Never Try, Never Fail

I'm captivated with your kindness,

And your innate desire to do good,

Where I am so much your opposite,

Looking out for myself only—

Not evil, but not far off.

Some days I feel you would give your heart

If I just asked, a lung—or both—if I so desired.

You are the acme of my wasted efforts,

The face of my deepest sorrow.

I can see sadness has touched your lips,

The lips I see even when I sleep—

And I wish I was exaggerating

But I often wake forgetting you're not here

Just because I wouldn't let you speak.

As your words, with touches of grief,

Carry to my ears I watched your smile

Disappear from you darling face—

Turning away beneath his arm.

We live a world where you must always leave,

And my ego keeps me blind

Forevermore.

DannYetman

www.yetmanpoetry.blogspot.com

Flawed Minds

Anything can feel important

If we infuse it with meaning,

Even an item as simple as a napkin

Can provoke enough emotion

To render us speechless—

For we are the ones who define it.

It isn’t the napkin itself

But the importance weighed within it.

Because that is human nature,

To personify every item around us

So when we are left sitting alone

We can evade the loneliness

That’s bound to come.

We can lie to anyone in this world

But ourselves.

There is one person we can’t hide from—

One person who knows our secrets.

Left alone in hate, envy and lust—

Forever soiling our minds.

     DannYetman

www.yetmanpoetry.blogspot.com