Poemetry by T.A. Barnhart


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2020-9-20

i hate mirrors:
they remind me
that i exist.
2020-9-17

my tragedy
compared to
other tragedies(
yours is
not less nor....
2020-9-16

there’s a tenderness
i miss
more than i can say
for i have never
felt....
2020-9-11

if only
there were a reason
for all the sadness,
pain and suffering,
a reason that made....
2020-9-9

people claim
the world is complicated
and the problems we face
are hard.
that’s a lie....
2020-9-7

how easily i break:
a word,
a thought,
another failure added
to a long lifetime of failures....
2020-9-3

who i am
is not
who i want
to be.
the problem is....
2020-9-2

by the millions
they come and go,
these humans
who try so desperately
to prove they are....
2020-9-1

the emptiness of this world
is where it waits,
the silence that allows me
to get up and walk
away from the noise....
2020-8-29

being human
and being happy
are clearly
two different things.
we could be happy....
2020-8-28

humans aren’t satisfied
with “propagating the species”
as a reason for existence,
so we make up stories
about god and higher purpose....
2020-8-26

the bullies,
when i was young,
were girls & boys
who needed
to let me know....
2020-8-25

i don’t expect
to wake each morning
(any morning)
with a happy smile
on my face....
2020-8-24

i think,
therefore,
i am.
how fair
is that?
2020-8-22

if i were to admit regret
about the choices i made
years ago in my youth;
if i were to wish
i had had the courage....
2020-8-21

i am happy to live
in a world without god.
don’t get me wrong.
i would like to live forever,
and i sure as hell....
2020-8-19

it would be awesome
to blame it all
on you.
in fact,
i think it would be....
2020-8-18

with each passing day
i’m grateful for
each passing day
that i am still here.
one day will pass....
2020-8-17

tens of millions of dancing sperm
surround the Egg of the Month,
each demanding to be the future.
EotM tolerates the rabble for a time,
and then: You. You’ll do....
2020-8-15

hope is not my friend.
i understand very well
the ways and nature
of that ugly fucker, fear.
that bastard lets me know....
2020-8-14

that’s the way that
the world goes round,
sang Prine, and he was
mostly right.
but sometimes....