Daniel Goncalves Poems

At times hard work goes unnoticed,
Torment builds inside you, pain seeps from within.
You wonder how and why and yet you keep working hard.
You pushed like you never pushed before and yet remained invisible.
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Finally over, we returned from war,
I went to see her, our love was no more.

Broken, tattered and barely sane,
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To: My Long Lost Love, N.

My biggest regret is losing you, your kiss so perfect and loving, the way you looked at me, your smile and most of all the words, "I love you", so true, I still feel it after all these years. I still see you as I did and always will, you're perfect in my own eyes. My heart and soul still yours forever like the carving I made you on that tree.
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Our Brotherhood,
Death tried to break,
The horrors, the loses were hard to take.
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I open my eyes, and all I see is darkness.
I put my hand in the snow, and feel neither cold nor pain.
I walk day after day over open flames, yet I do not ignite.
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I'm off to the army, and it kills me to go,
Knowing that you'll miss me as tears start to show.

Our love is powerful and our love will never break,
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To live, to fight to lose the one you love,
The horror the pain, the fall from above.

A rifle held high and heart beating fast,
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For the one who fought and took shrapnel in his back,
He looked around as he braised for the attack.
Falling to the ground, blood spilling out,
The pain he felt as he let out a shout.
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You say you love me, yet where were you when I needed you most,
Where were you when the bridges lined up with people as my friends passed below?

Where were you when my brother was in the hospital,
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Truly Seeing Me


He looks at me so intently, with those big brown eyes. In a way that I feel he really sees me. No matter what complications may arise. Your heart is honest and true, without fear and inhibition, you give it your best no matter what you've been through and that takes much courage and determination.
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