Danny Speicher Poems

Woke angry today with morning's new light
The weight of all the injustices done
And all the poor feelings under the sun
Had swollen within my heart overnight
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Blue eyes shining, haunting my dreams
I wake to find them with me even still
Blue eyes, to shake them is harder than it seems
Sometimes I wonder if the memory can kill
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It's silly that I miss you
For we've never even met
It's silly that my heart longs
For one I hadn't met yet
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Slave of my own inner doubt and misery
I thought my dreams were all but dead and gone
Seeing the pain hope had thus far led me through
Had set a permanent twilight for my hope of a dawn
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Sometimes I forget that you and I ever were
Your name rings empty like a reference from a dream
Reference to times shared leave memories unsure
At times, you’re a shadow, less real than once you seemed
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Perhaps my hope for us is all for naught
And all the giggles and the smiles shared
Are meant to be forever undeclared
Perhaps my heart’s big dreams are all it’s got
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All but forgotten and joyfully so
Thinking my mind would never again find
The way that your eyes once gazed into mine
Why do these thoughts come and how do they go?
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Since you departed, I’ve watched over you
From many miles with many eyes trained
Naught speaking a word nor hoping to gain
A second chance back to your heart so true
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Someday I will meet you again, far away, far away
Someday I will hear your gentle voice call my name once more
And all of the fears that once raged inside me like a war
Will, in that moment be soothed by your voice, on that sweet day
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Here we stand at the precipice of history
Fearfully gaze at its awe-inspiring face
Behind us are a flood of our greatest failures
Like never before we must now set high our pace
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