you believe

Cradling my need to sense of your love
Turning me into a broken-winged dove

Pacifying a tear from my cheek
Testing a soul you know to be weak

Grasping for me with wide opened hands
Letting me fall into quickening sand

Pleasing those of fame and of night
Assisting those who take pride of their might

Trampling down the spirit I held
Now withered, convulsive and slowly expelled

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  • IcyCucky on Jul 8, 2008

    Wonderful poem! I can sense a vulnerable feeling..

  • kimberly bock on Jul 8, 2008

    Yup, Same man. Same heartache. I guess this makes it the 100th time? ;-(

    There will not be 101.

  • paul mcintosh on Jul 8, 2008

    ouch. ya gotta feel to heal i was once told. that doesn’t make it easier, just closer. i do like it. still, ouch.

  • kimberly bock on Jul 9, 2008

    Hey Paul,

    Long haul? I’m a loner anyway.

  • Michael L.odispoto on Jul 12, 2008

    Love and the great times wouldn’t be as good if it weren’t for the experiences that we’d prefer to have skipped or even forget. They are though a part of us just as much as the good or great relationships. We live and we learn, we touch the stove and get burned. Then touch it again because we like what we cook. Whether a great meal, cake or whatever. But what we cook requires intense heat, like relationships and love. Every cook gets burned.

    You said ” There will not be a 101″. That would mean you can suddenly become not human. That’s a hard thing to do for anyone I’d think. It may look like that for you now but time does a great job at helping us adjust.
    I know a way to look at things like this in a better light. A little trick you can make yourself think along the same lines. With each relationship that hurts and ends, say to yourself ” Wow, I’m one closer to that one that will be great” .
    It is a numbers game after all. A lot of people don’t like to look at it that way, but it is true.
    I understand that your creative juices flow from your experiences. It is though a fact that it is how we look at situations that dictates your emotions. Reminds me of
    George Costanza in Seinfeld where he decided to do the opposite of what he always did. It’s really funny if you like Seinfeld. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUvKE3bQlY

  • Beaman of Pen Me A Poem on Jul 21, 2008

    A very sad poem. I hope it’s not related to your real life. :(
    Well written.

  • Donald Barr on Sep 7, 2008

    Double ouch!! I better not record my troubles. I liked it.

  • Puke on Nov 7, 2008

    This is word vomit. You suck

  • GooGoo on Mar 4, 2009

    I agree with Puke. Most of your stuff is pathetic self indulgence. Grow up and live with the sometimes not so perfect life. We all do!

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