Pondering Portrait

Why can’t you look at me?
Why can’t you see?
These tears that glisten
So shamelessly
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Crying out to be heard
But taunting echoes scream back
A reminder of my abandoned self
In this hollow emptiness I yield
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I hope you’re happy
When you see her smile
Illuminating up your world
Left breathless all the while
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What does it mean
When someone
Can break your heart?
When they do it
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Dimness clouds awareness
Concealing groping eyes
From registering any truth
That’s been smothered by it
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Buried amidst time past
And memories long replaced
Within the tunnels of my mind
Is the ghost of your face
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Withered pain
Torn out thoughts
Refusal to embrace
The threads of destiny
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Untouchable, unreachable
A place unknown
Never conjured up
But one i proudly own
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With heavenly grey skies
And their presence till tomorrow
With a depthless darkness
And the endlessness of sorrow
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An escalated giddiness
A light feathery tickle
Itching up my throat
Bouts of laughter can only satisfy
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I am held frozen by the ice
My world ceases as I await
For the anticipated warmth
To gnaw away the frozen edges
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A dignified desire
Subtly whispered
Only to be spoken
Through muted eyes
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Could it be
That the truth is masked
By a mere facade
Of cunning deception
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Etched in hollows of my heart
Encrypted in blood lies a secret
Locked away under layers to deceive
Rests the part of me that I have kept
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A cradled thought
Sheltered in the midst
Of the tunnels in my mind
For me to treasure
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With a beating belief
And a souring spirit
With fluttering faith
And the strength to bear it
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Ghostly images of the past
Special memories here to last
Like a pleasing aroma of pleasure
A shard of my life, I’ll always treasure
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What keeps him walking
Through the path of thorns
Without ever stopping
And his feet all worn
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A ferocious dream
Sparked by imagination
Harboured by a desire
Never to be fulfilled
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A still emptiness
Within my mind
No longer in its presence
Is a lost memory
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