John Thorkild Ellison Poems

It always fills me with surprise,
The way you control my thoughts and hypnotise
My heart, whatever little disguise
I care to wear, however nonchalant
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When I think of my increasing age
I'm filled with a surge of impotent rage,
How dare the gods who rule the earth
Think so little of men and what their lives are worth? !
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The days hurry by and it's always the same,
My heart misses a beat when I hear your name,
This poem's in earnest, it's not some kind of game,
But please rest assured, it's not you that's to blame!
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If only I could hold your hand,
If only you would understand,
But I know that touching has been banned,
If only I could hold your hand!
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She's no-one's fool,
She's smart and cool,
All the boys fancy her at school!
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Perhaps you wonder that I no longer speak
About your beauty and the love I feel?
I will keep silence, I wouldn't have the cheek
To soil your loveliness with men's cheap words -
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We can't go on like this, it'll have to stop,
I've loved you for too long, felt too much pain -
I expect you wondered when the penny would drop,
An obsession like this can drive a man insane!
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Numb with pain as my good friends die
I'd weep if there were any tears left to cry -
You must be blind if you wonder why
I'm looking at life with a jaundiced eye.
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Well, well, well! You've finally come clean!
You hid your secrets for a long, long time and now they can be seen,
You tried to pull the wool over our eyes
But now we've finally seen through your lies,
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It cannot be denied
That when you rejected my advances
It hurt my pride.
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