Tra Merryman Poems

Hurting people all around
Like a plague throughout the town
Jobs less, dollars few
No one knows what to do
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It’s Christmas time with joy and cheer,
The day to celebrate the birth of Christ is near
Good tidings, Christmas carols, people scurrying all around
Let’s spread the good news of the Child born in Bethlehem
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I want to go forward
They want me to stay behind
I say forgive and forget
Put it all in past times
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I love you
let me help
You’re in pain
feel alone, feel ashamed
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I said I love you
You said I love you too,
But wait
You said you want me to be your wife;
Be your life
But wait
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Interrupted like a light storm blowing through the night
You entered and changed my life
I thought it could never be again then I realized it was never
The way it should have been in the first place.
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What it would be to be free.
Is my Father in Heaven looking down on me?
I sit here in this cell, wondering about all the wrong I have done
Wondering when this boring life will be alive again; is fun.
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People hurting all around
Vicious gossip and rumors throughout the town
Whispers, mutters, fires …
Strength, weakness, lost desires.
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Laughter, joy, cheerful hope
Pain, sorrow, sadness
Time to let go …
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I just got the news today;
The doctor gives me a year
Change the way I am living; that’s what the doctor has to say
Don’t eat this; don’t do that, stop drinking beer …
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