David Knox Poems

You might not understand the way I write because I write for me
This is my selfish exploit, my medicine, for the acid-
This is how I choose to drown my sorrows, I hid them, quid
In a sea of deeper sorrow, that goes deeper still... can't you see
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When we were in this parking lot we said goodbye
I hugged you, held you tight... I don't always do that. I knew
You were going home, I wouldn't see you for four months.
But I guess I'll actually never see you again, you just disappeared
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Time does not stop it moves, it compels, it forces us forward
Time makes me into my future, but it's my past I'm moving toward
I both cling to it and strive for it
I don't want to, but I feel I can't bear to just leave
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Forgive me if this is just a feeling
Sorry if this isn't true
But nothing has felt so sure, so enduring, so sealing
With just one pen stroke I feel my life is set, it's been pinned down, who
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So many people, from so many places
Could you know them all?
Would you want to?
Who are my friends, which ones do I keep can I know them all
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I remember a time when I was closer
I made a time when I had more faith, when I was not so caught with 'her'
With this girl or that, this friend or that one
Rather the focus of my attention was closer to my heart, of whom I am His son
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Just saying
When you're hearing the same thing
Everyone is talking about identity
What it mean to be me
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Identity
Worthless
Untalented
Weird
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There is no escape
Always creeping, always following always there
Always here, there is nowhere to go
Nowhere to run to
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It's a strange task to put something down in ink
The things worth saying
Are the things that can't be said- I think
The songs that mean something to sing
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