People Abandon Poems

A house so old and ruined even the ghost moved out
shutter and boarder with the roof caved no doubt
decay and desolate not a vagrant dare
seek...

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I've known you now for forty years, and yet
you seem to lack familiarity.
I used to smile, dance a foxtrot with you -
and trip with joy...

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he wears his heart
like an old familiar coat
out for us and them to see
thrown across his shoulders
loosely wrapped
so nonchalant
I recognize the solitude
and how he wears...

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Stay is such a strong word
Some people are Stayers
Some people are Abandoners
Some people are stuck in-between
What do we call them...

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As a child I would never have abandoned 
my family, my friends, or my dolls.
As a pre-teen the dolls were put away with reluctance,
because I...

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I get scared 
That my friends
And my boyfriends
Will give up on me
Will realize that there are better people out there
 More interesting 
Better looking
Less emotional
People...

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Sometimes it's as if I still 
don't know
That I have to let you go
As hard as parting the sea
So too shall this 
challenge me
Is it...

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Life is hard 
Life is ruff
Sometimes we feel what we have ain't good enough
We abandon people we trust and leave them in the dust
Then we...

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In this place your truths are bleeding.
Athens is here no more.
She travels down a cart-track,
with a useless spare wheel in the trunk.

She named Hyakinthus Apollo
and...

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i will be your untold lie
your broken glass
your silent echo of dreams-waking
to search only for what was left
broken & bleeding,
in that long ago doorway
those shattered...

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when the world falls,
will you be my figurehead queen?
dark regent, of my secret heart & broken-glass dreams
drip waterfall lies from full pink lips
& bleed out...

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