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My eyes are weary,
Won't you let me sleep?
These bags don't lie
I've been up all night
and it's no secret

My head keeps falling back
My neck barely supporting it
I'm about to topple flat
And everybody's applauding it

This no sleep thing can't continue
I've ran into three doors today
And pushed one that said pull
I'm about to fall out
 Oct 2014 Tony Scallo
Vanessa
Eyes are empty these days,
Smiles more often forced.
Wondering if I'm only see what I want.
Is his smile genuine?
Maybe he is happy.
Maybe I refuse to believe it.
I found myself looking for love
In the desperate time of my life
I thought I have everything
But there is something I need to have.

Affair after every affair
Chances after second chances,
From hearts in all innocence,
I never thought I was unfair.

Many lives have been involved
Countless plans retold
Many moments have been misspent
I thought, "around me, the world should revolve."

I found myself, in desperation,
hunting, demanding for love
I ended up in despair,
But there is a resolution.

My eyes were fully opened
The long journey of search,
The devastating, hearts-wrecking pursuit,
has finally come to an end.

I found genuine LOVE,
—LOVE that never remembered my past
—LOVE that patiently waited by my side
—LOVE the world has never got to offer
—LOVE I merely do not deserve
—LOVE so high, so deep, so wide
—LOVE that fully satisfies
—LOVE that never thought about self
—LOVE so unconditional

LOVE died, LOVE entombed, LOVE rose
Where would I be right now
if I have kept scouring the world for "love"
Where would I be right now
if love had not found me
Where would I be right now?
 Oct 2014 Tony Scallo
ryn
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 Oct 2014 Tony Scallo
ryn
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I hug the first,
Enamoured by her beauty.
Such kind eyes...
Peering carelessly back at me.

She reaches out,
To meet my embrace.
"You'll always be the first,
Who had my heart set in place."


I say to the second,
"You are my life.
One day you'd build,
The right castle for a wife."


"Remember me always,
For you this path I have paved.
I'd shower upon you,
All the love that I have saved."


Then finally to the third,
The last of all gifts.
Most adorable of sprites,
Source of my infinite lifts.

*"For you I haven't done much,
Only all that I could afford.
But insert me in your forever...
As the only you ever would've adored..."
For my troopers...
 Oct 2014 Tony Scallo
20something
I refuse to be an option to you;
a number on a list, one of many to choose.
Am I just a page in your book?
Because you take up chapters in mine
Maybe I've been blinded by how much I want this to work;
maybe I can no longer see the signs
The devil on my shoulder reminds me every single day,
that you're just like him and I need to stay away
Yet on the other side,
something says you could be worth the pain;
that you were an angel once upon a time,
and behind the horns you still have wings
I want to believe your words,
but your actions say so much more.
And the next time this equation doesn't add up
the only answer will be me finally closing this door.
Love is a flower open to the sun,
Hate is a cavern, a hole, craven,
Black, empty, a dank drowning,
Under light.  Love is one season,

Hate is transitory. Love is eternal,
Of vast nebulas, to outer reaches
In galaxy are nurseries with stars
Being born, light, alive with light.

Love is the lasting of conquerors,
The first line, defense, existence,
Love takes all in one communion,
Breaking the dark as the morning
Sun.  Love is conundrum, love IS.

Hate is a construct, the blotched
That bleeds where life is seeding,
Rot better to cut, spoil unneeded,
Hate will come to nothing, for life
Is love, love is all and everything.
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