Daniel J DeVille

Daniel J DeVille Oct 2022

The mirror weeps
The same old tears
That fell upon me
All of those years

My arms they've held
The lives now lost
I've lived their life
But at what cost

I'm not the poet
That I once was
I'm not the man
Of days now past

If loneliness is nothing more
Than a lonely robin hiding
From the cold inside a pine tree
In the middle of a frozen northeastern
Central park,
Then I'm the bark wood collected beneath
It's claws.

Daniel J DeVille Aug 2022

Strangers

I saw her today
She seems better without me
Her eyes glow once more

Daniel J DeVille Aug 2022

Last Embers of a Self Proclaimed Poet

The fire that once burned bright
Has been rained down upon by life
Words like coal and scattered ashen letters
Ripped out pages with no meaning
Letters that were never sent
And never read by its muses
Half empty bottles of liquid bravery
And cigarette boxes now empty
There lies upon the fire the meaning
Of the many things
I never understood
A myriad of kisses I never gave you
An infinite amount of seconds
I never held you
An eternity of silence where I could have
Should have told you
How much I've loved you
Burning so intensely
Are the multitude of souls of the ******
Cowards who just like me
Never once spoke of their true intentions
A concoction of nothingness
Combusted into the brightest flame
I ever did see
If I ever saw
Those last embers slowly dying
Underneath all the things I never told you
What saddens me most is not that it is over
But that these may be the last words
I ever tell you
I'm burning
For you

Daniel J DeVille Jul 2022

The 2020 Hiatus

In the corner of my study,
Behind the kitchen stove,
Underneath the bed,
Inside an empty bottle of whiskey,
Just on top of the refrigerator,
And in the forgotten thoughts
That like blood passed through my brain
And lingered my heart,
Lie the rotten thoughts of poems
I never wrote...

Daniel J DeVille Jul 2022

What she deserves

She deserves the world,
And I can't even give her honesty.

Daniel J DeVille Jul 2022

Tomorrow when the sun rises

Tomorrow when the sun rises
I will not
The birds will stand at your window
And sing their morning melodies
But I will no longer hear them

Tomorrow when the sun rises
I will not
The sun will come and wake you with a kiss
And warm my now cold bedside pillow
But you will no longer feel me

Tomorrow when the sun rises
I will not
The seven o'clock alarm will go off loudly
And the news will start blabbering about
But there will be nothing new from me

Tomorrow when the sun rises
I will not
The smell of coffee will engulf the house
And the scent will wake your eyes
But I will no longer thirst

Tomorrow when the sun rises
I will not
But do not miss me nor cry for me
For I will be gone in body but not in spirit
And in heaven's gates I'll wait for you

For the morning that the sun rises,
Without you

Daniel J DeVille Jul 2022

Why

Why do I love you tell me why?
My heart beats to the rhythm of your steps
As they walk away from me each day
Why must you share a bed with my regrets

Why do I love you tell me why?
Why do I buy you flowers you throw away
Why am I so self destructive so you say
Why must I always beg for you to stay

Why do I love you tell me why?
Why does the sun rise over the bay
I don't want to breathe without you babe
My life has no meaning when you go astray

Why do I love you tell me why?
Why do we do the things we do?
I have nothing to give but my love
If I tell you I love you, will you?