Holding Out Poems - Poems about Holding Out

...My son My daughter Remember When the truth gets choked out by questions I have commanded you to be strong and courageous But for some reason I keep letting my flesh direct me, Thus I walk ......Read the rest...

...My eyes stare straight, fixated on something in the distance, humming a song that would send chills, if you ever got the chance to listen. A padded cell and a straitjacket, the doctor giving ......Read the rest...

...Alone… would I be wrong to call myself a fool? Knowing full well, alone one never is? Better, much better to say ‘Alone from’. Alone from friends, from loved ones From employment, joy and/or......Read the rest...

...The neighbor brought her weirdo kids in today. Why would she? We have nothing kid-like to do or play. They ran right over to my Christmas tree and said look at this. One was holding my treasured t......Read the rest...

...’m tired of being left in the cold only to find you turned on a fire to save me from going alone The strings attached to your sins were bowling balls coming at me for your so called win. And ......Read the rest...

...A sense of event never left my mind, I still believe there is a lot of magic in our world full of kind: ,,Who steers me?", was question that will always arrive. I fell my warm tears dripping dow......Read the rest...

...I'm slowly evaporating from this verbal tennis match For some reason we continue to give breath to these vapor windy circles Brewing a coffee tornado that is going to spill all over my shirt And ......Read the rest...

...Her name was Charlie And she is what I’d call poetry In the way that dreamers hope to capsule up and be immortalized beyond the two hands that control it all A wildflower twisted up with a messy......Read the rest...

...Bringer of ghosts Wandering through Memory threads a same needle. ___*___ I knew him Loved him Betrayed him In, from part of another t......Read the rest...

...Rolling your eyes, the chair in your hand fronting me, pulling my backpack with both hands, eyebrow risen, movement of mine you quickly stepping aside holding the back of your backpack, the accid......Read the rest...

... "A Perfect Murder Scene" underneath the gun metal clouds two bodies imprinted splayed bookmarked at the waterline uncannily close distance would never separate ......Read the rest...

...I Twisted chains bite deep Terrorizing the flesh And making it cry A small beam of light In an otherwise dark room All that one could cling to The steady drip, drip, drip But the light pr......Read the rest...

...You holding hands with my loneliness Your place The thief in my bed The beggar in my dreams Nothing sweet will ever belong to me I'm at odds with the life I'm permanently renting But you I'll......Read the rest...

...Lost in labyrinthine lanes of midnight's embrace, Where ghostly gas lamps gleam, casting silhouettes of grace, Their luminescence lingers on cobblestone veins, Chattering footsteps echo, bound in ......Read the rest...

... I walked the garden path holding all the intimate hands, nurtured in the impermanent world the hope of durability of me loved and belonged, and me owning and retaining. Times changed, didn’t ......Read the rest...