For Her Missing Poems

My dear Isabel,

The days have become shorter, the chill bites the air and as I'm walking back through the apple trees, I think of that...

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Being forced to move places,
Because I have no control.
It shows how stuck I am;
How reliant I am;
How not free I am.
I am seventeen, feels like...

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Sitting on the bench, beneath which a green blanket covers the ground, and above, the ceaseless sky shines with her thoughts that never end. ...

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The world didn’t stop, and neither did I,
but something’s missing when I walk by.
I wait for her in spaces that don't know her name, 
a...

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While you drown in tears everynight 

she dosent even care enough to think about you once

While you kneel and beg for her to return 

she...

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“A parent's love will shield their pain
        so that new happiness can reign.”
     ...

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Maybe you’ve seen Janet
she’s from another planet
making all her regular stops
at the local charity shops
loves a second hand rail or two
lives in the land of...

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I love seeing you after a long week
I hate the feeling of driving to your house
I love how we play video games together
I hate that...

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forty years transcend
evaporates in a trice
life suite an echo...

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Deep beneath the old oak tree
Past the backyard swing I oversee
A land so baron, where nothing grows
The land I can feel, it somehow knows
What's been...

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The t.v. series,
A Little Princess,
reminds me
of my dad's gift
of a dark-haired
porcelain doll...

...I gave away
to compensate
for feeling spoiled
--that I begged
for her at all

Being a generous
gift-giver was...

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As she lay back on the bed
She gave herself away 
With hands pinned to the bed
It was time to blow her mind away 

In between...

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I feel like am in a dark hole,
Being sucked in by her thoughts hovering in my head like a satellite in space.
I have found myself...

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If I could but forget your touch
Your embrace, so warm and tight
The way you sang, so sweetly much
And how your words lit up the night

If...

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Your smile shines bright
Fields can't contain its light
Miss it with every step
Longing for our chat, kept

Hellen, your name I say
In every statement, it stays
Title of...

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