Distant memory

2 Comments

Distant memory

There's a time in your life

There's a time in your heart

When the things you know

Begin to break apart,

And the sorrow you've had

Flies away on the wind,

The love that you've know

Dies alone in the cold,

And it's then that you see

All you ever can be

Is a distant memory


So your cards are laid out

And the wages all laid,

The pocket ace you had

Lying dead before you,

The one that you face

Laughing coldly at you

Flauting all that you knew

And all of your dreams

His royal house

Destroying you,


There's a time in your life

There's a time in your heart

When the things that you know

Begin to break apart

And the laughter you gave

Sings a mocking tune

To the pain that you feel,

Pictures suck in your soul

Telling lies of old

Where once you were happy

With all of life's games

Cos at the end of the day

You knew where you stood


When you open your mouth

Words are stolen away

And the people you love

Have left you alone,

Promises everlasting

Fading into obscurity

Your Mother's love

Fled to the vaste beyond

Your Father's love

Staying close to home,

And at the end of the day

You are all alone


There's a time in your life,

There's a time in your heart,

When you understand

Of what your a part,

Ties of blood

Long abandonned

In the harsh reality

Of selfish love,

And the sins of flesh

Have beaten you down

When the ones trusted

Took innocence for granted,

And the family you loved

Has drifted in death

Paying their sins

With their mortal flesh


When you open your eyes

Just an empty space

A heartless culling of despair

And it's then that you know

And it's then that you see

All you can ever be

Is a distant memory

Poem Comments

(2)

Please login or register

You must be logged in or register a new account in order to
leave comments/feedback and rate this poem.

Login or Register

passionsdance commented on Distant memory

06-06-2009

I enjoyed this. It certainly speaks of cycles. The ebb and flow of life and how things unfortunately change. good work

Indigogreen16 commented on Distant memory

06-06-2009

very nicely written.....................................makes you think about the cycles of life growing older........

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

Utopia666999’s Poems (160)

Title Comments
Title Comments
Chaos 0
A Shadow in the Night 0
Left In The Past 0
The Sin of Science 1
Saying I understand 0
A Single Step 0
Empty Eyes 0
A treacherous happiness 0
A Dark Fear 0
Too much to care 0
Just stare on by 0
Wondering gazes 0
Looking for you 0
Worded Life 0
An Ageing Statue 0
Natures Lost Lament 0
Your Shadows Glory... 0
Standing Tall 0
The Dance of Life 0
A Darkened Figure 0
Trembling Faith 1
Broken Bonds of Blood 0
Today it's Logic 0
Sonnet 1 - A Darker Shade from You 0
A Common Pain 1
Crumbling Life 1
Wasteful Youth 1
Black Rose 0
On Parting 1
Time 0
God's plaything 1
Cold Calculated Truth 0
Patience 0
Faded Dreams 0
A Failing Requiem 0
Say goodbye to me 1
Thoughts and words 2
For the love of One 1
Stuck in yesterday's today 1
A selfish moment of survival 0
Summer love, man or woman 0
The Onion and its poison 2
The echo of a Narcissist 0
Little Girl Alone - Forever 1
Shadow of Love 1
Settling in emptiness 0
In the falling 0
Master Race 0
Countdown, forget 0
Dangerous Seduction 1
Empty dream - Delete files Y /N ? 1
Being Human 0
Nightlife thoughts 0
The useless plea 1
City fly-by's 1
Roses 1
An innocent in war 0
A new heart 0
Erased 1
Picture life 0
Everlasting cicle 0
Footprints drowing in the sea 0
The past is... 0
Distant memory 2
A poets pain 0
A conflicted faith 0
A QUIET END 1
Strength to Weakness 0
Flat Hunting on the city streets 0
Beauty lost in reason 0
A floating rhyme 0
A smiling goodbye 2
Life's destiny 0
Rise and Fall - the lies 0
Lopsided smile 0
Be you Hero or Villain? 0
A thought 0
A realists hope 0
Falling on the Wind 1
Platform, Waiting 1
No Sun, Lost 1
Questing 4
Lessons in Pain 0
The Empty Frame 3
The fiere of Hell? 0
The window from my mind 1
Finger Memory 1
Silence in a crowded space 2
On Looking at the Past 0
The taught religion 0
Same old world, same old mind 1
Broken Tears 3
A brother's pain 0
Goodbye 1
Women, Power 1
The Last Un-answered question 3
Back to the city 0
tearless boy 0
Fire and Hope 0
Father, Mother, Child, endless cycle 2
The valley's silence 2
Laughing at you and me 0
Rain 0
A puppets dream 2
13 To 17 1
Too Late They Came 0
The Bible's evil deed 1
The Illusionist 1
The concience 1
Of Hope I Pray 0
Nobodies Wish 0
My Wish 0
A Ghost 2
Everyday 0
Fragments at the end 0
Goodbye 0
Play the tune of a Mockingbird 0
The Hunt 0
Suvival, Drifting 0
Moving to reality 0
The truth in a new day 0
The fight 0
Dreams 0
On the death of a child 0
Losing your Mind 1
Alone in the End 0
Walk With Me 3
A Road Away 2
The joining of the sexes 0
Mis-viewed Saints 0
The Empty Manor 0
Shamed 1
A Secret Sun 0
Mirror 0
My Flight 0
Decision 1
Open Eyes to the World 2
Lost 1
Flying High 0
Kick you out 0
Fire 0
The Path or A Game 0
Anger 0
New Stars 4
Smiling from the Sea 0
Women 2
The Fiction of Life 0
Fucked up World 2
A Boy, A Man, A War 1
Fooled 0
A Model's Puppet 4
Experiment...
Life
0
Leaving You 4
The difference is Love 1
A Parting of the Ways 0
Your Last Reality 0
Consorting With the Dead 0
Funeral Pyre 0
Open Eyes to The World 2
Time 1