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Early Poems I

These are my early poems, which I began writing around age eleven to thirteen, although I didn't make a conscious decision to become a poet until around age fourteen. 

Shadows
by Michael R. Burch

Alone again as evening falls,
I join gaunt shadows and we crawl
up and down my room's dark walls.

Up and down and up and down,
against starlight—strange, mirthless clowns—
we merge, emerge, submerge . . . then drown.

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"I didn't know"

God, I am thankful for Jesus Christ, and I am now reborn by his light! But I didn’t know my spirit laid perishing in the night. I am thankful you provide me with physical food, but I didn’t know my spirit starved for spiritual food. I am thankful for eyes which see your glorious creations, but I didn’t know my soul was attacked by unseen situations. I am thankful you gave me a brain to think, but I didn’t know my soul was ill with ignorance. I am thankful you gave me hands and feet, but I didn’t know it was leading my soul to defeat. I am thankful you gave me a fine heart, but I didn’t kn
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