Through My Eyes

By Eric Lucero

A collective account of trials and tribulations in my life. The sum of events I have seen and have been through. The time a span of several years of going through a rough time, to lose all that I had and the kind of people I encountered along this journey.  Much of what I wrote are true feelings from what I had endured, which was not an easy road to be on; let alone find a way off this road.  Most of the poetry is from a time in a dark place, but I never lost hope. I lived in darkness for a while but found my new beginning. The poetry is to let those who read it know, I know what it’s like to hit the rock bottom but that there is always hope. The poetry I wrote is a reminder that what I went through, I am not the only one.  There are some positive words in here as well to hopefully enlighten those who have felt what I do.  As one of my poems states, “I Survived”, is to let anyone know if I can overcome so can you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781662456091

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Through My Eyes

Eric Lucero

Copyright © 2023 Eric Lucero

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2023

ISBN 978-1-6624-5608-4 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-6624-5609-1 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Think before You Speak

Another Empty Day

Tormented Souls

I've Been Forgot

If My Mother's Not in Heaven

You Are Nothing to Me

The Darkness Inside of Me

I Hate Myself

The Past Is Dead and Gone

Death of a Friend

What I've Seen with My Own Eyes

Lost in the Night

Close to Death

I Don't Know the Way

A Life Full of Pain

Never Wrong, Always Right

We're from Two Different Worlds

I'm Coming Home

I've Had Time to Think

I'm on Nobody's Side

A Hidden Agenda

Nowhere to Go

People Don't Change

I'll Never See You Again

The Tides Have Turned

Life's Too Short

Taken for Granted

Hold On to What You Believe

Time Never Runs Out

Fate

A Destiny with Death

Our Last Kiss

Grown Men That Don't Know How to Act

The End of My Journey

Born without a Soul

You're Not Better Than Me

South of Heaven

Ready to Explode

The Thoughts in My Head

Live for the Moment

Today Has Come And Gone

I Hear You, But I Ain't Listening

The New People I Meet Every Day

I Continue to Meet Every Walk of Life

The Darkness of My Life

I Don't Know Anymore

I Can't Seem to Escape This Hell

Time Doesn't Heal Wounds Nor Does It Forget

The Way Home Is Too Hard to Find

I'll Never Forgive You for What You Did to Me

The Day You Were Buried

The Road Home Has Become an Impossible One

My State of Mind

Surrounded by Fools

Isolation

There Will Be No Tomorrow

I've Met Every Walk of Life

I Don't Have the Answers

Everybody Wants Something

Every Day for Me Is a Challenge

How I Survive

I'll Never Forgive You Because I'll Never Forget

Can You See the Hell in My Eyes

Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged

Put Yourself in My Shoes

Keep Your Enemies Close

Guitar Hero

The Crossroads

What Could Have Been

Time Heals Wounds

You Can't Break Me

Follow Your Dreams

My Angel from Heaven

Only Real Men Cry

People Like You Make Me Sick

Only Heaven Knows

I've Survived

About the Author

Think before You Speak

The words you say quickly go south

All the bad that comes out of your mouth

Your mind is on the loose

What comes from you is what you choose

There are only rapid thoughts

You do not at all think

What all you do say stinks

You should think before you speak

Your own words wreak

Stop for a moment so you'll know

What you utter is even fast for you and never slow

Everything that you say

Full of anger and hate

I can hear it in all the words that you state

When you speak your words yell

It's not just me but all who can tell

You believe what you say sells

And like how it punctures like nails

You do not care who you hurt

You speak to everyone as though they are dirt

Your own mind does not warn you, as you get no alert

Nasty words you live to spit out

This is what you are all about

This is who you are

And, just like you, your words are scarred

Another Empty Day

There's not a thing I can seem to look forward to

Nowhere to go and nothing to do

When I stare at the clock

Time seems to have stopped

Where I look, there is no