Drew Engman Poems

A thousand reflections pitch dark at midnight
Slivery shadows bright in the moonlight
I just want to see through the veil past the end
But here comes the sun up and rising again
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Fumious You Me Us
(Playing with vowel sounds: Long/Short& Short/Long etc.)

Gave out in the gap
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Before Zero
There's a way
Stronger than the things
that stand against me every day.
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Surfing in a tidal wave, drowning on the land
Sailing over dry lakes, swimming desert sands
Gold mines lost in mystery, silver bullets found
Dirt road miles away from anything
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Big Bang, Time and Space,
God's Creations' Moment-Place

Hydrogen, helium, ashes, dust:
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Crying like a baby in the rain
Shaking with a sadness and a rage as
Hot as hell that leaves you icy cold and
Drowning in the sorrows of the world.
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Incorruptible
Together, beside each other, we can stand up and tell it -all true
As we get there along the moments that I love,
being here with you
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Two minutes takes an hour to pass, a day goes in a second
Time keeps traveling off and away, to where I never ask.
Because life always ends too soon,
And I don't know how to face it.
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Five's for playing, fifteen'sgetting high.
Twenty-five, forty-five, sixty-five, die
If you make it to eighty-five you might regret it
A hundred should break you, but I wouldn't let it.
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Our lives are like warm bubbles trapped in ice
Small spheres of light
Here melting away.
This aging, getting old and older,
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