By Tygerose
Date: 19 April 1997

Life's Lonely Roads

Hello...



You do not know me

yet I am here

You never will see me

yet I am near

You shall never hear me

yet I am close

You can never touch me

for I am a ghost



        I have visited your site many times, and I was touched

by some of what I have read.  I know I don't write good poetry,

but I write truthfull poetry.  Please consider some of my work

for your page.

                Tygerose



AROUND THE BEND



I have no more tears left to cry.

Not for you

Now you are just a guy

I’ll say I once knew

We never talk of future things

we never talk at all

You went from smiling to mean

I guess it’s now my call

Questions go unanswered, and

thoughts are left unheard



I have no more smiles left to give

None that you’ll see

I know I have to learn to live

my life for me

I have given you all I shall give

to bad you can’t see

My final good-bye will be forever

and it is waiting--just around the corner.







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Lonely are the days

lonely as the nights

I lay awake in this lie

that I call existence.

Lonely are the tears

silent as I cry-

Living in a dream that

is no longer mine



DAYDREAMS



How many nights, passed into

infinity, have I sat

thinking of the day I’d meet you

face to face,

heart to heart?

How many endless days ebbed

into eternity while I pondered

words we would speak

face to face,

heart to heart?

How many eternal faces burned

smiles into my memories

before I met you

face to face,

heart to heart?

And how many fatal tears

flow into the abyss that is nothing

as I remember you

face to face,

heart to heart?



And how many smiles will be

bittersweet, as memories of you

Faded is your face,

face to face

Faded is our love,

heart to heart.





VANISHED



Where do they go--

those precious days of youth.

Those minutes pass, those memories,

why do they fade?



Where do they go--

the childhood friends of yesterday.

They were just down the street,

playing; but now they’re gone.



Where do they go--

when they run away, and

leave you here, alone?



Where do they go--

those dreams you always cherished;

Of growing up happy, free, and loved

by family, friends, and life?



Where did it go--

my childhood was over before it

started.  I blinked, and now it’s gone;

where did it go?



WISDOM



As I look back through the past

from where I stand today

I see the things I thought would last

crumble and fall away

To the deepest depths of my broken heart

forever there to stay

The pieces of what fell apart

haunt me still today.



At memories that pass I cry

and smile at quite a few

I count them as the years go by

so many make me blue

Faces in front of me parade;

all the people I once knew

Then one by one I’d see them fade

every time I said ‘Adieu’.



Yes life has changed, and I with it

no longer running free.

And now I come to just sit

and spend time alone with me.

Time is time, don’t waste it now

in the past; this I see

Let the wonder of life show you how

and let it teach you how to be.







BROKEN TEARS



As it slides down my cheek

it cuts like glass,

but hurts worse.

It’s scalding heat is ignored

as my eyes ask the question,

Why?

But there is no answer,

you are gone, without a trace,

you left me behind.

On my own, alone and scared,

I turn to you for help,

but get none.

A picture’s worth a thousand words

as it silently stares,

but pictures don’t talk.

As my tears, as sharp as glass,

slip through my fingers

cutting, bitting

Memories of you, falling away

like broken glass

from broken windows.

Broken tears.