College Poetry-The Mid 80s of My Life

It's 2:30 AM says our wall clock and I'm still up. It must be the multicolor capsules I've taken as a cure for this developing flu. So what else to do other than surf the Net? I thought of digging into my college stuff where I found an old pocketbook style notebook. It was where I write and compose poems and jot down ideas that popped out of my restless mind when I was a college editor in late 80s. I came across poems composed by my college buddies Bong, Mandy and Johnathan and myself. Here's one by me which I like to share with everyone:

No Reason To Despair

When darkness falls
Light I shall lit
So eyes shall see
Heart shall beat
and thoughts remain
Focused on triumph
that seem hopeless
Upon forces' stroke
On courage's flame
That should not cease
When forces strong
Raze the flame
For when night falls
In crowning touch
Morning comes

Composed on the night of December 30, 198_

Still digging into my college stuff...Here is another poem:

Eternity

Here we are
In days of rage
Only time can tell
If all be well.
Hush thy words
and ask nothing
For here we live
In endless time.

Still more from my wonderful college notebook. This time, a poem composed for me by a close college friend on the spot while we were hanging out in the college library in the mid-80s:

PLAIN

You can change my world
From the one full of cobwebs
To something worthwhile to live in.
You can change my life
From the one full of anxiety
To something worth living for.
You can fill every emptiness
I feel inside.
You can put all the smiles
Back to my lips once again
You can do all those things...
And I hope you will.

I will change your world
From the one full of cobwebs
To something worthwhile to live in.
I will change your life
From the one full of anxiety
To something worth living for.
I will fill every emptiness
You fill inside.
I will put all those smiles
Back to your lips once again
I will do all those things...
And I hope I can.

by L.M.C.