Edwina Reizer Poems

As we age and become older each day
Too many of us have lost our way.
We become accepting and await our fate.
Usually a little in fear we wait.
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I forget sometimes
What it was like to be young.
But then comes that instant
Like a word on the tip of your tongue
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I have known piety.
I have known sin.
Both have taught me
the dilemma I'm in.
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Had I known then what I know today
Would that have changed anything?
Back then I'd not been ready for it,
Not ready to accept life's sting.
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My mother, whose courage was like a rock
always mystified me.
She took that grit and bravery
that was always she.
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Who of us can escape death's scene
and if we could what would it mean?
Having to face a world gone mad
that can't seem to understand good from bad.
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Deliver me from darkness.
Deliver me from pain.
Deliver me from loneliness
and let love remain.
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Can you place your heart under the ground
and keep it buried there?
Or would it just burst forth like a skeleton
and try to come up for air?
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Why do I dream of impossibilities?
I wish them to leave my head.
Why don't I dream of practical things
while I am in bed?
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Have a toast and drink to me
and taste the sweetened drink.
And I, myself shall have a sip
before I sit and think.
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