Dare
So what am i to write today upon this canvas bare?
That I am fine, ok or well? , as if you really care.
String sentences profound as such, that tell you all is well.
Whilst heart is shouting dare it might, in truth I am in hell.
Be still my demons for a while, bring forward silence hence,
They prey upon my very soul dispel such innocence.
I stumble through this sorry life as if caught in a spell,
Revolving faster evermore no exit can't you tell? .
No sanctions thus am I dispensed, no respite so allowed,
And stand I broken many times before the baying crowd.
But deep inside the angst of life that haunts my waking hours,
A flicker of what I could be, a glimpse of different powers.
Though life it tells a sorry tale such glimpses glow then fade,
For paths that I must follow hence have clearly so been made.
I would complain and rightly so, a noise to wake the dead,
But fear i walk amongst them now so live with them instead.
So dreams that wane upon the dusk eternal in their truth
Will haunt this life through chances missed as i lived out my youth
Life takes the forms of challenge thus to push me to my limit
If I'd been born with all those facts... would heart dare to begin it? .
poem by Dave James
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