Nicholas McDonough Poems

Give up the game
for you were never brave
I bury your name
in forbidden shame
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The memories fade
The past disappears
as one day ends, another begins
you've stolen my heart
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I've learned my lesson though it hurt my pride.
This wounded memory wears like a scar.
They say time will heal
but they don't know how I feel.
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Turn your mind
into a window
and the listened will lead, who follow,
I believe
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Mysteriously divided
one dreaming the other
slipping into blackened rooms;
movements slowed by the horror.
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Graceful in dialectic
tentative interest
The hurried breathless pleading
memory of loveliness pierces me,
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Knowing what was, I nolonger sleep
I've seen through all eyes, understanding runs deep
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My heartbeat slows...
the beat of my heart
slows it's rhythm
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With knowledge
comes power
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Inept certainty of reason
conflicts with the perplex
uni-formal existence of
balance between
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