WitheringSurface

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WitheringSurface
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On a typical day, I am a script writer. Poetry is, however, my true panacea.

  January 2022     10 months ago

Submitted Poems 6 total

The Return

A boy sits by the winter fire,
Waiting for his dad's return,
He's fighting far across the wire,
Lives are lost and fires burn.

No smile to be seen on his lips today,
Sadness and memories haunt his sleep,
Since the idol left that day,
Pain...

– by Juan van Niekerk

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Frayed Edges

Pain in heart
You turn away,
Yet I'm begged just to stay,

In your heart you must weep,
For the cuts are so deep,

You bleed on...

Believing in no cure,
When your heart is so pure,
But your mind has won,

Come what may,
And let go...

– by Juan van Niekerk

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Dusk Awaits

These are the nights when dusk awaits,
To touch me deep, to feel you here,
Where shadows grow and content waits,
These are the nights of my heart.

Those nights I wait and whisper still,
Under your sheeting rain,
Where the mirrors direct
...

– by Juan van Niekerk

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Where You Are

In my dreams, your eyes are always closed,
Nothing seems to tear them away
From wherever you are,
In your blanket of mistrust,
Seems you're always so far away,
Hiding in the dark.

When I wake, I feel you're always there,
Everything screams...

– by Juan van Niekerk

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No Windows

Lock this ruined mind,
Behind this windowless sill of mine,
Let no words tell of this non-creation,
This now complete abomination.
Inside,
I’ll be.

Where nothing stabs to wet my face,
Pallor with listlessness and ache,
If only reattachment...

– by Juan van Niekerk

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added 2 years ago
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