Best Afterward Poems

My hearts been blended again
you say 'im sorry'
but i cant even begin
im not ready to forgive

haunted by your face
drawn by the memories
forced away by your hate

we dont communicate
you want nothing to do with me
when once you said i meant everything

i loved everything about you
there was...

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Here it is again
that feeling of uncertainty
the chaos calling me
Creates a storm within
Fierce and heavy
No god to blame
the entire weight
of my solitary condition
collapses me
My doing
My burden

Her hands were dirty
Stained with black ink
Eyes wide, deep, brown
Her name I do not know
Fingers bare
No commitments
She seemed so beautiful...

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See Dick run, in the golden latterly years,
When past is gone, the future premieres.
Jane is a librarian, in the floral ruby days,
Sally is a teacher, in the tangerine phase.

Puff pursues orange butterflies in heaven,
And he and Spot frolic, in sunshine lemon.
Mother and Father reside in...

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Seen from the bruised sheets
the two open mouths of her shoes
(one face down and drunk
the other lopsidedly agape)
speak to him in groans and murmurs.

Her face smudges the glass
in the bathroom mirror;
she is squeezed into a jar of light.

Headlights strafe the curtains.
Her dress still clings
to the...

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The language of our elders 
whispers soft upon our skin.
We see it in the landscape of our lives.
Trees dance to it. 
They pull the soul of life 
from out the earth.
We will say the flowers grow. 
We will say the winds blow.
But the truest words...

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