14

Romantic idealism
Renders me undesirable.
A face showing signs of wear . . .
A smile that's seen better days . . .

Long nights keep me awake . . .
Heat rises to a cold bed.
Sunrise and I roll over,
There's no one there to stop me from falling off the edge . . .

Thoughts of settling creep into my mind and I bury them.
I still long for the lady held captive between lines of blue and black.
We only meet when my eyes close and she's willing to visit.
Often the love affair dissolves in late morning fog,
The sun burns her visage away . . .

Countless faces that never smile in the hereafter are lost to the past.
Doors locked from the opposite side,
And it makes me wonder why I ever left.

Everything is the same, another 14th passes without event.
A holiday that has no name, no color, and no shape
But the heart inside my chest that breaks.

Black blood courses through my veins . . .
The curse cast double.
Pain of dissociation coerced by the trait
That builds the barrier unbreakable . . .
I remain in the middle.
A path that shows itself to be a dead end . . .
The finish line has vanished from sight.

All that remains is the burn,
The search for a place
To drop my new name
And meet the end to a game of cat and mouse I play
With this life of pain.

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

Sidecar’s Poems (49)

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Around the Corner 0
Spontaneous Combustion (Trouble, Danger) 0
You Have Been So Swallowed 1
Being More Christ-like 1
Salty Seas Bring Me Back 0
This One I Actually Wrote For You 0
Never Trust Wal-Mart Employees With Y's In Their Names 0
If I Gain You to Lose My Own Soul . . . 0
South to Shore Points 2
Bodyguard with Benefits 0
In Search Of . . . 0
The Fall of Salem III (The Last Offense) 1
The Fall of Salem II (The Forest) 0
14 0
Discipline II (Cross-Examin
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0
Discipline 0
The Aftermath of Slumber 1
Memoirs of Malfunction (Part II) 0
Alone In the Dark 1
Insomnia 0
Exit 9 2
Salty Seas Bring Me Back . . . 0
Cue Ball 1
Withdrawal 2
Memoirs of Malfunction (Part I) 1
The New Portal II 1
The New Portal 1
Emptiness 1
Hwy. 37 1
The Silence 2
Missiion Briefing/Stal
l Out
2
The Fall of Salem 1
Apology 1
Arsen & Overseas 2
Stranger's Rendezvous 1
Lead Her Not Into Temptation . . . 2
Death on the Expressway 1
Romeo and Juliet 2
The Depths 1
Dissertation on Addiction 4
Interstate 5 1
The Knowledge 1
The Plummet 1
NorthWest Dreary 2
Warmer Thoughts on A Cold Walk 2
NJ Turnpike 5
Transcontinen
tal Desperation
5
No Mattress In the Park 3
We The People 3