soul's desires displayed
distant applause echoing
from some secret love
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too long in suspense
if you love me you must tell me
lest i fade away
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here within my words
all the hopes and dreams that died
pretend they still live
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lifetime of sadness
trying to remember why
i keep on hoping
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poems for someone
who never cared about me
yet i write for her
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just sad words today
alone on a sea of blue
no island in sight
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dreams of paradise
place where someone notices
my lone existence
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why bother to write
none will read who understand
or who even care
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time and i move on
slowly my existence fades
only words remain
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as the pictures fade
fingertips touch photographs
as if they were real
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only my dry tears
leaking from wells of woe
speak of my sorrow
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who you are inside
not the outer shell you wear
is who i will love
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then there comes a day
when your loneliness feels like
an absent lover
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things i write for you
though you may never know i do
but i still have hope
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this sad truth of mine
no one's loved me like you could
if only you would
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sad you only care
for poetry's play of words
of love we can't share
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we've no memories
but those made into verses
as a poet dreams
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i write with fingers
laying words upon your skin
dear naked pages
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how may i touch you
lead you to ecstasy's edge
leap over with you
Donovan Baldwin