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Liquid Love

My reflection is too heavy to bear alone, it’s easier to look at myself and my failures through the amber liquid, tears through my system, warm and sure. You left me gracefully, lackluster Shutting the door on us softly without a word Void of fireworks and battle cries, with blockbuster neglect, taking your shattered armor and rusty sword. This battle you have won with each tip of the bottle, in the direction of my throat is a rifle. Will you be the trigger to my gun? My stomach twists into slipknots. Escape is too easy at this dangerous hour But I am no coward and I face my gallows though the vision of a bottleneck to slacken the rope. I have waited for you to steady these trembling hands with the power of the sun. Please stop my shaking fingers with laugh that I miss the most. I crushed what I could of what remained of your smiles into the glasses I pour my vices into, just to have you around. You shine, its easy to mistake your human actions for a divine intervention of a false god. My faith is weak. Shattering with every blink, I can see the thousands of mistakes that I have made, and it cuts into everything. You cut into everything. Shattering me after every swallow You cut into everything. My liquid love.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 4/16/2016 1:18:00 AM
Bella Cardenas. Nice to read your poem today. enjoyed ~LINDA~
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Date: 12/16/2011 12:29:00 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours Bella. Love and blessings, Carol
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Date: 11/18/2009 4:15:00 PM
so very powerfull and so very sad....light & love
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Date: 9/2/2009 3:11:00 PM
Nice work with a stunning title.
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Date: 7/16/2009 3:24:00 AM
Bella, where are you and your wonderful poetry? Miss you here at the Soup. Love, Carol
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Date: 5/23/2009 6:53:00 PM
My son battles his liquid love. It's a war and he's losing ground. Again, your talent shines through. Vince
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Date: 4/27/2009 10:25:00 AM
So full of angst and a sense of betrayal, of love turning out to be the complete opposite of what a lover expected it to be. Reading this reminds me so much of some lines of an old Nazareth song 'Love Hurts'..."Love hurts, love scars, not strong enough, I realy learned a lot..." Powerful stuff you've got here, Isabel. Hey, where have you been hiding all these days? Fred
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