Chip Schaller Poems

Broken hopes and shattered dreams
Despair begins it's cruel attack
Faceless fears and voiceless screams
Hosted by the ghost in black
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My reverie door to a new life in a new town
Slammed shut with the hell of coming down
My numbed escape of visions and dreams
was changing to terrified sobbing screams
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Weary from fighting the personal conflicts
Battling all of the children within
Always a struggle to maintain composure
Walking away from the firing pin
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All the world's a Facebook page
A stage with faceless crowds
Cartoon hugs, the only love
In this insipid cloud
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My last name isn't alcoholic
Addict not my middle name
Why should addiction pre-define me?
Won't accept some branded shame
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Chided chains secure the patient
Jurors gather for the show
Judges callously are saying
What you reap is what you sow
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I was plucked from the nest, left at the door
Had no mothers warmth, felt her no more
She did what she had to, was left with no choice
I would never meet her, never hear her voice
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Drove her girls home from school that May
Seemed like just another day
She always liked their after school songs
But she woke that day feeling something wrong
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