Beyond the Pain » Poetry http://www.beyond-the-pain.com Support for creative people blocked by pain, fear or chronic illness. Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Courage http://www.beyond-the-pain.com/courage/ http://www.beyond-the-pain.com/courage/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:58:37 +0000 Snoop http://www.beyond-the-pain.com/?p=95 This poem is especially for Howard P.

COURAGE

Cowards

are we all,

Who easy choices

make.

Fear whispers

In every ear,

Few choose not,

To heed.

Seldom to us

Is given

Greatness.

Yet,

It is not

The Grand Acts

That make us

Great.

Rather,

Small choices,

Carved out of despair;

Forged in pain:

Choosing life’s

Hurtful embrace.

Not for other’s

Scant approval,

But for

Self;

We do that

Which we

Must do.

Living for

Ourselves

Is never

Easy;

We stand

Alone,

Balanced

At the Edge.

Giving no thought

To others,

We fall among

The Uncaring;

Heeding too much

Another’s call,

We Join

The Sheeplike masses.

And, yet

ALL this knowing,

We DARE

To say,

“I CHOOSE.”

© 1987, 2009 Lyle T. Lachmuth, All Rights Reserved Adapted from “New Cycles” by permission of the Author

]]> http://www.beyond-the-pain.com/courage/feed/ 2 The Sadness Is With Me http://www.beyond-the-pain.com/the-sadness-is-with-me/ http://www.beyond-the-pain.com/the-sadness-is-with-me/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:10:23 +0000 Snoop http://www.beyond-the-pain.com/?p=92 The Sadness Is With Me

The Sadness

sits with my heart.

Alone

I feel,

So, much alone

and, sometimes

I want to die,

and, sometimes

I want to run away,

For the Sadness

leaches through my soul,

Permeating:

Soul, body, mind, and marrow,

and fills

my being with

naught but pain.

Yet,

run I not;

And, die I not;

For somehow

This familiar melancholy

comforts me

like sipping

a soothing elixir

and, so

I wallow in the

pain

and, through

immersion

emerge

renewed,

revitalized,

and

refreshed.

Copyright 2009, Lyle T. Lachmuth, All Rights Reserved


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I Want To Flee

 I want

To flee

Into the empty pages

Of the night.

 The pain

Crushes me

And I cannot

Resist.

 

The pain owns

My soul,

And me

And wants

To be repaid

In currency

I seem to not have.

 

So, in agony

I sit puzzling,

Hoping,

Seeking escape

But

Know not

The path,

The means,

Nor it seems

Much else.

 

What’s best

For us?

 

I still have

No fucking

Clue.

©2009 Lyle T. Lachmuth All Rights Reserved.

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SUPPORT 

Each of us
Is alone
And
Yet not.

 None but us
Lives inside
The body
And
The mind.

 None other can
know, taste,
savour the fear, terror,
happiness, delight,
and ecstasy.

 Pale empathies
We share.
Yet, living inside,
Alone
Yields not
Completeness.

 In Truth
We are islands.
We alone choose
Insular status
Or
Construct bridges,
Causeways,
And, paths to others.

 Connections are made
Not from one
Rather the reaching
Out of two.

 You will always
Be an  island.
But need not
Alone entirely be.

 It is but for you to choose.

© 1987 Lyle T. Lachmuth

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