Michael James Robert Parkes Poems

The weakness that rests inside of me rests not when strength summons me to be.
So foreign is even the word 'strength' to me these days.
I think back to when I was a child and such strength found it's way in everything I did.
I see that same strength now, in other youths.
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Oh why do you delet my poems upon submission Poemhunter,
I do not alway remember to save them before subission,
and on the fly, well, I forget to copy them,
and then I get to the next page, and what do you know,
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