Count My Dead

By shadowsinthelight

Once again, I can’t sleep

Tally my dead, you count your sheep

Why do I care, no escape in dreams

I should know by now



I’m so tired, getting old

Friends are ash or decomposed

Memories choke me with pain

What is, what might have been



Once filled with heaven, now empty as hell

All the myths have been dispelled

The sun refuses to shine

Light is for youth, darkness mine



I feel I can’t I go on

I admit, love is gone

Everything and everyone

So far behind me…

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Consider the gathering clouds

Remember a mountain, now weathered down

Don’t waste tears on desolate ground

You should know by now



















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© 2008 shadowsinthelight
Published on Wednesday, October 29, 2008.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: amazing...nice creativity

  • Echoes of Orpheus On Thursday, November 20, 2008, Echoes of Orpheus (359)By person wrote:

    Glad to see you post, I don't think I've had a chance to see that in my time here. Love your work though. There's always more fire to find in life

  • technicolour-girl On Wednesday, October 29, 2008, technicolour-girl (22)By person wrote:

    Very beautiful.

  • A former member wrote: very poisonous very poisonous nicely done on your mind

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