PAT DORAN - POEMS

​Pat Doran is from Wexford, Ireland. The land of Saints and Scholars of which he is neither.
 His first book of poetry was published in December 2018, entitled The 50 Year Old Poet, it contains over 150 of his poems. He is already busy on his second collection.

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New World
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​What if I do not wake up
in the morning?
What if it came to call without
any warning?
What would be left
in my wake?
Would people arrive to see
what they could take?
Would they be shocked to see
I was gone?
Or would they say they saw
it all along?
Would I be missed and hard
to replace?
Or is there someone waiting
to take my place?
What if I do not wake up
in the morning?
Do not weep for me, for a
new world is calling.

The Phone
​

​Sitting alone
looking at your phone.
No messages or calls.
Just updates to install.
Scrolling through your gallery
you question your mentality.
Why have you shut yourself away?
Depressed by what others might say.
 
Put it back in the drawer
maybe check again tomorrow.
 
 

A New Day Creeps
​

​Eyes open
but still not seeing.
Mind is full
from last nights dreaming.
Try your
best not to yawn.
Reality
has yet to dawn.
Tired from
adventures in your sleep.
You look
out the window
as a new day creeps.
Time to
get up and
face the morning,
before it hits
without warning.
 
 

Ian Curtis
​

​Ian Curtis,
What went wrong?
Now you are remembered
for a song.
You said that love
would never tear you apart.
Then you made
depression an art.
You were the one
who never had control.
Always destined
to play the role.
Wired for sound
and ready for transmission.
You were the genius
that created Joy Division.
Aged twenty-three,
epileptic and hectic,
you sought a way out
you thought poetic.
 
 

Burst Ballon
​

​A burst ballon
is beyond repair.
Sometimes I wonder
does my body compare.
When all the air
is released
the energy seems
to cease.
Lethargic and lost
I have become.
Just to end up
feeling numb.
Hard to focus
on all I have.
Instead only occupied
with the bad.
No answers
are forthcoming.
Until the do,
my mind keeps running.