http://slow.writerscafe.org/STpoet The original writings of author shawnt5604 en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776002084 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 My heart has been let down before-Used and abused And left to dieStill beating alone on the floorYearning for moreAs the beat of my heart begins to slow downThe soundVibrating against the groundSo faintlyas I have failed to look aroundAnd see what was there in front of meAll .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1390894/ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1371049/ Sun sets with my emotionsAs my mind rests like calming oceansThe simple notionOf knowing my life is completeLike prints in the sand A path is chosen with my feetPeace be with the onesWho follow my trailConfiding in the oneWho suffered from two nailsHanging from that cross.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1367418/ Memories have overtaken meAs I try to concieveA new way to believeThat I can liveBegging on my kneesPraying to the lord, pleaseJust giveMe a new perspectiveJust giveMy mirror a new reflection-A new perceptionOf meI've abided by yours lawsAnd I've kept my faith strongD.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1367352/ You have beauty but I have wisdomWelcome to my kindomBecause now your the victimOf my rhythmYour insecurities are concealed byyour prideLiving in a worldFull of your liesYou hideThe real youToo far insideOf your twisted intuitionsThat I knowHave wicked intentionsD.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1367340/ There's no runningFrom the things that hold me downHead just above waterAs I'm trying not to drownFeeling like I'm lostWish I would have known the costOf my sinsThis is surely not my bestHealing wounds, so softAre my emotions that lay aloftThe waterThough my sprit is under .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1367327/ Pen still writing as the paper's covered with bloodFeelings exhausted as I decide that I'm doneEmotions so electrifiedWon't heaven's gates open up for me?Wanting to put a closure on this lifeDisheartening thinking of what I used to beHands trembling-Right hand with my penAnd my l.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1367241/ Bury all your secrets deep withinGoosebumps surface just above my skinI savoured every soft felt kissAm I the only one to missThisLove is just a camoflaugeThat hides your true feelings deep downIn a place that I knowExistsAs I missThisIf you still love me let me knowBecau.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1366153/ You flyWith those beautiful wingsThough all of your dreamsFall on meSo peacefully across the skyYou fly with such graceDisheartening how our heartsAre in a different placeHappy-You seemHappyThe envyExudes out of my bodyAs you gladlySmileIt took me a whileTo re.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1366122/ I'm holding on to a ropeThat has me twenty feet off the groundBut if I fellWould it even make a soundTo youHands losing gripAs my head starts to poundWith the fearOf you not being aroundAs you chooseTo live a lifeWithout me by your sideI can think of a million reasons why.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1366102/ You stop meJust to steal my breathThough your twisted temptations will be the deathOf meDon't you see me captivatedFrom every sweet word you speak?Or the weight on my shoulderAs my knees become weakBut you chose himWhich I willingly supportBut why make a sportOut of teasing.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1366083/ Now that it's all said and doneWind separates the love of two dovesJust when he thought he couldn't get throughHe got over youNever saw it comingShould have started runningA long time agoTime is going fastCan't take it backNo regretsOnly diminishing memoriesOf youDay fa.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1366076/ We've all been the strong guyWho helps the old woman across the streetBut have you ever actually taken the chance to meetThe person to which you did this good deedHave you ever really wondered What its likeHave you ever thought that giving them the time of dayJust mightBring a sm.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1365825/ Am I the reason you breatheOr am I the reason you cryI can't take anymoreOf wondering whyYou hideYour true feelings insideI wrap my head around your heartAlways conjuringAs it tears me apartI can't live without youBut I can't take anymoreOf the things you doI'm tornAs I p.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1365807/ Guilt kicks in as I begin to writeDon't know of a better way to fightMy tears awayWhy couldn't you just stayAll the memories I don't want to loseThough the one thing I regret losingWas youPen trembling, trying to keep the grip tightKeep writing these words as I sayThe same thin.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1365790/ The scent of a flower's spring bloomRefreshingThe season's first bird singing their tuneProgressingInto a mind so peacefully restingAs I count my forgotten blessingsApril's showers landing gently against the grassRelfectingSo helplessly upon the depth of my pastSuppressingAny p.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1365766/ CatastrophicMind just lost itWhy drop the ballWhen I've already caught itEach new timeFeeling heavier than beforeThis time when it falls downI catch it, but my knees hit the floorHow did I get hereI thought I was stronger than thisIts those days without the weight on my shoul.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1364062/ I took a walk around this worldJust to ease my mindHoping that when I got backIt would go better this timeYou call me strongBut I feel weakIts these things I say nowThat I ussually don't speakThat are the reasons whyI abideBy a life So lost insideSearchingFor a new way to.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1364040/ Vicariously I Strive and I tryDespite the demented livesThat live beneath these eyesBut today its as simpleAs a world fitting in one thimbleMind attempting to be nimbleWorking around a world so wickedLife strickenWith a realization that has me sickenedAs vicariously iLive my li.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1362139/ You swear and you lieAffecting so many livesThough i still swear that you're beautifulBut would you even cryAt my funeralThe days we were together-Now long and goneI remember the days stillIt was like a beautiful songBut all alongYour decietful eyes liedTaking back all the go.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1362129/ Today's the day I won't fade awayThe day someone will finally stand up and sayI understand everything about the wayYou prayA day where everybody gets alongA day where anybody could pick up the beatOf a brand new songA day where the kind man's wrongsAre washed awayWith the spirit .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1360327/ You tore my heart openWhat did you expect to find?Did you actually thinkYou would see that I'm truly alive?See, its these things I hideThat are the real reasons I fightThese tears I shed to the sideAre the true meaningOf the things I revealTonightYou love meBut you don't ev.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1359683/ My love feels like vengeanceAs my heart bleeds like inkScripting my story cleansesMy pain on these peices of paper, I thinkThough The tears throughout the yearsSeemingly have hidden all my fearsThe crying of my silouette's shadeFalls with tears as the ink smearsMy sorrow awayAn.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1358930/ As I sit here and try to defineMy life, as yours stands here next to mineAnd I ask myself whyAll these years we defiedThe companionship we could have had togetherAll the stormy weatherYou endured with no umbrellaIf only I could take back the yearsAnd go back and tell yaYour pai.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1358902/ Feeling it from deep withinThough currently just beneath the skinI don't know how much longer I can hideThis secret side of meEvery time I start to beginThinking of all the games I didn't winIn this mysterious game known as lifeI hold back this secret side of meThis side of meN.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1358555/ This day has come to an endBut will you ever be my friend AgainWill you stand with meIn the end?Collecting thoughtsFeelings broughtMe to this placeOf a feeling so uncertainWill you believe in meWhen I've ran out of dreamsTo chaseRealizing life's not what it seemedTo me.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1358544/ He just keeps drivingInto the midnight's skySearching for one moment's escapeFrom this life, he's strivingThough burning on the insideif he wants to make it out aliveHe knows he must changeHe knows that he's lyingTo himself, but worse- to othersAbout this life- he claimsTo be h.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1357504/ Years of pressing the pen to the paperHoping that just maybe, laterThe pain would go awayBut todayI can't help but look away-Don't want to read another pageOf the diary of painSo many heartfealt daysThat I began to writeLike a senseless attempt to fightAway my demonsSo many r.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1357490/ I like the way you scream when you know I'm rightBecause I love the make up sexAfter every time we fightThe begging for forgiveness, pleaseThe panting from your kneesIt like my favorite damn diseaseAnd I like the scratches on my backAfter your last senseless attackAt meBecause th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1357482/ I hate Feeling like thisIf you only knewAll the things I missedAbout waking up next to youIts all these things I'm missingThat has my coma risenBecause without youMy life is seemingly unconscienceRemembering the daysThat it was easy to be thoughtlessWithout ever a care in the.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1357477/ Today I'm going fishingwith not an intention in the worldthough starting to seem like when a nut is found by a blind squirrel never expected to feelsuch meaningless blissthis escape from lifeI'll surely miss because thisis a time I wish was endlessmy mind dismissesthe stresses of yesterday.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1353153/ this bottle's almost emptyfeelings slowly sinking inrealizing I'm chasing a lifethat I cannot win still I wonder whyI am dead insideonly thing making me feel aliveanebreates the true methat I hide though tonightthe only differenceis the courage running through my bloodi still feel likethis.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1353090/ as days go bytrying notto let this life pass me bytonight im reaching out but getting nothingwhy can't you seethis isn't just your lifei'm trying to get minetoo doesn't anyone around mefeel the same?i'm not worried about the blamejust tryingto vent my pain so many timesi felt like thi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1352909/ waking up next to younever fealt so realall the pain left behindbecause now I feel healedwith you by my side all my dreams through the nightcould never compfort methe way that you doso realisticis this dream come trueif you only knewhow much I adore you-all the thingsI'm going to do for you&nbs.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1341829/ Video collages of my poetry with music http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1332066/ not breathing right awayas I wasn't even sureif I wanted to wake up today but as I stand up to see the worldI remember exactly the wordsI said last night as I kneeled down and prayed thank you God for this worldfor today it is as beautiful as everand it wouldn't take a man to be wise, but .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1326192/ waking upon a day like todaytrying to think of a waynot to feel lonely standing updon't even have the energy to prayso back down I layplease somebody show me a new way to livea way that for just one momentI could feel happy to wake upon a day like todayand stand upand meet the world g.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1313130/ barrell pointed towards the airpent up angercoming from everywhere tired of the gamesdisgusted with all the waysi've been betrayed wishing all the times I prayedwould give me an answer todaybecause I'm on my last limbdon't even care about my next sins exhausted with climbingan uphill .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1313127/ looking for a four leaf cloverin a desert full of sandluck running outin a life so bland try to take it day by dayattempting to live in a new waystill it makes me laughat these words I say looking backat the biggest days in my lifehow it ever ledto that day I almost ended it allwith one kn.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1313125/ closing the backdooras I find my escapefrom this pain I don't care what they sayI love her anyway the last argument's pent up angerdoesn't cover up the wayshe makes me feelon a good day even if i was blind I could discoverthe blissful feelings I getbeneath these covers no one els.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1295515/ hoping somedayi'll find a love that flows through me like thisbecause when I close my eyesit's you I miss as I search for another oneso irreplaceableyou seem if you only knew how muchthese words I mean still feelingthe touch of your skinas I open my eyesI start to beginsearching my so.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1295513/ and I wake upsee the streets of goldi can still rememberwhen this story was told the paradise i always dreamed ofthe one i worked so hard forand now that I'm hereI could never ask for more my knees hit the flooras I thank Godthat I finally get to meet himand I pleed for the forgivenessfor .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1295510/ my words spraylike an exploding can of painti make graffiti today with my thoughts the creativity flowswhat I'll think of nextwho knows feels so greatfinally speaking my mindstarting to get a gripon these new times i stand up talland speak my wordwith this penit gets absurdcrazy like .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1291432/ i feelthe aura in the air tonightit's one of those kind of nightswhen we know we're going to do something extravegant a sense in our beingthat might have a touch of bad intentbut so smooth is our wrecklesnessas we just go with it not a care in the worldtaking this world's spin for a swirlw.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1291215/ oh but there is a reasonas you sit there and wonderwhy I am so bitterdon't you remember? it's the things you said while I was covering my earsthat are the reason for all my paranoid fearstoday you don't understand why I'm not sensiblejust take a second to recallhow you both were so cynical.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1289316/ the air around me is so coldstill rememberingso vibrantthe lessons you left in my soul still feeling the warmthyou gave mewhen there was no one left to hold always fightingand standing up for what you believed inand never forgettingthe sinsthat made you start to beginchasing the faiththat .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1288946/  chasing dreamsfeels so good this wayfeeling like I can make a differencein the world today was always afraidbut now with nothing to looseI unleash my motivationas I choose to stand tallagainst my demonsperseverance easywith all these reasonsto live my life strongshould've knownI coul.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1286458/ how easily the silence in the roomlets me recognizehow you hideall the pain you feel inside if only for one momentI thought I was to blameI'd bring an end to all the shameyou have tonight I hear the hesitation in your voiceand I admitI hate how it soundsbut we both knowit's boundto be told.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1286457/ waking up to a beautiful daythe kind that makes you want to stand up and sayI love the waythe sun rose today i press my hands together and praythat everydaycould portraythese feelings I embrace as I get my shoes lacedstuck in a euphoric dazehumming my favorite songseems not a thing could g.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1286403/ looking at tomorrowtrying to erase the sorrowas I think of todaytrying to accept the waythat things have changed loving the things you would sayto easily pick up my daynever meant to be so in veinso here in my bed I lay don't show me how it feelsto own your scarif I only knew how defensele.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/STpoet/1286402/