Ricky Randall Poems

I brought a rose from home one day, for Agnes Teggerdine
For out of our whole class she was indeed the most fine
She had all the other fourth grade boys waiting in line
But it was I who held the white rose that would surely make her mine
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I was too late to the scene of the fire.
The firefighters had already rescued you.
Guess I wanted to be the hero.
Guess I won't be.
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Monday night is sure the clincher
You must know the heart beats true
Emotion pouring like an avalanche
On the street his eyes meet you
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Red company marches in
I scream! I'm livid!
This can't happen again!
In my room,
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Some may say skeletons are meant to live in closets
Others dissent from the idea grand scale
Yet there are plenty of cretins worldwide who, instead, dwell within them entirely
Not parts of them, but all of them, in a dark room they built themselves
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The people of the night
Surely know when death will come
But it's far too stern to hinder
When there's nowhere left to run
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Watching rainfall from my windowsill
I see the walk we never had
When what could have made me happy
Is enough to drive me mad
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Do you really want to live forever anyway?
Time is surely precious
But only because we're limited
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Where has she gone?
I would visit that room 'most every night
But now I know she's no longer there
That is to say, if she ever was
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You were in my dream
In a place that I'd forgotten
It was only last night
And at first I didn't want it
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