Pain

See you

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Call it a protection of a possible disaster. Yeah, that’s what we’ll call it. Averting some bad future, bad history, all at once. Because I need the smoke to fill the room, before I can realize where I am, and maybe where I should be. It only looks like home. It’s hard to recall what … Read more

Should Say

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Should you remind me that we are all the same, that true wants are always pulled out? The walking bridges need to fall down below the water and rocks they hover above. The truth is you’re not willing to give up anything. And though you hate the robe, you love to swing your gavel down … Read more

The Prior

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I tie the bow back on the gift you were to me. I can’t open it. I hand it back to you as I stand up and turn away. My head held high. I sprint through the front door and into my car to drive as far as I possibly can. The sun is shining, normally annoying, … Read more

Mirrors Justified

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Superficial. You don’t deserve the attention. A former constant struggle should never have met my struggling lips. You once craved it. Now you have plenty, but you’ll never get full of glancing eyes and lustful winks. You’re nothing but aware. You don’t deserve the attention. My honesty taken advantage of something bigger than you, I … Read more

Ninja

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Like a book that’s been drowned, I rip the pages to pieces as I pull them apart. I’m just trying to read the words, but damage has closed the message. Some ink drips out on the table, from beneath the small cracks that are left, but it’s unrecognizable. A bayonet sits right above your lips … Read more

Broadus

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I am no doctor. No magic pill here. I know I came to fix you, but I don’t know how to heal. So, I’m on way to walk these plains until I fall asleep under the trees that help shade the mountains, where I can drink from the river. Until I awake once more, and … Read more

Paper Mate

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Sometimes I look both ways at green lights, as if I expect for the cars to come flying through the intersection. Or I feel bad for emptying the world that I took down myself, with two hands, but with good intentions. But no one could ever touch me. I up here alone looking down on you, wishing … Read more

To a new location

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It hangs by a needle on the blackboard. The image captured so well in four frames. Look at the smile I used to get by. Our lips, bang bang. A year later I couldn’t have told you that I wouldn’t be able to return to this place with you.

In your corner

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There was this door that hid behind the vines that hugged the brick wall at the back of the yard. It kept the words locked like a safe. You’re hiding from me. You are far away.

January 10, 2017

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As I look down upon the valley floor, I can’t help but ask why you got the short end of the stick. I could see before you, But I didn’t experience before you. I wish I could trade spots baby because you deserve more than was ever given to you. That bed has my name written … Read more