DAVID TERRY Poems

You are everywhere
No matter where I go
No matter how far away I travel
No matter how many people I see on my journey
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Walking away is not as hard as staying
It’s like praying
Conveying meaning when nobody else will hear
Or be near
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Day after day finds me one day older
In deeper, in progress, in motion, in regions colder
Doing the best I can in a world of my making
Yet thinking back to our love’s undertaking
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If I told you
That I never thought about you
I would be lying
I only think about you
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A heartbeat ago
We were letting go
On a night soft and low
We simply walked away
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The first step is the toughest
When your heart isn’t in it
When the path looks the roughest
When you believe you should quit
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I’m doing better without you
Getting up in the morning
I write the words that disturb
What still slumbers impatiently underneath
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I know what I want, and I know what it means
But what I want is really irrelevant, I suppose
To have what I want means life apart at the seams
Cutting off my face to spite my nose
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Familiar places seem foreign now
After several times back in this place
I walk down the streets that were familiar
But they were familiar because of you
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For too long it tortured me
You see
The guilty
Is free
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