Street Life

by Ronald Edwards   Dec 13, 2010


Hugging curbs he wandered,
lingering in his past life,
once upon a time when he did prosper,
when unity and resolve
was his stand in double.

A time when he was strong as a mountain
not fragile or smothered in pain.
His pale existence now did yield
to the winter of his discontent.
He did dream oh how he would put
his spin on the world.

Now it merely was a crushed
opaque faded scene
no longer played out in reality.
Those thoughts he had to abate
because he just couldnt imagine a world
any better than it was.

Golden years when prosperity
would entwine with respect and meaning
now were quashed from his mind,
they did splinter and break apart.
No Carpenters nails could mend them.

He could not kindle
those smoldering feelings anymore.
Despair held him in its clutches like
tendrils from the curb, holding him down
keeping him in the gutter.

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  • 15 years ago

    by TJ Arizona Eagle

    So much runs through my mind as I ran this, I actually got a bit chocked up.
    What I was once I am no more. It's painful in it's reality.
    Just as this poem is painful in it's wording. You know life and it's pit falls and are able to bring them forth for others to learn. Excellent

  • 15 years ago

    by TJ Arizona Eagle

    So much runs through my mind as I ran this, I actually got a bit chocked up.
    What I was once I am no more. It's painful in it's reality.
    Just as this poem is painful in it's wording. You know life and it's pit falls and are able to bring them forth for others to learn. Excellent

  • 15 years ago

    by Cindy

    Ron
    This piece brought tears to my eyes....As we get older it is so easy to try to live with the past. When things were happy and life was so much easier.

    A time when he was strong as a mountain
    not fragile or smothered in pain.
    His pale existence now did yield
    to the winter of his discontent.
    He did dream oh how he would put
    his spin on the world.

    ^^^^
    This stanza really hit me in the heart
    Excellent job!
    Take care
    Cindy

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