Tag: hope
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We Brought the Gold
When we left our homes for England, We expected streets adorned with gold, Because that is what they promised, Because that is the dream they sold, So we dressed up in our Sunday best, Straight backs and heads held high, And we arrived with big aspirations, Based on little White lies, Because the streets were…
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No More Winter
There will be no more winter, We’ll live forever in the spring, There will be no more winter, And the birds will always sing, The icy swathes of death, Will never lay across this land, We’ll never see the fall of Summer’s beauty at its hand, The sun will live forever, There’ll be bleakness nevermore,…
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15 Years Later
If you asked me 15 years ago If I thought that time could heal that wound I would have looked at you – A rawness in my eyes, My light nearly all consumed – And I would have told you with intense certainty that it would never fade away A hurt that great is itself…
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The Soldier in a Bobble Hat
A handsome man in a Peruvian hat, In the farthest corner from me is sat, His uniform hugs his chiselled figure, His emerald eyes are growing bigger, As he spies me watching like I’m not, As I coyly fiddle with my strawberry top, A sultry smile with curious intention, Is flashed so suavely in my direction, I…
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Foreverie
Once upon the daylight blue, A longing was drawn in vivid hues, And sat lucid in her reverie, For times that she and he once knew. Painted on her memory’s eye, Thoughts flittered like a butterfly, They tickled at the brink of truth, And swaddled her mind in a dulcet lie. He no longer walks…
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The Flyers
The green, The black, The white, The stripes, The thrill of the fight, The delight of the graft, Two halves, And a whole lot of heart, And the laughs, (And the cries), And the cheers, (And the sighs), The battle calls from the sides, The banks burst as passion flies through the field, We never…
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Voices
The voices of my weakened soul Empower forces deep And threaten to drive the threads of life Into dark and endless sleep The voices of my shadowed mind Have drowned out good intent But still an echoed conscience thrives And beckons to repent A redeemer lives in the bitter blood That pulses through my veins…
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Love Is…
There sits a child with tears in his eyes, A bolt through strongest heart with the sound of weakest cries. Love is a hug, That that child gives to you, Just to make you smile, Although he himself is blue. There breaks a dawn, The brilliance of light cascading from the heavens to take away…
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Phoenix
I lay a broken woman, Sobbing from within, I cursed my very existence, Laden with untold sins. I lost all hope, all passion, I lost my chance for truest love, I felt the world had turned its back and all I thrived on turned to dust. So in my wretchedness and squalor, At the lowest…
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The Dreams
I always dare to dream the dreams But little shards disturb my sleep When reality rips right through the seams And all that’s left are the sighs that creep From lips that tremble with the tears Of wasted hopes and realised fears A stifled cry, frustrated screams My heart is sinking in defeat I always…
Serena Malcolm 