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20 Dec 2013 3 Comments
in December 2013, poetry Tags: future, life, past, present, time
Staying only a while
short brief fleeting
here then gone
forever moving
Past long gone
future not arrived
present counted in
only seconds
Each one small
gone in a blink
wasted on so much
frivolity
Once gone
never to return
lost in the sea
of what was
attend to the
here and now
before it is
lost and forgotten
Once gone it
can never be
repeated
time
14 Dec 2013 Leave a comment
in December 2013, poetry Tags: future, life, living, past, time
Past is gone
future not yet here
there is only
now
Memories no regrets
over what was
now is all
we have
Tomorrow awaits
but is not
reside only in
the now
This moment
nothing more
live in this
now
Shake off
the past
do not worry
for the future
Now today
this instant
now is all the
time we have
10 Apr 2013 2 Comments
in April 2013, poetry Tags: gone, heart, lost, past, soul
Gone
so completely
like a vapor
as if never here
my heart still remembers
soul that aches for you
memories are all that are left
still remember the pained tears
all the wasted years
no true closure
not completely
Gone
07 Apr 2013 2 Comments
in April 2013 Tags: choices, decisions, lies, past, truth
Once, when I was less
than what I am today
I let myself think
that it was just okay
The choices that were made
once, when I was clouded
and the wisdom I once had
was dark and shrouded
Down the path
to be deceived
my own version of the truth
I then believed
To almost lose it all
throw everything away
a decision based on lies
once, when I was less than what I am today
22 Apr 2012 2 Comments
in April 2012, poetry Tags: future, life, living, past, present
There is no promise of tomorrow
no guarantee of another day
nothing to assure a life lived longer
no promise one can have
Yesterday is gone past now dead
those things mean nothing now
forgotten pains worthless hurts
now past away into shadow
Tomorrow not promised not even here
no need to worry or to fret
nothing one can do about what is not here yet
something that is only a possibility
There is only today only this moment
everything else means little
one promise only to live in this day
for it is all we truly have
11 Apr 2012 2 Comments
in April 2012, poetry Tags: future, hurt, life, love, past, stronger
The past serves only one purpose, to make you stronger
to learn and move on
to let go and grow
to never look back always forward
Those who hurt you only serve to make you stronger
every lie and betrayal
every unkind word and deed
every fresh stab of the knife
only gives you strength
There is no life living in the past
dwelling on things gone and meaningless
there is only what’s ahead
the future and what you make of it
No need to live in constant blame
to reopen the wounds of the past
they are gone and done
and you can now choose to live stronger
04 Mar 2012 10 Comments
in March 2012, poetry Tags: emotion, feelings, love, memories, past
Somehow the past remains at the edges
lapping against the mind as waves upon the sand
taking a bit here and a bit there leaving no trace
and yet you feel it there a shadow and a thought
You believe that you’ve moved beyond the past
that regret is not something you live with
but at the edges its cold and icy fingers reach in
and you can barely feel it
You work to stay in the center avoiding the dark edges
keeping the shadows of what was out of the what is
pushing down the memories pushing back on the waves
always reconstructing the wall
The memories they whisper they brush at your mind
each one growing fainter and yet the icy touch still there
time to push back move away towards the center
live as if they don’t exist
12 Apr 2011 4 Comments
in April 2011, poetry Tags: emotions, memories, past, regret, shadows, strength
And lo though I walk through this life with no regret
the shadows they follow me still
the past is gone but unforgotten as yet
it lingers at the corners against my will
And lo though I walk knowing it is better now
the stitches of the wounds remain
to completely erase rewind forget somehow
these things I cannot yet attain
And lo though I walk in love and light
the darkness that once was creeps in and out
even though I resist with all my might
just a little twinge just a little doubt
And lo though I walk renewed and stronger
the shadows remain just out of reach
wishing them gone to be here no longer
but there are still lessons they must teach
Deborah Horton Writing 