Array ( [sid] => 181961 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => The Samaritan Who Closed His Eyes [time] => 2015-10-16 18:28:08 [hometext] => Feeling guilty about not trying hard enough to keep in touch with someone. I found out that they are in a bad place right now and I can't contact them [bodytext] => Second hand news stirs the focus from lazy memories of yesterday
Reality bites, clamps bared teeth on the exposed soul
Somewhere in the dark your anguished looks see nothing but loneliness
Emptiness congeals in your veins as despair chains your spirit in an iron cage

The doors are locked from the inside, sealed with your troubles
Yet it was I who mislaid the key, consumed by trivial and mundane
Until swallowed up by self, absorbed by everything that was nothing
The Samaritan who closed his eyes, reborn as passer by

I have a map but no compass to lead me in the right direction
Scattered clues taunt hope, forging on but still chasing dust
A hand too distant to be offered, a soldier on the wrong battlefield
As each new day drags darker clouds across your shredded mind

I will cling to a thought, a prayer that we will not end in echoes
If my thoughts could cleanse, I would will them to your side
Blow away the shadows that shut out the light and summon the pain
And bring you back into sunshine, where you have always belonged. [comments] => 6 [counter] => 387 [topic] => 48 [informant] => puppy_dog_eyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry ) Your Poetry Dot Com - The Samaritan Who Closed His Eyes


The Samaritan Who Closed His Eyes
Date: Friday, 16th October 2015 @ 06:28:08 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: puppy_dog_eyes
Second hand news stirs the focus from lazy memories of yesterday
Reality bites, clamps bared teeth on the exposed soul
Somewhere in the dark your anguished looks see nothing but loneliness
Emptiness congeals in your veins as despair chains your spirit in an iron cage

The doors are locked from the inside, sealed with your troubles
Yet it was I who mislaid the key, consumed by trivial and mundane
Until swallowed up by self, absorbed by everything that was nothing
The Samaritan who closed his eyes, reborn as passer by

I have a map but no compass to lead me in the right direction
Scattered clues taunt hope, forging on but still chasing dust
A hand too distant to be offered, a soldier on the wrong battlefield
As each new day drags darker clouds across your shredded mind

I will cling to a thought, a prayer that we will not end in echoes
If my thoughts could cleanse, I would will them to your side
Blow away the shadows that shut out the light and summon the pain
And bring you back into sunshine, where you have always belonged.

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