Resilience to hostilities resume,

Ignorance of my abilities to consume,

Memories of the past now faded,

Insecurities thrive in bloom,

Intricacies of a life now jaded,

Society seems a fictional ideology,

Peeking through fissures of gloom

I wish i didn't have to see,

How happy you could be,

Without me,

The moment i realize,

My memory has completely faded from your eyes,

It's so hard to see,

How happy you can be,

Without me.

I've never seen your smile so grand,

As he took your hands,

2 became one as you danced,

I knew i never had a chance,

Why did i have to see,

You're so complete without me,

So in love without me,

Why did i have to see,

That the problem was me,

When everything about you,

Echoes inside me

When i think i'm walking,

But i'm waiting for the ground to hit my feet,

When i think im trying,

But i haven't left my seat,

When i think i'm becoming more,

But there is less than before,

When i think i found the answers,

I have only written pages of questions by the score,

When i think i want to be a father,

But in the mirror a child is all i see,

When i think i'm the winner,

But the arena has never been more empty,

When i think i'm finally better,

I'm drowning in tears that have become the sea,

When i think im no longer alone,

But it's only me i see

frantically aging,

subtle and proud,

antics with age,

no longer allowed,

days of wanton disregard,

so far away and so few,

seeing the world with childs eyes,

no longer a point of view,

rolling down hills with the sunshine on my face,

the world has become a quieter place,

the horizon used to seem,

so endless and far away,

we could never reach the end of our dreams,

even if we ran for days

If i could go back,

To apologize to he who will be me,

To deliver the news,

I failed in the dreams you see,

To watch his tears,

When i say i couldn't follow through,

To quell his disbelief,

That i failed at being you

THE JOURNEY

im scratching and clawing

on a path that might not end

weary from the journey,

trying to ascend,

trials behind and before me,

what doesnt break will surely bend,

faking that im worthy,

failing to pretend,

dreams are getting smaller

harder to defend,

road is getting longer,

sores on my feet just wont mend,

the harder i try,

the more it hurts when i fall,

theres no need to cry,

since it seems to offend,

given all i got,

though i say i have more,

this pain hurts a lot,

impossible to ignore

we liked our metal heavy,

we chose to rage against the world.

we chose to uncover,

mysteries we unfurled,

we chose each other,

to quell the coming storms,

impossible to discover,

we were too proud to conform

T.F. BURKE POETRY

your importance is self inflicted,

are we supposed to follow suit?

im tired of being weighted by your convictions,

you think that youre astute,

you didnt mean that much to me,

today you mean even less,

never learned to love myself,

to this i must confess

unreasonable silence

i’m scared of this life,

of what i’ve yet to face,

i cultivated strife,

my world’s a lonely place,

the silence is all consuming,

it defines who i am,

i can’t hear the flowers blooming,

i can’t hear myself become a man,

silence is heard,

silence is seen,

silence is felt,

it seems obscene,

silence is old

silence is young,

silence hurts,

Am I the only one?

silence is a lock,

silence is a key,

silence is my rock,

but it wont let me be me