Month: June 2020

I Can’t Unsee It Now

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I looked out into the world

And I saw it

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We are all main characters in our own books 

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I couldn’t unsee what I had seen 

All of us walking around with pages and chapters 

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With bookmarks to save the important parts 

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With spines and bindings 

Pristine 

Or stained with living 

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I can’t unsee it now 

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The way our lives play out 

Like the chapters in a book 

Like stories to be told 

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With love and heartbreak 

With turmoil 

And body aches 

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I saw the words written on everyones face

“He had a rough past, and now he’s struggling to reach his future” 

“Her heart has just been broken, but she fought on for her daughter”

“He said goodbye to his dad not knowing it would be the last time he hugged him” 

“ She just found her soulmate, but she really didn’t know it” 

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I can’t unsee it now 

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The way we are all main characters in our own books 

Trilogies 

From childhood 

To Throughout our lives 

To our THE END. 

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It’s become an obsession 

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Because I just want to read them all 

Every word 

Every chapter 

To feel the bookmarked 

To soak in every reason why 

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I want to flip through your lurid pages

Because you are a book I want to read 

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And I can’t unsee it now

Adieu

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She told him

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“I want nothing 

I am ninety-one

Please let me go” 

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He looked at her solemnly 

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“Don’t make me do this, 

No” 

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She took his hand and said 

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“I lost the greatest love of my life ten years ago

And I have loved every day that I have been alive, 

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But I miss him so much, 

I’m ready to be back by his side” 

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With tears falling from his face 

He held on because it’s all he knew how to do 

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And  she left this earth so peacefully 

With a node and a whisper 

“Sweet dreams,  baby

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-adieu” 

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Late Night Thoughts Of An Anxious Person

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Sometimes I feel so stifled 

Frozen 

And unseen 

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I lay awake at night 

Pondering … 

What does it all mean? 

You Will Be Just As Happy As Me

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I spoke to her in awe 

In her seasoned age she had no flaws 

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With her lipstick placed 

Her nails bright red 

And her night cap made of lace 

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She regaled  on her love of dance 

her family 

and her lows 

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She sang of all the ways

She loved to  see her grandkids grow 

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I asked her for advice 

Some tips and tricks 

To be just as alive 

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She tells me

“Release all the negative people 

That surround you in your life 

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Even at ninety-nine 

Life is too short for negativity 

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Cut them out and I promise 

You will be just as happy as me”

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Emergency Room War Zone

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As I walk through the threshold 

I am assaulted by the sight 

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The smells pummel through me 

The energy as dark as night 

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Screams heard from every corner 

Howls of despair 

the wailing of fear 

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A man crying over limbs

that should still be there 

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A woman succumbing to the 

Fevers that took her 

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The God made Angels 

Frantically trying to do better 

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The Calibanesque  picture before me 

Grotesque 

Mutilated 

Disfigured 

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Is a vision that I would never have been

able to manufacture 

I Hope You Are Dancing In Your Sleep

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I ran to him

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“Are you okay?” 

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his expression brightened up like the sun 

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“I want to go dancing” 

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He smiles 

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And I laugh to join the fun 

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Tomorrow I heard you are no longer speaking 

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Your breath was taken from you 

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I hope you are dancing in your sleep 

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And my heart sinks knowing 

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That those were probably the last words 

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You will ever say to me 

I Saw The Way You Looked At Him

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I saw the way you looked at him

-Enamored 

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Like he was the one that broke the mould

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you loved him 

With appreciation 

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He was Midas 

And you wanted to live surrounded by his gold 

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I saw the way he looked at you 

-Enamored 

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He gazed downward upon you 

Like a fragile chick he wanted to nurture 

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He fed you

kept you warm

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He nestled you on his lap 

Cursed all the fears away in rapture 

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But he dare not touch you 

He dare not lose you 

Although it broke his heart in every way 

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He hurt himself 

For every moment he wanted you to stay 

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One morning you woke

He fawned over you adoringly 

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You saw that your touch brought mountains 

oceans to rooftops of glory 

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You shunned your own fears 

You kept yourself warm 

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You no longer needed him to keep you safe from the storm 

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You made your own palace 

With walls deep 

And walls strong 

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And you told him 

“I’m sorry

I do not love you anymore” 

Who Are We?

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As the stars turn above us, 

Your head upon my chest.

Your skin pressed against mine

Our bodies made to rest

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I lose the line between who we are 

Because 

Who are you ?

And who is she ?

As the stars turn above us 

Is it really important? 

The “who are we?”

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You are the missing piece 

That was unknowingly broken off of my soul 

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I was the missing piece 

that made your body whole 

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You are the part of me 

That I didn’t know I needed 

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I was the part of you 

That you needed to believe in 

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As the stars turn above us 

And we wonder 

“Who are we?” 

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Just know that we are two bodies 

Who are just 

Meant to be 

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She Loved Until She Lost Herself

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She loved until she lost herself

She gave until she was empty

She hung on until her fingers bled

And her hourglass was hungry

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She was an inveterate long time lover

each chapter in her life

sewn together neatly between each love

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Never knowing how to say goodbye

Never knowing when enough was enough

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It’s Where Your Compass Leads You

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You said you dreamt of it once 

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a freckle 

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Like a kiss upon her thigh 

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It’s where all the roads are traveled 

It’s where your compass leads you 

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It’s where the time goes 

When it flies by 

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It winks at you 

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like a LANDMARK 

To lead you home 

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And once you have landed 

It’s a lovely place to rest your head upon 

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#FOWC “landmark”

The Bridge Between Our Souls

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When our hands touch 

I am awakened 

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Our fingertips 

The bridge between our souls 

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Blood flowing

Vibrating with electricity 

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Tantalizing 

Brewing ,

A potion that cannot be undone 

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Because I want you more today than yesterday 

And I know I’ll still want you more when the day is done 

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When our lips touch 

A fire ignites within me 

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One that only you  know how to put out

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I am set ablaze 

Willingly 

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How could you ever have any doubt ?

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This body is yours forever 

Because it is mine 

And I put it into your hands 

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To extinguish this fire you set ablaze inside me 

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I am your woman

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you are my man 

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Where Were You ?

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They asked you for help

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With their silent eyes 

They called for you 

In their muted tears 

They screamed for you to see them 

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Where were you, then? 

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Making choices for “their best interests” 

Not caring when they told you

They felt helpless

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I’m sorry children

You had no advocate 

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I’m sorry your short life 

Had so much sadness In it 

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Where were you?

When their silent tears 

Flooded the streets

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Sitting in your toasty home 

Cuddled safely beneath the sheets

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How Dare You

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I have  been through a war 

Bullets flying pass my face 

Tip toeing around the grenades 

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I lived through the smoke 

bounded by chains

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I have been through it all

Fighting for equality 

Fighting for freedom 

Fighting for life 

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I’ve lived through the protests 

I marched for theirs 

Like I would march for mine

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how dare you

The years, the memories, the knowledge

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You knocked me down

 Cracked them out of me 

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I watched from right above you

As my body went limp 

If my brothers from war 

Could have seen what you did 

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Because we lived through the bullets

We tip toed over the grenades 

But all of your hate

is what took me to my grave 

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I Saw The Hate In Your Eyes

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I saw the hate in your eyes 

It was clear as day 

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The disregard for a life 

That you will soon take away 

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No cries from the helpless

Found its way into your soul? 

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No tears from the defenseless 

Made you want to make a different call? 

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I saw the hate in your eyes that day 

What disregard you have 

For a life you will soon take away 

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We Were Meant For Different Loves

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What we meant to each other 

Was something much larger than us 

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It was hopes 

And dreams 

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It was goals 

And love 

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It was fear 

And disappointment 

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It was longing 

It was loss 

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I will always remember the way your body felt 

When I rested my head upon your chest 

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The way your arms wrapped around me 

The way you carried me to bed 

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I will remember how your fingertips 

Electrified mine 

looking up at you 

Getting lost in your eyes 

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I will remember feeling like a piece of me was floating away 

When I had to leave your side 

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What we meant to each other once 

Was something much more than love 

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But we were star crossed lovers 

we were cut from different cloths

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We were children from different time zones 

meant to be together, we were not 

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Our souls were meant for different paths 

And sadly

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we were meant for different loves 

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Back To A Time

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sifting through a box of old things

Book after book

pamphlet after pamphlet 

treatise on anxiety and depression 

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I am brought back to a time 

when our lives were dictated by school bells 

And seating charts 

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Where one rumor 

Became our entire world 

And one heartbreak 

Was announced through 

The speaker hung walls 

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ages ago

An entire world away 

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I pack it back up 

to look back at another day 

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Weekly prompt @ NSTMP