Life Sad Love Poems

(FICTION, PLEASE.  It is easy for me to write in the first person, but nearly all my poems are fiction.  Please don't attribute...

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Never met her, yet I've heard
the crazy Tante von Vogt
lived her life as any would,
if they were crazy.

She'd walk to butcher's each week
no nod greeting...

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I tremble before you, my vying emotion
I thought I could be loved with complying emotion

My mirror used to love my sight
there is no more of...

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This is what it is like? 
Is this my reward? 
What I deserve. 

Devoted and hard working 
Back is breaking 
Cage me 
Wrestle 
Tug and...

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My whole nervous systems fried
There's a day I haven't cried
From the feelings I've bounced
all around--it's like you pounced
On a heart you suffocated
That can't be resuscitated
My...

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Being tugged at pulled apart
Every time I tried to start
My life over I'd just fail
I put myself in a jail
Of despair- no escape key
A life...

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**Content warning: depicts abuse (please skip to one of my more lightheaded poems if one needs to).


To you, your abuse began as a game or...

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I never knew that I could hurt
So bad till I saw you flirt
With a girl behind the bar
Smiling brightly like a star
I was gonna get...

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 "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams" Edgar Allan Poe

 My true love was always my moonbeam
 To breathe her light
 She...

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A Love Not Worthy of 

I carry in my dreams in the corridors of my mind,
In the maze which is my life, a picture of...

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Title; "Chasing Little Joys"

For quite some time now, I've become desensitized to my challenges 
to the reality of my existence. 
I've been holding on to...

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Who are you
Dan McGrew?
You sound quite mean
If rumours' true

You lodged yourself
Inside his head
Some seventy years
Still, now you're dead

A tale of love
Of bars and booze
The wheel...

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Coloring when you're younger is letting each shade have it's alone time
They say elders deserve it
But I never had the opportunity to see your hair...

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VII: Give me time...

Give me time, they say it will heal
But I don't want to forget the emotions I feel
But that's not what I'm worried...

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