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When I Am Still

On days that I am still, 
I find I miss you more. 

I need someone 
to talk to 
who will understand 
and 
have the capacity to contemplate 
deeply, beside me. 

When I am still 
I wonder if I am truly happy 
when I am not still. 

Is happiness 
now busyness or 
am I just so distracted that I do not 
know true joys 
anymore?

When I am still I think about love. 

I want to feel love 
like I had when you were alive. 
It will be different 
because 
it won't be you,
but still 
maddening and romantic 
all at once. 

I wish I had time 
and someone 
to spend time with. 

We could run away for a few days 
and find pure happiness 
in the simplicity of 
listening to the forest as we hike a mountain. 
Or looking at the stars as he held me that night. 

We could be still, 
Together. 
But when I'm still, 
Even with him,
I find I miss you more.

Copyright © Molly Barnes | Year Posted 2017



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Unlocking Secrets

I wish you could look at someone, 
and 
in just the tilt of your head 
when you look at them 
or the wrinkle of your face 
when they make you smile, 
that overlooked little gesture could 
have the power 
to unlock all the secrets of your life.  

Like a silent movie, 
your past, 
the pain you have dealt with, 
the joys you have come to find; 
it would all be projected before them 
as an intimate look into your soul. 

You could allow them 
to see what you've seen 
and to feel what you've felt- 

but on a smaller scale 
so it doesn't 
break their heart 
and destroy them 
as it did to you; 

Yet still,
it makes them deeply aware of 
all your fears 
and your dreams. 

Those few seconds would be 
the most intimate 
dance of emotion 
you'd ever share with someone, 
and they'd know 
exactly who you are 
because of that experience.

Copyright © Molly Barnes | Year Posted 2017


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