Kevin Carney

Eyes look through the mirror…
Conscious is the brain.
No more illusions…
The reality of life wins out…
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I look at the blank sheet of paper…
Staring deep into the pure white.
I went to write the words,
which needed to be said.
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Please excuse my absence…
So quiet I have been…
Sorry for the lack of words…
It was something I just had to do.
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The thunder and lightning…
Flashes illuminating the dark of the night…
Rumbles of the thunder shattering the solace of the darkness.
Eyes wide open, listening…
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Miss Blue, look at you…
Sitting there looking out into the blue of night.
Out that window with that blank blue stare.
Pensive, it’s written on your face.
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Apple pie…
Watermelon…
The Fourth of July.
America....
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Last night…
I heard what I thought…
Were your whispers in the twilight of my dreams.
Lost it seems, once besides me.
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Is it time?
To look inside and maybe fade away…
Where it will end I cannot say…
Through the whispers of soft dreams…
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Did I see the rainbow in the sky yesterday?
The storms have ended, the sky lights bright.
The colors all so vivid to see for all so high above.
Dare I take that chance, to tell you what’s in my heart?
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I don’t scare easily…
You try to push me away.
You might break my heart…
I am not going away…
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Sitting in the Dunkin Donuts…
So hard am I trying to sober up.
Pour me another cup before; I am going to pass out.
Make it black and please no decaf…
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This isn’t going to work at all.
So hard I’ve tried to keep it all together…
I tried to see the light of the day…
I tried to shade my eyes from all the sadness.
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Can I take that chance again…?
To see you slowly slip away.
All I ask is that you look at me.
So much we’ve been through.
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Are you an Angel?
Or…
Maybe just a demon…
That has turned my soul.
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My faith has been rocked…
Don’t see what became of me.
I looked into the faith of mankind…
It seems it was all a pipe dream.
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Don’t do it…
Too young you are…
Marriage…
To who,
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I never lied or tried to deceive you…
It was such a horrible spot you put me in.
I don’t think you really believe,
what you mean to me.
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A candle sits and flickers on the old table.
Light and shadows dance about…
Untamed,
the hues come and go,
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I’m living a lie…
Trying so hard to survive.
Talking the talk of fantasy.
To become what I’m not…
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Strange you are.
You walk on the sands.
Of that oceanless beach…
The waves have died…
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