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Poems in R
by
Douglas L. Simmons
Copyright © 2005 by Douglas L. Simmons
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Reeling
Well the feeling
just keeps growing,
and you're reeling
just from knowing.
Think it over,
and then love her
before you go for
any other.
She was so much warmer
and she was so very tender.
You didn't want to harm her,
no, you didn't mean to bend her.
Well the feeling
just keeps growing,
and you're reeling
just from knowing.
Think it over
and then love her
before you go for
any other.
Doug L.
3 October 1973
(Home) Mainz, Germany
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Richard
All of your fortresses
are fading away fast.
Truly, how long did
you expect them to last?
What will you do when
the walls are all down,
and you face your demons
alone on the ground?
This is not to grieve you,
or try to deceive you,
or sell away all of
your thoughts to my sadness;
but only to warn you.
I dare not do less.
I have spoken to the wizard
who rides the grey lizard,
these are the futures
in his crystal ball.
Though they haven't yet been,
and you have not seen,
take heed and believe them
for you can not leave them
I know they are true.
Numberless dead men,
and the one who has led them
sits alone crying,
left on his own trying
so hard not to fall.
And you who have given
this legacy of dying
to those who were living,
sit in all of your power,
in your darkest hour
alone on your wall.
Did you make these visions,
or did they just come?
And if you can face them
how will you replace them
now that they are done?
Doug L
25 October 1973
Mainz, Germany
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