Mark Normand Poems

Alone again inside it seems.
With plastic friends and broken dreams.
I sit in empty darkness beyond measure.
Today just like so many things.
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Today just like so many days I waste away to nothing.
Standing here, frozen by fear, I feel I must do something.
The light within has grown so dim; the sunshine of my being.
A cold grey darkness fills my soul; an empty lifeless feeling.
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Smile upon the morning, a warm
look about the day.
A happy bright demeanor, to help
you on your way.
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On the high seas of life, with no compass
for direction.
Held prisoner by emotion in my mental
insurrection.
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When I wake up cold and empty.
After all the good within me.
Slowly drains out of a hole and I can't cry.
I try to speak and all at once I find.
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I will try for a thing.
Of great beauty that sings.
With those who would bask in it's light.
I have been in distant dreams.
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Love is blind; but still we see the lying, cheating, heart.
This stranger we no longer know; who rips our life apart.
Where is the one who shared my love, my precious darling girl?
She's gone away and somehow changed; now jaded by the world.
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Look at me, please don't cry my darling;
it's nothing I will be just fine.
Smile, show me your beauty, let me
look at my love one last time
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Put on my shoes and walk with me into
my world of sorrows.
My endless state of loneliness, cold pain,
and lost tomorrows.
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I'm here at the front of the back of the line,
I was last but I think I'll go next.
I've been here so long it seems like forever,
I think it's time I sat down to rest.
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