fairytale

 

"fairytale"

   

I’m sure I have one,

Must have writ of it two or three times now.

Search through the pages,

It has to be here somehow.

Just click you heels three times,

And all of the tears go away.

The tornado did no damage,

And no one needs to pay.

  

I suppose we all will fall,

Assuming a fairytale.

As into an empty sunrise,

We all set sail.

    

Dg

Danny Gunter

01-31-2012

It Will Never Dry

 

“It Will Never Dry”

   

I want you to remember,

The precious moments,

Without any of the,

Resentments.

   

Walk tall in the sun,

Slip past the shadows of before.

Like what you did,

Don’t matter anymore.

  

But I was there,

Held you safe in my arms.

Would have thrown down my life,

To keep you safe from harm.

   

But harm and hurt,

That is all you held when you held me.

So don’t believe you hide under any shadow,

Where I don’t see.

   

You got me,

Then strung me up, left me to bleed and die,

Blood like that I’m sorry,

It will never dry.

   

Dg

Danny Gunter

01-26-2012

Cry Again

   

"Cry Again"

   

There are a great, great many,

Who’d think me meek.

Unable to stand even move,

After such a task that left me weak.

  

Ever a tiding of ill news,

I am neither, weak or meek.

There is only a sort of truth,

That I seek.

   

Not a form of absolution,

Just simply some recognition.

I mean I tossed my soul on the line,

For the simplest bit of recognition.

   

Yet I'm the foolish one,

Left out freezing to death in the cold,

When all I really sought was another heart,

To hold.

  

There are a great, great many,

Who’d think me meek.

Unable to stand even move,

After such a task that left me weak.

So many imagine me broken.

    

How surprised they’d be.

Shattered beyond belief.

Then only,

To shed tears with me in my relief.

   

The best stories,

Are always born to re-begin.

And these are eyes that will never,

Cry again.

  

Dg

Danny Gunter

01-25-2012

A Silent Death

 

"A Silent Death"

~ ~ ~

I have led an average life

Never wanted much

Maybe once

Someone's touch

~

I have not held a child

While it was sick or dying

I have felt remorse

Spent many nights crying

~

There are many who could point

Point at me and say

You have never had loss

Not in that way

~

That so many experience loss

Lively-hood or limbs

For me it all comes back

To then

~

Something must have killed it

Like a zombie walking away

I remember a silent death

As he had nothing to say

.

Dg
Danny Gunter

02/07/2007

Just Stone Now

"Just Stone Now"

So subtle

So pervasive

Slowly eternal

So invasive

Settling within

The soul of me

Too evasive

To be seen

It spreads, it shelters

Me in the stone

Cold and unfeeling

I am alone

As I move

Stone falls away

But there is no flesh left

Anyway

Only the stone

Only the cold

Just stone now

Growing old

Rough and cracked

No beating heart

But certainly nothing

That can be torn apart

Dg
Danny Gunter

06/19/2006

Unknowing

“Unknowing”

    

You took away,

My chance to forgive.

As I fell into you,

And you let me live.

   

Let me live in lies,

Inside unfathomable untruths.

Betraying everything,

I was taught in youth.

   

Still I wrapped you in my arms,

Surrendered my soul and heart.

All unknowing of how,

You’d rip my soul apart.

I suppose I should tip my hat to you.

You broke what couldn’t be broken.

I suppose you deserve some respect,

That at least must be true.

   

Dg

Danny Gunter

01-18-2012

Quill

"Quill"

  

I pull the quill,

From the ink well,

For I do know,

That’s where memories dwell.

Press the tip against my chest,

Let my heart drip upon the page.

Be you twenty or fifty,

Sixty or seventy more,

Do you enjoy reading of before.

The past is writ in books,

Pages for the world to see.

High school and college give credit,

Learning the history.

But I’ve no pages,

Press the quill against my chest and I will bleed.

Just blood on the pages to blur the words.

While at the end there’s only greed.

I fell pray,

And so shall you.

After all forgive and forget.

That’s just what we do.

Dg

Danny Gunter

01-18-2012

pic from:  http://main-aur-mera-mann.blogspot.com/2010/09/history-of-quill-pen.html