You're so often misunderstood 
They don't listen, nor do they care 
It makes you sad, it makes you mad 
It makes you wanna pull your hair
        
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        Laying here alone and lonely 
My eyes are closed but I'm not sleeping 
A cold wind blows through lace curtains 
Out in the moonlight heartache's creeping
        
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        The France I remember
Is the France I saw through your eyes
I kissed your lips of red
Under the cloudless, blue French sky
        
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        I glance at the calendar 
With anticipatory glee 
I notice that its Tuesday, 
The day you said you'd be with me
        
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        I search for one to play my game, 
To fall in Creepy Crawly's net 
It cannot be just anyone, 
She'll be unique, the one I get
        
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        Dear Mom, I don't know if you'll get this 
But I'm sending it anyway 
It's been so long since I've seen your face 
And there's a lot I have to say
        
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        I'm done sitting here waiting on you 
I'm done expecting you to come through 
I'm done with crying myself to sleep
        
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        Staring in the mirror at the stranger that is me, I wonder to myself when exactly did I forget what it was to be a woman? I close my eyes and try to remember the feeling of my child suckling at my breast, but it eludes me…I have forgotten the pain of childbirth.
        
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        There's not enough darkness in all the world 
To extinguish the light of your candle 
A thousand others couldn't take your place 
Nor could a thousand feet fill your sandal
        
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        Darkness took over me long ago 
When I first scratched the surface of love 
Tumultuous waves of emotion 
I could hardly hold my head above
        
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        You act so casual 
While you break my heart, 
Tearing me apart 
Then leaving me here to fend for myself
        
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        You call it the brutal truth 
All these hatreds that you spew 
You try to force on others 
The faults that you find in you
        
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        His name was Dennis Rader 
He was a dog catcher by trade 
But that was just a cover 
For the more evil game he played
        
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        Floating on the tears of a woman 
Men approach the shores of life 
Sons born with the sins of their father 
And forgiven by his wife
        
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        Summertime sun shines on my face 
Soft winds hold me in their embrace 
Honeysuckle scents, morning dew 
Fields of cornflower, bright and blue
        
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        I denied his existence from my first missed period to my last labor pain, as if pretending that the baby kicking inside my belly was merely indigestion would actually make it so. However, it soon became very apparent that I was heavy with child and it wasn't long after that he made his way, kicking and screaming, into the world.
        
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        I go through each day the same old way 
And it's all black and white to me 
The same old faces, the same old places 
And nothing different do I see
        
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        Will you lay with me in my field of dreams? 
Will you use your love to quiet my screams? 
Will you dry my tears with your kisses sweet? 
Will you lay your sword gently at my feet?
        
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        Pt.1
Still suffering the pains of my youth 
A forgotten child, left alone 
Torn much too young from my mothers breast 
And left lying naked and prone
        
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        With her picture in his pocket, 
A young soldier goes to war. 
Though he doesn't want to leave her, 
Or know what he's fighting for.
        
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I was born a stain on my mother’s heart, a constant and unwanted reminder of a man she despised, ironically, at the end of ‘the summer of love”, and, in stark contrast to my ensuing life, under the sign of Libra, which is ruled by Venus, the Roman goddess of love, on September 29th 1967. I have lived an unimaginable life full of horror, abuse and atrocity, but it also held a lot of love and positive experience. It has taken me a lifetime to realize that the demons that haunt me are of my own making, and to take responsibility for my share of the disappointments I have had. I am at a place in my life where I may not yet be comfortable in my skin, but I'm learning to like it, and I'm growing emotionally, spiritually and mentally every day. You will find a lot of my work raw and intense, written with an 'in your face' attitude, not because that's a front I put up, but because that is ME. I'm honest and forthright and so is my poetry. But I have a big heart too, and I dole out my affection generously. I don't promise you'll like what you read, and that's ok...everyone to his own taste, but I do promise you that I have given every piece my 100% best effort, and I thank you for taking the time to read. Ever your fan, The Poet Darkling)
                    Misunderstood
                    
                    You're so often misunderstood 
They don't listen, nor do they care 
It makes you sad, it makes you mad 
It makes you wanna pull your hair 
Why don't they try to understand 
Why don't they listen, can't they hear? 
You always try to shine your light 
Why can't they see you standing there? 
You're so often misunderstood 
You try to tell them how you feel 
But they always turn a deaf ear 
They don't care to help you heal 
So you need to understand yourself 
And only on yourself depend 
‘cuz other people come and go 
But you're with yourself till the end
                
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