"As I Exist Within Each Breath..." - and Lifehouse punctuates... Poem

I would suggest you open each link as it occurs and listen as you hear...

I would suggest you open each link as it occurs BUT in a separate window, and listen as you hear... but that is only my thought - whispering by... as I listened - I heard and whispered.  I don't steal their thoughts... just found mine...

"As I Exist Within Each Breath..."  - and Lifehouse punctuates... 

whispering by...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCq1bkeDAGA&NR=1

Its always tomorrow
and today
and every yesterday...
in each and every tear
we shed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6cdPeYJh0s&feature=related

I remember every - every -
time,
each HURT,
each look -
each face that turned away
- and the ones that didn't.

...and the eyes -
its always the eyes that mark the damned,
that punctuate their NEED...
their need
to take and beat
and twist and slash.

The eyes that only FEEL -
as the blood leaks

through
and drips - out
of each and every pore
of you.

There never is or was innocents -
just more and more sin borne
and guilty by association
by breath
by accepting
- and by not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX83X4vtZCs&feature=related (from original poem - no longer available on YouTube) - now -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuC3NeqNK-o

...and how they smiled -
each time I was turned away...
and I lived -
lived the lies -
mine, yours... and watched
and breathed
and walked on.

I walked the darkness
- inch-by-mile - golden miles...
tasted beauty
breathed fire and ice
made - dreams...
by the landfill-full.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=argO1-s9GFA&feature=related

I was found
and lost,
settled and trapped
and free and freed
and ever more broken
- than mere shattered.

I forgave friends
forgave life
forgave existence
but
couldn't forgive me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6cdPeYJh0s&feature=related

Its always tomorrow
and today
and every yesterday...
still.

Chris

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As an aside:  To all that pause - I recognized (and agree) about You Tube... being a distraction (from the very beginning)... BUT the intent was "Lifehouse" and the thoughts their work brought into being behind my eyes.  A valid view of a mind working sometimes has to include the distractions that mind faces WHILE its being aware of flowing thoughts - yes?

If somebody gives the barest damn - 5 years from now about what I said, then what will they make-up to explain where my thoughts came from and just why I wrote them down?

Walking in another's shoes when you HAVE a clue is hard enough... let alone when you don't.

Chris

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2/22/2019 - updated Lifehouse link to a working version.

Author's Note

feel free

Reviews

[Muse]

You amaze me....I'm without words really.

I forgave friends
forgave life
forgave existence
but
couldn't forgive me...

I feel like you were talking to me when I read this. Maybe that's why I'm without words...your poetry is just so DAMN personal. It shakes me to the core. It makes you all the more human and lovely to me. 100/100

Muse

[Jay Levon]

amazingly well done.

[emmajoy]

Too much to feel, too much to hear .. your words marry the thoughts.

'There never is or was innocents - just more and more sin borne ~ and guilty by association ~ by breath ~ by accepting - and by not.' Why does that remind me of a chorus in one of the great Greek tragedies? Is this recrimination of self? Surely time for forgiveness, of gathering harvest.

As to the music, it's all around, isn't it - not just deep-heart Lifehouse.. inspiration borrowed or begged, stolen or reciprocated, Pauses take you back to where you should be ..

[Michael G.]

Like you said to me once...

No review needed_____ And the comment is "brilliant."
The aside is even brilliant.

[.....]

A lot of emotions play out here and they were felt. Thought provoking and I too have been inspired by Lifehouse in moments of my poetry. So I can relate and understand how this music inspired your thoughts. I did listen to them as I read and I could feel/read the influence their music and words had.

Blessings, Tammy

[Chris]

Ed,

thats ok... Google does THAT for free even if you DON'T ask

[Ed Hart]

i had my youtube tied