The Land of Grimney - The Illustrated Adventures of Cora Pearl, aged 12

I have seen you many times, Wall.
Monolithic, dark, and many stories tall.
Made solid as granite by my fears
Of debt, doubt, disaster and tears
But I know your secret after all these years

I used to hide, to fantasize
Dreams of dread that sleep denies
But though those fears had me so chained
Still I faced what was ordained
And dared confront what had me pained

That's when I found your secret, wall
For you are not an obstacle
At my approach you shrink and fade
At my touch you are unmade
And no longer am I so afraid

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Love all, forgive all, show mercy, condemn no-one.
May the King's peace be upon your body, mind, soul and spirit.
May love and joy be ever with you.

http://www.waycyber.com

Excellent poem Wayland, so very very true indeed. So many of us are walled in by our own fears. Love it!

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Nydas
http://www.walkerbroad.co.uk
http://www.thesanitycompany.co.uk/

This poem may sit well in here as it is of a similar vein.


Cannot Will Not


Sitting in my cave, peeping from the door,
watching out for any passing threat.
The vestiges of life, quivering behind
the cave walls, safely festering yet.
Others approach, offer company and solace,
they cannot put their foot inside the door
unless they pass the tests, and few of them do,
Far fewer since the days I spent with you.
The fear that keeps me company, sitting at my side,
makes sure that I am solitary within.
Regardless of the qualities, whatever they may bring
I will not risk letting that person in.
No one can know my history, some know a little part
but the whole must stay wrapped up inside my mind.
Others can’t be trusted to safely manage all
the aspects of the daily mental grind.
You offer me friendship.
You offer me love,
but only one can I afford to take.
I can not love you back, there’s too much now I lack
but friendships I will never ever break.
And so I sit inside my cave, craving what I fear
Knowing I’ll not take the risk of letting love in here.
Acceptance would be helpful, to appreciate my lot.
To see the wondrous things I have, not mourn what I have not.
I cannot have what I will not have
down that path self-destruction
So unless one day my fear subsides
I keep myself in traction.

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Nydas
http://www.walkerbroad.co.uk
http://www.thesanitycompany.co.uk/

Thank you for your kind words, and your poem.

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Love all, forgive all, show mercy, condemn no-one.
May the King's peace be upon your body, mind, soul and spirit.
May love and joy be ever with you.

http://www.waycyber.com

Really good! Loved the above line and the use of 'stories'.

eve naive x

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...

Down with the wall, Master Cybersmith.

Up with your poem.

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"Never look down on a man unless you're helping him up." Jessie Jackson