Bernard Snyder Poems

The love songs I used to sing for you
now just seem like shattered words,
the white doves that followed us along the beaches
now seem like ordinary birds,
...

I love you because you're the other half
that makes me whole,
when we're apart
I feel helpless and out of control,
...

She tried to warn me
right from the start,
she said she had a friend
that had stolen her heart,
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I've always known she was taken
but something about her made me keep trying,
I used to flatter her with sweet pleasantries
knowing she would read between the lines,
...

Sometimes we sort through the shattered pieces
with hopes of finding something still intact,
despite the excruciating pain we went through,
we always find ourselves looking back,
...

They get started by certain people
that run their mouths without the facts,
they take a story they've overheard
and begin to add to it or subtract,
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I've sailed around the world twice
...

They're gone but never forgotten
abandoned out at sea,
some severely beaten by past storms
others stuck in misery,
...

Something must've happened over time
no one seem to ever ask for me,
maybe I've lost my significance
or the world's going through a catastrophe,
...

I just want to say 'thank you', Lord
and know that I truly understand,
how lost I would've been
if you weren't holding my hand,
...