M. Richard Smith Poems

Affliction drives her hardened heart’s intent
While pity masks the mysteries of her truth
And comforts her with mutated hope.
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In burning shades of red,
The sun will shed its light,
And fade through whispering clouds.
As night whisks in, so proud,
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Watching shadows
through the moonless night,
catching only glimpses
in the light of passing cars.
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I saw his face within my own,
Beyond the water's edge.
A peace within his eyes, alone.
Within my heart, I bled.
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When the sun sits low upon my day
And my sky begins to fill with grey,
When my dear mother kneels to pray,
I wonder, will you cry?
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Turned and twisted, angled steel,
Scattered webs of glass.
Numbing pain too deep to feel.
Crimson pools on grass.
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