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January, 1997

Up-dated January 22, 1997

Broken Hearted Prayer

Dear God,

I'm not having much fun,

My heart has been broken, again,

I know I'm the fool,

For falling so hard, so fast,

Why do I let myself go,

Be manipulated, mutilated,

And left alone,

Unprotected,

I wish I didn't have a care,

But I care, too much,

Too long,

Don't let go,

Please help me God,

To overcome my foolsh love,

My foolish hate,

Let me be safe,

Let me be loved

--*--

Because I Do

She didn't want to hold you or ever pull you close.

She never said you were the One she loved the most.

She wanted to tell you but she was scared.

She wanted to say she never cared.

She always told me, she never loved you.

But it breaks my heart because

I do...

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Because You Left

This place is not fun anymore
when I eat my last chocolate and
no one asks for the half of it.

This place is not fun anymore
when I have remote control and
no one is there to fight over it.

This place is not fun anymore
because you left this place.
For me, you were the fun here.

--*--

TWISTED

twisted in a mind of rage,

calling out for those who love,

i want to speak, nothing to speak of,

sorrow that they gave,

no respect for those that gave,

cring out.....

nothing.....

--*--

Because I Do

She didn't want to hold you or ever pull you close.

She never said you were the One she loved the most.

She wanted to tell you but she was scared.

She wanted to say she never cared.

She always told me, she never loved you.

But it breaks my heart because

I do...

--*--

zwerven

laat mij zwerven

zonder doel

zonder enige

hindernis

en soms dan

dat geluksgevoel

dirk versteeg s.r

--*--

Cold bodies of death,
lying,dying,decaying,
Dead asleep in grave.

Todays way of life.
Crying,living,money,love,
isn't life just great.

--*--

COME YE

Come ye...
Walk with me,
Bring your dreams,
And watch with me
The rising moon,
Float with me
'Pon lilied ponds,
Flee with me
To lands unseen,

Come with me
To the Never Never,
Where autumn'd leaves
Never fall,
Where fields of clover
Never fade,
Where winds blow
Yet the air is still,
Where be you me
And me you be....
Eternally.

--*--

The color of the sky, blue

without a cloud

cool, distant, beautiful

My pen color

which writes poetic truths

for eyes to see.

Blue, a feeling -

pain that digs deep.

I have discovered blue.

in the color of her eyes

shiny, bright, unique

never to forget -

this loneliness

which hides in the night.

Cold

the sharp winter wind of

a blinding storm

all that's left

the end

all that I have

Is a tear.

It's all I can give

from me, to you -

Blue

--*--

So many things

Remain mysteries

For they never reach

The sun's warming light

That creatures of dark

Rip apart to pieces

And feed to the night.

--*--

Cold and clear rain upon the
icy windowpane
Thunder, angry and blind
no one told me it was here
I expected snow

Doors slamming in your face
not a peaceful day among them
not one

who ever goes there
watch your step, your eyes, your ears
You all know with your smiling unchanged faces
know you never will

So smile as you laugh and that is your gift and that is you
Oblivion is dark and hellish,
don't think I enjoy it

--*--

INFINITE ZERO

You're a moron, a specter

A soul of feeble piety.

You poetess the knowledge of all

And nothing at the same time.

Nothing is part of all and you are

Living in a state of impossibility.

I would ask you to share your

Wisdom with me, but I wish not

To contain that ignorant knowledge.

I don't want to be trapped

In a dimension of infinite zero.

--*--

STEEL TOWN

after devouring fifteen

thousand men daily

the dragon stretches twelve miles

along the river

and sleeps fitfully at night

though its breath poisons our breath

and its belches bruise,

with a plum-rubescent glow,

the black horizon

still we would not murder this

sleeping brutus for

its fire bakes our daily bread

--*--

SHE ASKS

Are those your books on the shelf

Under the picture of three kids

Whose faces shine like apples?

She opens a page reads softly

Repeats what she reads

Says it sounds like a spot

Where her heart used to beat

Before she grew tits

Got pregnant at thirteen

By her dad unlucky

I guess

He tossed dice on her belly

Cries in November

Baby's birthday month

Hasn't seen baby boy

Heard him whimper once

She asks,

"Where is he

Now?"

--*--

Grayson ,Will and Galen 1996

It's like coming out of water
this love for you
the first breath being sucked inside involuntarily
the skin glistening in its new coat
the water holding me secure

over and over
though I tuck you in at night
and pull the blankets up around you
with the safe knowledge that you'll
be here in the morning


watching your waking
as if in slow motion you move
I am mesmerized by your channels
as you flow through me
circumvent my safety net that I have cast wide
upon this water


and go beyond this harbor that is my home
as you glide away from me with your smooth strokes
I will set myself to welcome each wave as it returns
I will turn the cool covers of your bed down
and pray the turbulent waters calm
so that you will someday find this love that I have known.

>Mara R. Brill


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