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Sailor's Wife

O, temptress thief, With your fragile hands upon me. I let you take me like a tide, Takes a body out to sea. I waited three long years, Like the wife of a sailor waits ashore. Unyielding like a moth aflame, Like a child that shrieks for more. And now I reel back from Limbo; And now I leave the bay. It took me three long years to finally find, That I simply ran you away.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 5/2/2012 8:36:00 AM
Evokative... Terry
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Date: 4/24/2012 3:02:00 AM
Great write, Jessica! One can feel the torment and sense the closure in this poem.
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Jessica Vh
Date: 4/24/2012 4:07:00 PM
Thank you!

Book: Shattered Sighs