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“Your Life.”
Your life is a river, and you are a damYou’re in your dinghy, paddling madly upstreamYou’ve gone over the waterfall, and you’re hanging onto a vine for dear lifeIn the fluidity of existence, you have gummed up your works. Your life is a one way street and everyone is honking at youThe crosswalk is lit…
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“The Porch Light.”
Waves crash overheadLightning pulses in the skyWay up high and down belowAn electric burial, pummeled without end. There is no disconnect, only discontentA mother’s instinct isn’t to put her baby up for adoptionThey cry out for one another, no matter the distanceThe porch light stays on forever.
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“You.”
I’m the lucky oneYou gave me the real youThe one nobody else seesThe one no one else understands. All the true and deepest parts of youThe places you hide from everyone elseYou let me interact with the you down insideAnd what a gift it was to know you.
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“Hide and Go Seek.”
We play make believe as childrenHide and go seek was a thrill and a choiceHiding doesn’t make anything go awayAs a grown adult you have got to stop pretending. You’ve been hiding for far too longShoving feelings deep down insideRepressing all of your sadness while you dieToday is the day that you finally face the…
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“Haunted.”
I am miseryDisposable and without worthStripped of all hopeUnable to smileCaught in a trapHauntedExpelled from anything warmDying and alone.
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It’s What a Daddy Does.
This morning I got myself up an hour early in order to accommodate the baking needs of my daughters for their class potluck lunch. There’s really not a lot to be said nor were there a lot of ingredients used but isn’t this what a daddy does? To go the extra five miles and help…
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“Embers of Our Love.”
Distance makes our hearts grow fonderSilence only makes our love grow louderThe triumph of our devotion is made strongerWe cannot muffle the deafening cry of our love any longer. Your “setting free” backfiredThere is only deeper commitmentThe embers of our love burn brightLook into my eyes again and tell me that you love me.
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“I Needed You.”
I needed you today. Something really bad happenedAnd I needed my best friend. ‘Cause we talk about everythingIt’s simply what we always do. I needed you today. I am a wreck. But you weren’t there.
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“Falling Fast.”
DescendingInto an epiphany of nothingnessDisposable wasteI am pierced from withinThe guts of my ancestors begging me backRotting heart, diced so niceFilleted and on display for noneFalling fast, where nobody can hear me screaming.
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“You Can and You Will.”
Dissolve the toxins from your lifeRemove that aging, insufferable cystPurge the cancer that eats at your marrowDrive a stake hard into the vampire that sucks away at your soul. Flush out the poison that has backed up your systemGnaw off your foot in the trap that has bound youBehead the snake that is coiled around…
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“The Entity of Us.”
When you instigated that kiss, it meant the world to meLike melting ice cream on the hottest summer dayYour mouth embraces mine and opens the gates of heavenThere is divinity most high in our passion. I lack nothing when your lips are against mineEvery sweetness you have ever uttered to me is felt in our…
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“Paradox of Heartbreak.”
No matter your level of dysfunctional thinkingI know you are in prime honesty with meAnd literally nobody elseYou keep your cards close, tight fistedMisguided but pureYou’re a paradox of heartbreakIf only you’d focus on what’s truly rightCut the fat and embrace what lifts you high.