Dan Katoha Jr Poems

I. The Heartless Character

He walks into the scene, soundless, lightless,
A hollow gaze, a hand clenched around silent prayers.
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I. She still lives in my dreams…

I close my eyes, and there she is.
Her smile is a crack where my thoughts drown,
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Forgiving Doesn't Kill the Pain

If I forgive her…
Will it be enough to kill the emptiness?
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They said the devil could never love.
That he was born of fire and cursed to ash,
That he knew only how to destroy, how to roar,
That his breath scorched hope itself,
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Letter from an Orphan to His Father

Dad…
I wish you had lived a little longer.
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So, Mom…
Tell me—
Is this what life really is?
To live, to suffer, to fall, to cry?
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