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I Made it to Forty-Five!

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by ~Gregg Rowe~

I’ve sat here and I have cried a river --
The pain I carry -- it does not subside:
It’s almost midnight -- coldness does quiver --
Please load my pain away on Pisces’s tide.

It’s ironic, the pain is in my heart --
I hug and love -- but never get a break;
Some days I wish that I could just depart --
But ev’ry day, I do always awake.

I take my fruit loops, scream those flowing tears --
What is my future holding there for me?
For forty-five years, I have faced my fears --
I know my mortality is a lease.

And then my angels’ messages arrive --
Your poetry penned here keeps you alive!




Gregg has now left the building!

 

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Written March 12th, 2005

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  • LittleAnn
    December 4, 2006

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    What a different birthday poem, thank you for sharing this in my contest! This was very well written and I hope you still had a happy birthday (one and a half years ago )
    Keep up the great work and lots of luck to you!
    *+~Annie~+*

  • chekeeapt5
    January 7, 2006
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    delicate

    nicely done i think that sharing times like these are what helps us through them and then it is the friends here that make things even better when they tell you how much they care in their own words. congratulations man.


  • PerfectImperfection
    December 19, 2005
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    Thank you for sharing this with me! I only hope to be half as understanding of the universe as it spins when my years reach their time of acceptance! Best wishes!


  • goodbye account
    March 15, 2005
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    Hey Gregg. I've been a fan of yours for some time; both for your poetry and what you've gone through and life. I can't possibly imagine making it through what you have... And to me, that makes you a hero. I'm sorry that my birthday wish to you is coming late, but I hope you had a splendid day. Thank you for the many inspirational and tear-jerking pieces that you've put out for us to be blessed by reading.

    Hope you have a very, very enjoyable late birthday! <3
    -Dom


  • CarterTachikawa
    March 13, 2005
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    A very happy (late) birthday to you and the contest host both. I trust and pray you have wonderful days now and ahead of you. Fantastic sonnet, by the way.

    ~CT


  • catz Moderators member
    March 12, 2005
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    I want to wish you a humble Happy Birthday, Gregg. I also wish there was something magic I could say or do to take away your pain. You've given so much of your life, your kindness, your compassion...yourself to all of us, here and elsewhere in your life. I know there are many aids victims who, without your tenderness, understanding, compassion and loving concern, would have been left alone and lonely in their time of greatest need.
    You've nade a place in our hearts here at allpoetry, we care about you, we love you.
    Love and Big
    Dee


  • thelordreigns gold member
    March 12, 2005
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    A very happy birthday to you.
    Like our friend Bilbo Baggins, I wish you "(apparently) perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth."
    -joanne


  • lordoftherings gold member
    March 12, 2005
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    Tumbleweed: The reference to fruit loop pills is my termology for the pills I take morning and night that are suppose to be saving my life and keeping me alive, yet at the same time, the side effects make me sicker some days than on others. I prefer to call them my fruit loop pills rather than triple cocktail since I am a recovering alcholic! Gregg
    Edited on Mar 12, 8:54 because ''.


  • misselaineous
    March 12, 2005
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    happy birthday gregg



    elainex


  • SerenityNChains gold member
    March 12, 2005
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    No need to be humbled friend. Rejoice!!! As we rejooice that you are here for yet another year to offer friendship and fantastic poetry. Happy Birthday Gregg. You are loved.

    Blessed be

    ~~Serenity~~
    Billie Jean

  • pozo
    March 12, 2005
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    Aww happy birthday! This is a great poem which I liked a lot, this was wonderfully written and amazing Keep writing, this was amazing
    All the best,
    Pozo


  • Queen of Cups
    March 12, 2005
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    Happy Birthday and you are a baby since life begins at the naughty forties. Nice write too


  • Lapis Lazuli
    March 12, 2005
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    This is a great poem. It is very nice yet sad at the same time. I hope you have a wonderful birthday!


  • March 12, 2005
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    A very happy birthday to you and this is a wonderful sonnet. Have a great time

  • Tumbleweed
    March 12, 2005
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    This is a nice poem, sad but nice (don't quite get the fruit loops reference, though). I hope you have a happy birthday.
    Here's to another (hopefully) 45 years of writing


  • hugh wyles silver member
    March 12, 2005
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    Dear Gregg,
    This is just a note to let you know I read your above message as I did the longer one on my Author's Page.
    I am praying for you to have a release from all that pain, enough for you to enjoy your birthday.
    Tomorrow I will try to get my Muse going and enter this contest for you, my buddy.
    Meanwhile, here's an applaud to go on with.
    Love and regards, Hugh


  • Quill
    March 12, 2005
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    45 thats a lot of candles on the cake ! happy birthday to you !
    great write with age hopefully comes wisdom , this is proven in your writing ,i hope to emulate your success craig !


  • March 12, 2005
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    Nice job. I think this is interesting. I should write myself a birthday poem.....


  • suseann
    March 12, 2005
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    Gregg 45 is not even in the middle yet. And this is a well versed work. You would do Pisces proud. Suseann
    Edited on Mar 12, 2:08 p.m. because 'spelling correction done'.


  • angelica silver member
    March 12, 2005
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    You made it Gregg, Happy Birthday 's and 's

    Applause
    Edited on Mar 12, 2:02 because ''.

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