Trying to squeeze life's baggage into my poetry backpack.

ONE DAY ALONE
by Maverick.214

Crashing waves bring joy to my deafened ears,

But it's never enough in the convolution of dreams

that remind me of bitterness and tears.

Where sarcasm has replaced boyish confidence,

I know there is a lonelier place deep within

that rots on jagged shores far from Providence.

As surely as suns and moons infinitely rise and fall,

The place where I left you is a cemetary

that raises ghosts of yesterday who always call.

When I realize that I am truly dead,

You will be free from the pangs of regret

that ripped my heart like a page from a book

never to be read.