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Best Poems Written by Jerry Earl Ballard

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Farewell In Vitam

lying in my gyrate mind,
     I can no longer hold on to the troubles that are mine,
     they carry themselves on my back, while my tears weight down its wrath
     you tell me it is fine, but those words were never to be uttered this time

     Mourning on my depth’s duvet,
     the distortion of my strength can’t feel its warmth,
     for, it is replaced with stones, that seep through the silk 
     its floral printing brings images to my mind,
     of misfortune spreading its vines to its next kind. 

     I cannot bare my lament, nor can I feel I am brave,
     my life is burying itself away from me, enclosed in a cave,
     let me feel I have worth, do I not deserve it?
     The voices have proven to me that I am the monster imperfect

     A flower reaches out to me,
     as I touch the petals they fall off onto the ground,
     I then hold up its gray petals wishing for the life I profound 
     But I hold no patience, leaving the probability of lumen in my life to be cast

     Have I done wrong living through these stoned tears?
     I lived a burden, and lived through fear,
     can I ever feel I have been the braver one?
     No, because I have not been sincere to my lone

     My existence is withering distortion,
     its lifespan lowers as I reach my lowest point,
     you lend me your name before I go,
     cherishing this frail boy you’ve better off to know.

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Sad Man's Lullaby

As I've once have seen, tears fall down the face,
Of a lonely treasured man,
I meet realities with him through the swallow of the lament river,
Swarming of gold through from his bright tears

He's raised to believe,
Love will come, and eventually leaves,
in an underlying pain, unable to take back once its been obtained

“I will never fall in love” he says with low breath,
Those speechless words lacking its meaning,
droplets of his lumen tears blends in the sorrowful river,
those feelings he come to have was never provoked until he felt quiver 

He walks through the path, through his lonely empty dreams
“One day I, to roll” he says as he somewhat feel in his words bold
But it only lasts within the lifespan of a rose
Once to become strong until it's time is froze

The man has no more confessions to say to God,
As he feel in his lone somewhat he is strong,
With the hum of despair and whistle of madness,
The symphonic radiance escaping his lips murmurs in his song.

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Wails from Gehenna

I let myself fall into guilt, time stands still,
      you say your heavy words while I try to grasp them,
      I’m tormented by the sentences they utter speaking through my behalf 
      as I try to mutter

      You’ve led me in this dark abyss the void fully consumed me feelings all   
      blacked out,
      tell me why I cannot find the light, for your spirits are weakening me

      I’m trapped in this darkness, the demons that come from your mouth tear 
      me thoroughly,
      my yells are hollow, unable to be heard, the words grab my fragile arm 
      pulling me to my fate

      This lamentation is immortal in this realm,
      the voices call to me from the distant hallways,
      I gaze into the mirror in my hands, gleaming with rusted metal
      revealing a distorted image of me transparent and translucent

      My appearance cannot be seen as my tears fall to the surface,
      they break the glass within every drop,
      I then vanish as the vestiges of my heart meet its time,
      my light is cast away, the stygian has met me
      filling my heart with the darkness of mine.

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Harrowing Fig

I hold on the fig upon the tree, it cannot fall too far from it
if I were to pull upon it, surely it will not stay in tranquility,
as I hold it in my bear hands, I know it feels what I feel

I have experienced happiness in this woven of life,
nourishing my joy through the sun and its light,
perhaps I have been eager to stand up high in the branch,
because the light that has been too bright knew to tarnish me

Before I have came to knowing you, a door opened to my life,
I had a choice in reality whether I should run or hide, conveying myself to reveal my botheration, would it change the events that occur in my home inside?
Let alone those words enclose deeply, as I await alone for this situation to stop spilling emotions I tend to give out freely

I cannot seal myself from what I come to experience,
driven through seasonal changes, anger, and numbness the emotions I cannot cleanse,
maybe if I to abandon what is around me, then I will continue to grow,
But because I left out the will of staying strong, the water still will not flow

I am fearful of my surroundings like i’m prisoned of guilt,
The truth cannot speak itself, but only to others if it's true,
Why is it that I toss and turn on my stem? 
peddling my emotions down a thoughtful situation, but dishesitant of knowing
that what I can hope for is out of the blue

As I light my candle, in my sanctuary of peace
I put my hands together, relieved as my sorrow decease
Through my heart and soul surrendering what my mind hides beneath,
I call upon the one and only God, for he knows the path for me

As tears escape my face, I felt my stem grow stronger,
they burst out in sadness, and swiftly in a smile
I come to now redeem in what has burdened me, as I acknowledge I am
not the situations that is suddenly created,
but the light of what it can be changed to.

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By the Sea

Cold air breeze flowing over the shore, as an lifesaver floats on the glistening water illuminated by the sun, most memorable during the day as many above have fun

Frightened of the ferocious sea-beings, admiring the calm, but unaware that the center of  attention could all be placed in your palm,
Lurking beneath the blue, a scaled blue tail unseeable from the surface,
Hides the dark hues that is seen in the trenches as worthless

What is hidden in one’s heart could never be imposed,
With false memory and prevalent words under the sea cannot be disposed
Rather it stays at its peace surrounded by creatures living within,
Living among its terrible ocean trenches submerged with a spin

Eyes deep as the sea darkened with ecstasy,
That it’ll propel your gaiety through lunacy in glee,
Whirred through unbreathable currents which you’ll myopically see
Such a creature below is redundant for two hands to be.

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Hinder me, O heart

Years ago seems like weeks ago, weeks feels like days 
Of me seeing you in so many ways, such light that won’t fade
The past from me nor these sparkes say, how deeply your refinement affect me
Before you began to stray


Where has the sun gone when you're present? Have I of all been the one 
you burden unto you? No matter how much the side of this heart keeps you inside, my mind won't heedfully let you hide

Though your touches, the feeling of your hands holding mine
How much I yearn it..our fingers mangled together like a vine,
Hugs so soft and embraced around your arms, wrapping me with your charms

Let us be together, we have yet to be one
As we shall swim in one’s heart, for love to be done
If only I could get cherish your image within me,
The true comfort I yearn for will occur for us to be.

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Lingering Love

Words were lessened, hardly ever spoke
If you've let me hear you in the night sky, darling I would have stayed woke
Send me your thoughts, deliver them to my heart,
So you can hear from me when we are apart 

If you see the darkness, in the abyss
Please let me be your light,
I could bring all happiness to you
Pull you out the stygian,
If you just let me under your skin 

My dearest, in this world I have nothing to loose
But rather something to give to the special eye in my view

If only you take this stoned hand, and crystalize our love like fire with sand.