James Rektor Poems

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there.
I do not sleep.
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My sweethearts take this gentle rose
Press it to your heart and always remember
This meeting will be our last.
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I look at the smooth and slow flowing water. I wonder what it would be like to move forward and never look back. Or never stay or be in the same place twice.

I can stand there for hours just to watch the water and to hear the water.
I see my reflection.
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What do you call it when all you feel is pain?
When your loved ones look at you and all you feel is shame?
When your tired of living and playing this game?
When you know you life is meaningless and your the only one to blame?
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It's a winter wonderland, for you.
All I see is a blanket of pain.
It is not you but I who had lost thy soul
With no regard for what for what has been done, only hopeless regret.
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step by step
I will push threw this
threw all of the obstacles
obstacles of life
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With a heart of gold, and a look so nice,
I met a girl who had angel eyes.
Her smile so precious like a jewel on a crown,
And her eyes so deep, in which many have drowned.
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My sweethearts take this gentle rose
Press it to your heart and always remember
This meeting will be our last.

Tomorrow, I go away across endless skies
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Today is the day,
I'm going to die,
Today is the day,
You made me cry,
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