Yesterday Is Away Poem by Dale Barnes

As I stretched out my fingers,

And there was the Tear that I Made.

Her eyes I didn’t Deserve…

Her once Welcome Flesh…Now Shackled.


Not mine.


Someday’s are Yesterdays that you let Escape.

And when they are gone… They are gone Forever.

Plan well your Garden, as if it were Eden.

Therein lies either your Salvation or Destruction.


A new Pain has Set Sights on my Soul,

As I Drive my Mind down the off ramp of Despair

...As her Tears were Spat into my Palm.

It glistened… as an Angry Pearl.


Some Tears are as Pearls, Born through Time,

Sometimes Deserved…Sometimes Sublime.

So some are Yearned…as some are Earned,

When you are the Creator…Everything Burns.


Only Time can kill the Melancholy,

Blood and Bone…Mere Hostages.

In the Train Wreck of Bad Decisions…

Decisions of Yesterday become Today’s Incisions.



Love Well...or Never... Yesterday is Gone.




© DRB 2009