Devil May Care Poem by Godfrey AnguaMante

I do not remember since last I smiled,
So genuinely to soothe my mind
The lonely years that I have compiled
Are filled with tears for the woes of mankind

I am a slave to my beliefs
A feeling of tenderness, a feeling of care
A drink too many always relieves
Me from feeling hopeless and shedding a tear

I need to know now, I really do
If you are capable of loving again
I keep thinking, thinking of you
And it’s driving me quickly insane

Do you still remember the times we shared,
Together you and I some time ago
Reminiscing about them is much preferred
But the past is past, that much I know

In keeping with faith I learnt to hope
But learnt to trust in nothingness
Oh see me hang with my own rope
After several years of tears and mess

In dreary thoughts that give me pride
I think of tomorrow with my hopes so weak
The nothingness in which I confide
Sometimes tells me tomorrow’s bleak

And what am I to speak of love?
And wish that someone could share my pain
But thinking of that, which I cannot have
I see that dying is my best gain

As much, I see the world so dull,
And men trusting in faith as best they can
But as I wait for nature’s call
I see the vanity in being a man

It’s been hard enough to live to die
With tears and grief, my only friends
But I’ll try to live or die to try
And hope that you don’t feel my pain