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5 Words

1/22/2021

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5 words and no explanation.
No closure.
No way to respond.
5 words and you're gone.
Was that all she meant to you? 
Was that all she was worth? 
5 words and then you walk?
All the promises,
All the plans,
All the late nights,
The music that held you in its sway
20plus years and a knock on the door
And 5 words tore it apart.
5 words broke her will
Broke her resolve
Called into question everything she thought she believed.
5 words
Just 5 words and a betrayal
Without even a kiss on the cheek.
Enjoy your pieces of silver
​As you dangle from your tree.
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The Chosen

1/21/2021

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The chosen left without warning
She still on her knees in the temple
Offering, bargaining anything she could recall
for one last grasp of his hem, 
one touch of his sandal. 
Wrapped in sacred clothes, 
he would glance at her from the side
yet, she hung on every word. 
What came from his mouth was gospel
and one touch could change her world.

The chosen left without warning
as she wailed and tears flowed.
She, left behind in the temple
​surrounded by scraps of what wasn't but could have been. 
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2:22

1/15/2021

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You swore an aversion to being controlled
Yet, here you are, salting the bountiful to sow among weeds
And for what? 
Because you were told you would burn? 
Or was it because you lack the conviction to actually choose the narrow path? 
It is easier to be led by the collar
than to break the chains you've now welded.
To turn your face from the warmth of the sun to nest in a cavern of dank despair. 
Blessed be the man who runs from his own happiness
for he shall inherit the crown of the martyr
and drink from the bitter sponge of self righteousness. 

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01032021

1/3/2021

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How does it feel?
Now that you know you’ve broken her.
Now that you e taken her down to the base
Now that you’ve ripped her stability and made her question her very sanity?
How does it feel?
Now that you’ve given her no reason or rhyme
Now that you’ve taken her future 
And made her question her past
Made her question her decision to trust
Made her question her worth
How does it feel? 
Are you powerful now? 
Are you fulfilled?
Are you happy now that you’ve left her in utter confusion and pain? 
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Obliterated

12/31/2020

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Fair is not a word that can often be used in matters of the heart
In this case there is simply no application
Blindsided
Forsaken
Obliterated
​Unanswered
Those words fit
Those words tell the tale of your abrupt departure
And what was left in its wake
Those words tell of what it is like to be thrown away like so much trash
After giving all I had and leaving nothing behind.
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Absolution

9/10/2020

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Unforeseen
A bolt shot through the gloom
Transfigured my soul
Ignited a blaze
Searing unbounded
I am consumed
Submerged
Pulled by the tide
Going under --- swallowed whole
Prepared to exhale
​Welcoming absolution
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The Park

4/16/2020

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He came here every day.

That secluded park where friendship blossomed into something else.

That lonely pew where fidelity was pledged.

He held his memories as sacred treasure

Under the spectral moonlight.

The landscape now as parched as is vitality

This would be his last call.

They'd shared their final libation.

He committed the cruet to the ground as a manifestation of what was.

A legacy of days passed.

Silently, he shuffled up the trail

With hopes to join her again.

Eyes closed, focused on the road untraveled.
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My Mistake

4/6/2020

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​I have no time anymore
To dissect the underbelly of society
Relocated to the friend zone and hung out to dry
 
I have no time anymore
I’ve already swept that floor
I can no longer stand and look to the future
Waiting for the rain of possibility
 
I have no time anymore
for selfish dreams and underwhelming realities
I’ve misled myself for too long.
 
My mistake…

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Run To Me

3/2/2020

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Should we take a chance, darling? 
What are we worried about?
We could be fire
We could burn this place to the ground.

I think you know it and so you run.
But I'll wait patiently for you to come to me
And we will ignite.
We will take it all with us
As we cut and run
Cause we're on fire, darling
And we're going to take it all down. 
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I don't need you

6/19/2019

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I don't need you.
I want you.
I want to see your face in the daylight
when the sun is high and the day is fresh with hope

I want to see your face in the night
when dusk sets in and makes quiet my weary mind.

I want to see your fact at midnight
a time reserved for those mired in love
starving for the touch of another
ruled by desire and genuine need.

I don't need you. 
Don't twist that. 
I want you.

I want to know you the way others don't. 
I want a backstage pass to the person you reserve for when the curtains are drawn
and the city is still 
The person you keep away from polite company. 
​That's the you I want. 
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