Daniel Nairn

The boy with fire in his eyes
Stands there waiting.
It is his soul inside;
It keeps him standing.
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Freeverse, mostly
Jumble of actions
Mostly thoughtless, directionless,
Hardly worth noting or reading but
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You didn't hear me.
And even if you did,
You weren't listening.
And even if you were,
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I saw you God, there in the sky
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Oh God, oh God, Dios!
Ayúdame! Ayúdame!
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Her laughter spilled into my mind
And pooled in memory
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Why can't the words I say mean what
I meant to say to you that time?
You heard my voice, but not my mind.
Those words I said: I meant them not!
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Death works slow on the wisest ones
Who undeserving bear
His practiced torments slowly tear
Life, health, pride.
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Unseeing glanced
And there again
To clog his brain
Were lines that blurred
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Look, see the heavens, canvas full of lights;
Far off the sprinkled fires majestically
Tell soft of holiness, of sovereignty,
A man can seek, but never find their heights.
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Beauty grabs my eyes and keeps them
Reason shouts, my mind objects to
Liking her, to loving her. I
Let her pass, and wait my time, but
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One and the Same as-
A lad leaving home for war,
Proud to fight-
Scared to Die
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future holds invisible
of this and that and all unknown
to us stuck here in present time
where life will coast on rollers no
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My words mean naught to you whose ear, I know,
Was tickled lightly by some promise made
With fingers crossed behind façade of love
A precedent I strive to stay as far
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This is it:
This is the end.
I've waited for this—
The final choice.
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Here am I, I try to help,
Attempt to clear away the mud.
Yet ev'ry movement shovels more
Of precious lives mixed with the muck
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Someone stop this man from speaking!
Filling me with useless chatter;
Keeping me from truly thinking;
Lying in his cold ideas,
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They will not rest in peace
Without God's peace.
They cannot be with God
Without Christ's sacrifice.
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Turn and cry
Hide your face
As the tears flow
Let misery swallow
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Illie, illie bong zak
Izzy, izzy, gong wak.
Bora koon, bora koon
Walla walla doom don;
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