Life Estranged Poems

So many things I wish I 
could have changed
Maybe then we wouldn’t 
be estranged 
Shattered pieces of me is 
all that remain
My life will never...

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This Time Last Month

A customer
Opens door
Bell lets out two rings
That smell of books
Telescopes
Globes and other things.

Travel guides
Atlases
Maps strewn everywhere
Customer
Breaks fourth wall
Speaks as if you're there:


"I...

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some families become estranged
and their lives become rearranged
things are not like they used to be
 where heartache looms for you and me
when families split up
and...

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Wearing your ego in that ride as you go
A new fragrance to hide an old flaw 
A cool flow that’s hot under the collar
In that...

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To myself I say this. 
Oh I do wish. 
Everything was the same. 
We are both the blame. 

Where have you been?it has been so...

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Hope that they still
celebrate Thanksgiving, 
in whatever alternate world 
that you're living

Hope there's great food
and laughter and peace,
that the people are kind
and happiness does increase

Hope...

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Dreams do not pursue me anymore
They stopped visiting the day I called
Them worthless
They melted away
In shock
With hurt welling up
In their eyes
They never again
And I refuse...

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"Estranged"

I see myself falling faster still, slowly losing all of my will.
I've come to know I am estranged, as some might call it 'being deranged'.
I...

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"Estranged Love"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Rhyme)

Countless days came and passed,
each day in misery spent.
every day I live as my last,
since the day you are absent.

Each day...

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Break into my life
Lock the cracked door
Slip off your shoes
Your creaking clothes
Sneak into my bed
Uncover my soul
Sweeten the sunrise
Caffeinated yet cold
Caress my regret
Callous naked me
Hold...

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Every brick in the cell has a date and a time, 
Ingrained in a blood red script; 
Countdown markers of a history of mine, 
Symbols...

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