Robert R. Railey

Loneliness

For the majority of us mere mortals, some of the most heart wrenching times that we'll ever have to experience will occur when we are alone: thankfully, though, many of those feelings of loneliness will last for only a short period of time; and yet, we know that those feelings will most likely stay buried somewhere deep in our souls
Though as a rule, we have found that the best way to correct a situation of that nature is for us to focus our attention on helping others; at times, however, that particular remedy can seem to be woefully inadequate
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Fortnight

Time measured only by days and weeks
Can never fully describe the terrible loneliness that
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Harkens back To?

My father once said that the only thing good about the
Good old days is that they are now, good and gone
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Kathy's Quest

As elegant as the butterfly, who flits about the sky, is she; and as
graceful too, as the monarch who, reigns supreme in time and space
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A Shabbily Dressed Man

To some of his peers he must have appeared to be less than, but to those of us who'd known him before his fall we believed that he was still a good man
Nowadays, though, it's politically correct to say that a person who's in such a rundown condition must have fallen through the cracks; but to me, that explanation doesn't go quite far enough
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Shelf Life

On this earth, but a wink or two,
Before we're called to answer
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Restful

As a boy, I would oft-times walk
Down a rugged dirt path
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Splendor

The Bible tells us that earthly sights of grandeur cannot ever
Compare with Heaven
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Feelings

Our emotions change us just like the weather
When a single word from the one we adore
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Dearest Eunice

Petals of delicate and fragrant flowers abound when feelings
Surround-
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Springtime

The harsh reality of living with the cold
Comes thankfully to an end each spring
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Mr. Argyle

Once upon a time there was a sock who suddenly found himself all alone in the drawer that he'd once shared with his lovely mate
He knew, of course, that the washday had already come and gone; but where was Mr. Argyle's sole mate, he asked?
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Lead, by any other Name

Who amongst us could have ever guessed that we would never again
have to own a pencil sharpener
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Tacky
(That's just plain tacky, ma'am)

The worst thing in the world, for a man to see, is a woman that
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On Misty Mornings

On misty mornings, the path to the
Barn was so worn down by the
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The Fields of Home

Back home we believed that Blue Racer
Snakes were made mostly for chasing
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Appointments
(Fifteen minutes early)

The clock is ticking; will we be late? An appointment is a
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Ode to a Memory

For years, it seems, we were almost inseparable
For back then you were still a major part of my life
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Phobias

The stark, dark-night is of fear itself, but it's not the night that we fear most, it's the thoughts in our minds of a danger that's near
By day, our most secret thoughts may try to hide away, but they must eventually come out to play, and they usually do so at night
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Eerie

Mysterious and chilling, are ever the feelings, that never seem to leave us; been there before, in your first life, possibly, and you know what they'll say without even hearing
Stranger than fiction, but more real than history, is the act of living while still fearful of the mystery
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