Pondering Portrait

Crying out to be heard
But taunting echoes scream back
A reminder of my abandoned self
In this hollow emptiness I yield
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Why can’t you look at me?
Why can’t you see?
These tears that glisten
So shamelessly
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I hope you’re happy
When you see her smile
Illuminating up your world
Left breathless all the while
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What does it mean
When someone
Can break your heart?
When they do it
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Dimness clouds awareness
Concealing groping eyes
From registering any truth
That’s been smothered by it
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Buried amidst time past
And memories long replaced
Within the tunnels of my mind
Is the ghost of your face
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Ghostly images of the past
Special memories here to last
Like a pleasing aroma of pleasure
A shard of my life, I’ll always treasure
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Withered pain
Torn out thoughts
Refusal to embrace
The threads of destiny
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Untouchable, unreachable
A place unknown
Never conjured up
But one i proudly own
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With heavenly grey skies
And their presence till tomorrow
With a depthless darkness
And the endlessness of sorrow
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What keeps him walking
Through the path of thorns
Without ever stopping
And his feet all worn
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A ferocious dream
Sparked by imagination
Harboured by a desire
Never to be fulfilled
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A still emptiness
Within my mind
No longer in its presence
Is a lost memory
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A stolen treasure
That does not belong to me
That should never be mine
But that I’ve claimed
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Whistling whispers past my ear
Too undefined for me to hear
Though felt through my every sense
In agony, a mind in repentance
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Gentle, crumpling rippling
Crushing across the surface
Wave upon wave, again and again
Giving a blurred reflection
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Hopeful eyes, twinkling
Upon a lifelike dream
But crumbles to the touch
Sadly not what it seemed
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A broken smile
One that reveals
An unfortunate trial
That I hadn’t asked for
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Hiding behind lies
Shrinking away from truth
Shielded by denial
From what they know
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I made up this story
Inside my head
Living it’s tragedy
And dark thoughts I’d tread
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