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Another Years Pass

By D. R. DiFrancesco

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Another page in a life has turned

To look back on what might have been

For hopes and dreams we fought and yearned

Have passed us by sight unseen.

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Resolutions born to steer our path

Put forth with the best and greatest intention

Champagne and music and social laugh

In hopes of better days we’ve mentioned.

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To morph our heart and soul required

Without we waste our solemn vows

A change of course to which we’ve aspired

Time grows shorter when failures allow.

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Renew the mind and the body will follow

Our spirit thrives when visions align

Life will fill and no longer be hollow

When sadness and regrets fade and resign

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Look toward the new year as an offer to grow

In spite of what you’ve let dissuade you

Strength and determination must be what you show

To face those that would trample imagination held true

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Trust your heart and your dreams will flower

No new years pass or resolution will save them

Endowed at birth with the universal power

To design your future while burying failures condemned.

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This strength you’ve had all this life that you’ve lived

Wound and ingrained into your very soul

Have courage to pursue all your passions not passive

For these are the things that make living life whole.

Beneath the Shell

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By D. R. DiFrancesco

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We look upon this world as an oyster

Rough, hard and jagged to the touch

Awash with the dirt and grit of life’s tribulations

It lies burrowed in the muck to hide from conflict

Still we claw and rake in the filth for the treasure it holds

Drawing it out from the safety of it’s dingy home

It’s shell is not easily unlocked

Clamped down tightly to protect itself from pain

Reluctantly the shell is pried open

Gradually and over time we are revealed

In a flood our surroundings rush in

Exposing virgin skin to the unfamiliar

Joy and excitement replace reluctance

What wonder is found in discovering your dreams

For beneath the newly uncovered flesh

Lies the pearl you have been longing for

Dismissing Destiny

By D. R. DiFrancesco

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To face the truth

One must face what they fear most

What’s uncomfortable builds character

Strengthens every fiber of their being

You cannot grow physically or spiritually alone

Cradled in your convenient cocoon

To break out and take wing you must fall

Close your eyes

Step over the edge into the unknown

Destiny beckons you forward

Choosing to live life in a net of safety disappoints

Conceiving regret as it’s progeny

This is not living, it is merely existing

We are meant to do and become what we dream

No boundaries can contain you

Was not every great achievement born of an impossible vision

Laughed upon by those with no imagination

Dare to persevere

Do not let those of a narrow mind stifle you

Your greatness lies on the road just ahead

In this you can be assured

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The Insomniac

By D. R. DiFrancesco

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I lie,

Head cradled in a pillow of down,

Soft and warm still I can not sleep.

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Thoughts race through my wild mind,

Exhausting me as I seek out slumber,

Knowing that it eludes me again.

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This inescapable race,

Taunts me, dangling a carrot in front of my unwilling mind,

Exploiting the weakness in me.

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To what end,

As dawn breaks ending another night of torment,

I am mentally weary as I slip from between the silken sheets.

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Awake in the physical only,

I lumber through the day a mere shell of who I am,

Begging for respite from myself.

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Seeking sanctuary in melatonin and sleeping pills,

Face down in a self-induced coma,

I struggle to release my mind from this torture.

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Relief is only temporary,

A solitary night of dreamless repose,

Refreshing just shy of expiration.

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Insomnia, my uninvited friend,

My companion through hours of darkness,

Like a relative come to visit and never leaves.

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Eviction seems so distant,

As opportunity for lethargy escapes,

Overwhelming me with inexorable nights of tumult.

To Dream – Haiku

By D. R. DiFrancesco

I drift amongst clouds
A dreamer from my birth
Always seeking truth

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The hourglass turned
Sand falls slowly in rhythm
Imagine times pass

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What lies in the mind
Mysterious and joyful
A wonder of life

If Dreams Were Reality

In dreams,

I am the hero,

I am the villian,

I am a great lover to millions.

In dreams,

I am a martyr,

I am a savior,

I am the fool with bad behavior.

In dreams,

I am a jester,

I am a riot,

I am a airplane test pilot,

In dreams,

You are my love,

You are the one I adore,

You are the one I would gladly die for.

In dreams,

Our life is perfect,

We live in bliss,

We want for nothing, so there is nothing we miss.

In dreams,

I can be all of these things,

The lover, the hero, the fool, the zero,

And still…

In dreams,

I never disappoint you.

Resplendence or Regret

By D. R. DiFrancesco

 

Do you like what you see,

Molded after what you dreamed I’b be,

Sheltered behind walls of stone.

 

My wings clipped,

Meant to keep me safe,

Instead, caging my will to fly.

 

I knocked on fates door,

Only to have it slammed angrily in my face,

Resigned to a destiny of civilized certainty.

 

Is this the path I would have chosen?

Maybe, but that was for me to adjudge,

I never had the chance to find out.

 

Adolescence enslaved me,

Chaining my desires, preventing them from soaring,

Pushing me in directions that you found acceptable.

 

Age held no respite,

Desire for approval ingrained into my being,

Second guessing decisions through your minds eye.

 

Passage to maturity should not proceed this way,

Life’s lessons are meant to form us,

To be our guide through our metamorphosis to adulthood.

 

Despite being bound to the past,

Handcuffed to the vision of what I was supposed to be.

I have broken free of the iron shackles of my youth.

 

With no time for regrets I have freed me,

Unlocking my hopes from the dungeon of childhood,

Escaping the hangman that would have stifled my future.

 

Look back I would not change a thing,

Realizing that your protectiveness although misguided, decided who I became,

Leaving it up to me to alter the path on which I strode.

 

In strength I have become myself,

Confronting my shortcomings with an iron fist,

Finding the goodness in what I have become.

 

Harboring no compunction,

You did what you did out of love for my well-being,

Although flawed doing what you thought was best.

 

For this I thank you.

Disturbed?

White noise

Distorting my senses

Images like flashbacks fill my mind

Thoughts, past, present and future

Blur the lines between fantasy and reality

Sanity or insanity

Who is to say which is which

Its difficult to tell anymore

Dreams materialize in painful rushes of sound and color

Awake…No rest, can’t sleep

Unfolding into vivid nightmares

They seem so real

Glimpses of my innermost fears

Each breath becomes more labored

Struggling to claw back to consciousness

I can feel the blood pulsing through my veins

Rapid, it battles to sustain me

The pounding in my head clouds my vision

Strong burnt coffee the medicine

Nerves steady…Fog recedes

Jarred back to life  by the caffine

Another day of subsistence

Endeavoring to crawl out of the darkness

Alone and lonely.

A Common Life

A COMMON LIFE

By: D. DiFrancesco

Dreams of greatness pass
Like the flickering flame of a candle doth die.
Youth brings thoughts that cannot last
Through every hope reality replies.

Ambitions push for fame and glory
These too are dashed in fires eternal.
Ministering to the flock the age old story
Left for lifes pleasures carnal.

To serve with honor next desired
On oceans of blue and green not to be.
Parental opposition they both conspired
To steer this ship into calmer seas.

So many attempts have I endevored
To make my way on paths I’ve chosen.
To no avail the byways severed
A common subsistence I’m now beholden.

Regrets at one time there were so many
Now reconciled I am at peace.
Born to this world a life of frenzy
The joys of experience cry out for release.

Tears no more will my eyes engender
My path to destiny fulfilled.
To the little things I prize surrender
A troubled conscience now stilled.

I worry no more of roads less traveled
As a life lived well is a life worth living.
Those that I love smooth what I have raveled
Content to pass on with all I’ve been given.

So worry not for me when the time doth come
The fruits I’ve inherited, greater than my share.
Resolute I’ve gifted far more than some
Prepared to leave this world with nary a care.