the rest of them are there
while i keep myself inside
where the only refuge is hiding
and hiding is a friend of fear
and fear is living deep within
without You is incomplete
in all imperfections, i stray
out of the crowd, out of You
bye bye bye, goodnight lullaby
darkness fills my eyes
how can i be blind?
i merely miss the light
let me run where the wild horses are free
let me dance where the flowers are real
let me walk with You on the road of perpetuity
it’s not beautiful where the colors are tampered
where the world is black and white and blur
without You while i stand alone in my world
has an ugly setback from this choice
there are no more excuses
undo me, tame me, take me
let us stand together in our world
2012
chester maynes 
thanks for visiting my blog..this one is awesome..
you’re welcome anytime, thanks for dropping by likewise! keep on writing great works of ARTS 🙂
you too 🙂
i love this one!
Thank You very much, indeed 🙂
Thank you for following my blog.
you’re welcome, and likewise for following my blog! 🙂
Some of your words describe events or thoughts I have had. Good words. And thanks for stopping by the check my blog.
thanks! I hope to read more of your work of arts, too! 🙂 keep on writing beautifully! 🙂
what a beautiful expression, loved it. 🙂
thanks! 🙂
Your poetry is intense and heartfelt! I appreciate your visiting my blog today. I hope to return to yours in the future as well.
thanks for visiting my blog, too! I appreciate your comments, likewise! 🙂
Thank you for liking my poetry and following. I really do appreciate that and the fact that you are a very good writer. Best wishes, Michael
thanks and best wishes too! I look forward reading more of your works! 🙂
this one’s great: Darkness fills my eyes
How can I be blind?
I merely miss the Light
-felt the sadness in this piece.. great one 😉 by the way, thanks for following, expect me to follow you around 😉
You’re welcome 🙂 Thanks for liking this 🙂
Thank you for dropping by my blog, loving your poetry work, keep it up. Clarabelle
Welcome and Thanks too Clarabelle!
“and hiding is a friend of fear”
immobilizing regressive needs: awakened sleepers are touching your face
de’ living psychic organism chester maynes
raise a ladder take a step
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This was SO inspiring!!!
thanks that I have inspired you through this poem 🙂
Awesome post! Awesome blog! I just followed.
Hi Cynthia! Thanks for liking this and for following my blog! 🙂
Charge. I’m going to Jrusaelem with good tiddings
Thank you for following my blog. 🙂
you’re welcome! 🙂
Your words are beautifully written. I really like this. Namaste.
thanks for liking this one and for the kind comment! 🙂
taking flight on the fiftenth to Geneva to see some bakners and then off to Jerusalem.These are the days of Elijah.
Quite the journey in and out of love. Chin up, plenty more hearts out there to love.
thanks for dropping by and for your comment here 🙂
Yes peace and prospeirity is found under my wings. Wherever I go they follow me. Hang on.
this is awesome
thank you! 🙂
Thanks for following my blog. You gave me smiles!
you’re welcome! hope to read more poems from you! 🙂
Pandoras box is about to open. Free energy and clean too. A river of life to resurect a dead sea.
Simple, awesome, and the realism is very entertain, thanks for sharing.
thanks for dropping by and liking my poem…thanks for the kind comment, likewise! 🙂
You are most welcome.
I like the line,
Where the only refuge is Hiding
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Oh, the memories… ;’)
thanks Francois for visiting my blog and for liking my poem! I really appreciate it! 🙂
Thank you brother for sharing your insides with the world, and for visiting my blog, it was almost a forgotten project that I have just decided to revisit, will post some more recent poems soon, am glad you enjoyed ‘Stepping Stones’ thanks for reading. Will have a good read of your poetry and get back to you with my opinion………
You’re welcome Anu, and thanks for visiting my blog and liking my poem too! 🙂
I like this very much….
feels very real…
and thank you for visiting my toughts..I appreciate it …
Take Care…
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thanks for dropping by and visiting my blog. I really appreciate it! Hope to read more of yours too! 🙂
Hi Chester,
I’m glad you liked Loss. Thank you! I can tell by your poem above that you must also find it cathartic to let the thoughts out, rather than keep them bottled up. Keep going!
-S
Hi Susan,
You’re welcome! Thanks for liking this one too! I agree with what you said and your poetry can also draw emotions and some people can relate to it! Keep writing beautiful lines! 🙂
Thank you, you too!!
Like all of your stuff and your site is neat and easy to read!
Barry.
thanks Barry for liking my poetry and my blog site! 🙂
Thanks for following my poetry blog. I’m mainly a songwriter, and many of your poems would make good songs. This is my favorite. Very fine.
Your poetry is amazing and truly inspirational.
thanks for being amazed and inspired to my poem! 🙂
If you have a simple thought you have to realise that it offends those that complicate things. Blessed are they who do not get offended. Not like the beggar who was offended by me offering every thing I had in my pocket.
Loved this poem Chester. I am sure I will enjoy exploring the rest of your blog.
Helen
thanks Helen for loving this poem! 🙂
great! i loved it.
thanks Barry! 🙂
Thanks for following my blog. I am really enjoying reading your poems. They’re very emotional and inspiring. Looking forward to the next one.
I am delighted! Thanks for having the time to read my poetry 🙂
Out of the closet I came
going to Jerusalem
was a suicide mission
I am alive so
I am still a sencient
being a shameles shaman
I must be lifted
so that I may draw all men
into my presence
remember my visit
Who can ever forget it
how can I forget
………Where the world is black and white and blur. Brilliant. Gorgeous poem.
Hey Chester,thanks for checking out my poetry.i took the opportunity to peruse yours as well,very nice work,enjoyed thoroughly -Bri
As a romance has not yet spoken to its real hostess while wandering in the course of life… Come to her again and again and a sunbeam will sparkle in your eyes some day. let me hope so .
Your a really good writer 🙂
may you be together always!
Well said!
let me walk withyou to perpetuity… so image filling….
thanks for dropping by and for commenting here 🙂
Beautifully done….great poem!
thanks John. really appreciate for liking this one and for leaving a comment here 🙂
Excellent, Chester, I do so enjoy reading your poetry. This so resonates. xox
thanks for the comment and for enjoying my poem 🙂
Reblogged this on mygr8reads and commented:
I found this poem I like and thought you might like to see it too!
What a powerful poem, I really enjoyed it.
I felt taken back to an old memory of mine which resonated with what you have written.
Thanks,
Seth
Thank you Seth for leaving me such a sincere comment and for taking the time to read my poem! 🙂
i am with you….
Your blog is great! Thanks for following mine!
thanks for finding my blog great! 🙂 I’ll say you have a great blog too! 🙂
Chester, I’m a fiction writer, not a poet, but I must say you have ones of the best voices of modern poetry I have seen in a long time. Awesome!
wow! I’m flattered to hear that! thanks so much for the compliment! i’m so encouraged and inspired! 🙂
Chester, great poem and very inspirational! Thanks for following me as well.
you’re welcome Tessa and thank you too! 🙂
I felt the emotions through each line and verse. The genuine and sincerity was strongly appeared. I like your poetry. Keep it up. Your talented!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for your likes on my post as well, my fellow poet.
Thanks so much and for liking my poem! 🙂
No problem!
Now I’m just jealous! Why can’t I write this good?… *Sigh*
oh don’t be jealous, i know u can write too! 🙂
Thank you, Chester, for your like and follow of the Lore. All the best.
jk
you’re welcome John, thanks too for dropping by here 🙂
Very beautiful poem Chester, A real delight to read!
thank you very much Wendell for liking this one! 🙂
Many thanks for liking my recent post and following my blog. I much enjoyed visiting your site as well. Fantastic writing. Very moving!
You’re welcome and many thanks too! 🙂
Love your poem….and thanks for liked my post “permulaan”i’m just a beginner….not like you,i think you are the master………^_^
you’re welcome, and thanks for dropping by and liking my poems too! 🙂
Me likes….
thanks for liking this
Let me run where the wild horses are free
Let me dance where the flowers are real
These were my favourite lines
thanks for appreciating those lines from my poem 🙂
Chester, you come from a very real and original place, AND you have skillz! Some of the best poetry around today. Keep the poems coming (and by the way, I’m glad you like my blog. I like posting awesome poems, even if they aren’t my own).
many thanks for your nice comment. i am encouraged to continue creating new, fresh and good poems! you made me smile today! 🙂
i like it man!
thanks Aidan for liking this and for dropping by here! 🙂
It’s a beautiful piece, Chester! I love it!
Hi there. Thanks for dropping by and loving this poem! 🙂
Chester, that’s good deep stuff. I can feel the isolation and it takes me back to some of my own issues I’ve dealt with. If you get a chance, check out one of Robert Frost’s rarer poems, called The Subverted Flower. It’s awesome, although it’s about rejection as well. That’s the one that first struck a chord with me when I was younger about what I was going through, although it’s about a relationship desired, not a relationship broken.
thanks for suggesting…i really need to read more poetry from great writers…I’ll check on Frost’s later…good thing you have mentioned that! 🙂
Thanks for finding my blog. I’ll be happy to follow yours.
You’re welcome and thanks too! 🙂
Thank you very much for visitng my blog. After going through your poems, I construe, you have a perspective just different from others. I would like to hear and read more from you. Keep it up.
you’re welcome and thank you also! Good luck in your writing too! 🙂
I love this poem. I can very much relate to certain aspects.
thanks for liking this so much! 🙂 i hope i inspired you with this poem! 🙂
Really deep lines bro! Nice one
thanks for dropping by here and for liking this poem! 🙂
Great stuff!
thanks Paulina. I hope you find this inspiring! 🙂
Great Poetry. Thanks for sharing and also for looking at my blog
Hi there! You’re welcome and thanks too! 🙂
(Applauding) 🙂
thanks so much! 🙂
That’s a deeply meaningful poem. I enjoyed it. I like many lines but my favorite is where you say that hiding is a friend of fear — so true. Thanks for visiting my blog and reading The Midnight Train. Good luck with your writing. I hope to see more.
thanks for particularly liking this poem and I’m glad i’ve visited your blog and I look forward to more of your writing! 🙂 I also wish you more success in the field of writing! 🙂
Normally I am horrified and disgusted at what passes for poetry today, and even more so by the people who think they can write it. Not so with you. I feel touched when I come across the honest expression of an intense inner-state. It is immediately recognisable to me, and I feel the connection.
I am delighted to hear your thoughts about getting connected with my poem. Thank you very much for letting me know how you appreciate it! You made me smile too! 🙂
You are a really good poet! I love this one!
thanks so much for appreciating this
Hello, I saw you stopped by my skdd site and wanted to learn a bit about you. I love poets when they bare their souls. Well done. 🙂
Hi Theresa! Thanks for visiting my site too! 🙂
The essence of the poem is captured well in its title.
thanks for really liking this one! 🙂
Thanks a lot for visitng my blog again. The poem depicts clearly the internal feeling of a person for the pertner. Such a yearning is a natural one when one takes love as a necessity in life. Anyhow, thanks again.
you’re welcome and thanks to you too for visiting my blog and for liking this one! 🙂
This is just outstanding. And thanks for the likes.
Oh, thanks so much! 🙂
Thanks you very much for visiting my blog and liking the poem entitled, ‘Ied-ul-Fitr’. All your writing has been outstanding indeed, as you are clear in your vision.
You’re welcome and Thank You too for appreciating my poetry! Your kind comment means so much to me! 🙂
man, this is wickedly genius!