Birthday Love Hurts Poems

We never made it to my birthday, but at least we made it to yours 
26 days before mine, 11 after yours; I think my...

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To feel love is to feel a cold knife stab you through the heart.
To taste love is to eat a birthday cake with icing too...

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I still love you
Like I loved painting when I was eight
I still look at you 
Like I was seeing a puppy when I was nine
I...

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Walking through the halls was like getting poked with a thorn 
Dating you was a nightmare
The side glances from people I didn't know
The way your...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Out with his boys drinking, feeling rowdy
Special occasion
Rolling the way they do
His lover is not with them
She stayed in for the night
He misses her company
But...

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A soldier marched towards me ~ so tall and straight just like a tree
In his military boots his height exceeded well over six foot three
For...

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Throughout my youth, up to about my fourth
birthday, I was a happy, playful boy.
War won, dad was back, and from that day forth
I was his...

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Mother Nature does not need us
and we just don’t get it

We living in a time where staying away from people you care about is a...

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Heaven Here

I stare at the photo, 
unbidden… tears fill my eyes. 
I can barely see. 
I hate that about me. 
You would laugh. 
You always...

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I Came By…
(to see you)

You don’t see me. 
I see you, everyday. 
I am afraid to say hello. 
You may say good-bye. 

I just want...

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The Mermaid Calls

You draw me close, 
and I can not swim. 
You lure me, 
tempt me, 
and tell me…
things.

Your beauty is beyond, 
all that I...

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Tricks in the Dark

Evil does not need to be, 
ever in the shadow. 
In fact, it likes to walk, 
among us… best. 

It hides and...

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Red Rover

You know the rules. 
You had your chance. 
You lost. 
Now…
My turn. 

I will tell her the sky dims when she smiles, 
As her...

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My Best Friend

Carries a great load around. 
I can see it in her eyes, her stance…
Sometimes I hear it just beyond the words, 
she speaks...

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