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My Tenth Beer and You

You disappeared like foam on a slow rolling wave
You sang a deep-throat song like from a small creature
Your gaze sang songs of sad sunrises to me
You shook my world leaving me by Life's roadside

On dark alleys running through my imagination
You sought people with sad souls 
I became confused, your sadness overwhelmed me 
your discontent hung like lone shadows on a barren hillside

Lover's pain is meant to teach fragile lessons of the heart
The pain you inflicted on me is an open wound I hide in my soul 
I'm not naive, I know that life is not a frivolous party
but neither should it be all pain  

A peaceful anxiety engulfs me
As I sit wafting through the winter of my sorrow 
trying to make sense of us
you were my chosen one, I chose my pain
You are not to blame

You were the guiding star in my life for a short minute
my father should have warned me
women like you come soft and cuddly like kittens
but leave in a fiery destructive storm 

But it's too late now, 
you are with him wherever you are
and I am here sitting on the floor sobbing
embracing my tenth beer.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Chircop Avatar
July 18, 2018 at 2:40 PM
I can feel the ache of absence through your words..Franco.
Chircop Avatar
July 18, 2018 at 2:53 PM
Oh ,sorry if I gave you that impression.I just returned after a year or more of absence..so hopefully I'm here to stay..'Farewell'..I was referrring to the Goodbye in your poem..yesterday.Sorry I mislead you..:)
Cisneros Avatar
July 18, 2018 at 2:50 PM
Thank you again, still much humbled by you feeling my offering. I hope you don't leave.
Man Avatar
June 28, 2018 at 5:02 AM
This made my heartache.. it's so good!
Cisneros Avatar
June 28, 2018 at 4:49 PM
Thank you for your heartfelt comment. You write some good poems yourself.
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