Dispirit

Everyone says you are quite amazing
Now that you clean as a king,  
I stare back at them with undisguised
Obnoxiousness
The intensity of fear grips my likeliness
Of remaining here forever,
Oblivion and the state of rest
Running together, forward providence
The peacefulness of...

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Can you not hear my soul?

How difficult to explain
the emotion of losing what should be yours,
the torment and the flood of feelings
that flow so freely through your body,
the anger and the desire
the rage and the passion
thick as mire
dark as night,
The moon shining down
and the stars so bright.
Where are...

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Deep, dark blue sea

I drowned in the deep, dark blue sea;
Where the sharks swim in a frenzied motion
And the currents hammer my lifeless body;
As the life ebbs out of my soul and
My blood turns cold,
My heart cracks like a broken glass.

Up above the frisky waves bounce gently under
The burning sun,
...

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Would that you, would that I

That you had come along

Thirty years later

Or that my timing

Was better.

 

That I was your Chapter Three

Love affair

Not your quiet epilogue.

 

That I had seen

The things you saw

And shared more of you

Than I share now.

 

That I could somehow

Be there

And not these years

Behind.

 

I will never...

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Said the Rabbit to the Hedgehog....

It is only those who find themselves in love in the world

Who will suffer an anguish of mortality--

 which is not what we wanted.  

 

My heart uselessly opens to 3 words,

and I was not enough for them,

for you.  

 

You don't speak them again and

          there's a knot in...

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