Love Poem: Damaged In Love
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Written by: Ian Petch

Damaged In Love

This broken mind designed by pain
The pieces together can never remain
My ring is sometimes all I see
Keeping me close to the place I need

A promise handed down through dreams
Awakens at night, at least it seems
But once again the world has spun
The dangerous webs with its deadly sun

What promise rises in this light?
The people of hate with their false insights
Such dreams I never want to be
The silence of hearts burning all that’s me

Somewhere designing darker truths
My weaker self slept throughout his youth
With depths I never dared to seek
The darkness since rose, now it mustn’t speak

Such damaged feelings I ignore
The depth of my reason still asks for more
One last excuse to break this ring
And end my last reason to breathe life in

This struggle never letting go
Smiling with her while buried in snow
Such empty things I seem to bleed
Away from my heart, for the one I need