Bryan Norton Poems

From calm and quiet sanity
The source of my confusion
Brought riot to reality
And force behind delusion
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What I can be has always been a part of me
A part of the heart that I never set free
Concealed in time like a distant memory
The person that I am still waiting to be
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The past reveals who I am
But not what others see
I paid for every promise made
The consequence came free
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For miles and miles of mindless devotion
I wander this earth with one single emotion
In search of the answer to appetite sweet
And to rest on the crest when my life is complete
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I want to write a poem, she said
To share what I might say
To give my views on how to live
A new and better way
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Honestly, I love the way I feel when you're with me
Especially, the way you hug and kiss so tenderly
Truthfully, I tell you now and for eternity
I will hold and keep you near me, in my loving heart eternally
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Sometimes in the evening I gaze at the sky
I ponder the moon and the stars way up high
They sparkle and shine like a diamond-filled sea
But which little star shines for me?
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Sometimes, in the dead of night
When all our fast asleep
We are startled awake by a loud and pernicious
Rapping sound, a bang bang banging sound
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The PURPOSE OF LIFE is to CARE-FOR-LIFE,
To CARE for ONE and ALL.

To love ONESELF and OTHERS too,
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If I should write a poem, my last
To celebrate my death
My cause would be, the common man
His life, his love, his breath
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