Stress Relationship Poems

Her goodnight clothes send me an invitation that reads: come play with me
Oversized sleep tee leaves room for my palms to follow your skin 
Fuzzy...

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Not one to run when I hear an alarm,
But I have no desire to do others harm.
        ...

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The ugly face of stress
peeking out from under your skirt
tearing the peace of just another day
into pieces you can manage
swallow or scatter

The ugly face of...

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A shadow of the self
but a sliver of me
you know the inner self
and the turmoil that can be

Perhaps I have shown
you more of my self
then...

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(Intro)
From her I get …

From her I get …

(Vs 1)
She validates my existence
Leaves me always wanting more
I just love her sweet persistence
Yes, she’s the one...

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I'm beating my heart against a barbed wire fence.
Pain from all directions.
I don't know what to do..
It's killing me.

I just want this pain to stop,
It's...

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It’s cute when a young child keeps asking why.
Without an answer they think they will die.
Some don’t ask questions because they are shy.
Some others give...

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When day’s chores are tucked away,
I imagine you ‘that’ way.
My heart pounds within my chest.
I’m disarrayed and distressed.

The walls are too close, I feel
each corner...

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a buffer between the you and the me
the constant mediator chaperoning

criticizing with its glare and pursed lips
negating the realm of possibilities

as it downplays the fragranced...

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Too much enlightenment
with not enough empowerment
depresses me to feel isolated
and surrounded by self-impressed fools,
like me
or against me.

Too much empowerment
with not enough enightenment
anticipates
and advocates
and avidly endorses
narcissistic...

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Peter Perfect
lived his life
by the rules of
his darling wife,
who cleaned and swept
and cooked and fed him
and once a month
dutifully bedded him;
getting that chore
out of the...

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Dear Neighbors,
community co-investors,
sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons
and an indoor
historical CommonSpace

Both, and all, sacred
to panentheistic me
and probably more mundanely secular
to monoculturing LeftBrain dominant
verbally rationalistic
you

And yet,...

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Relationship's stress:
Gives awful distress;
Depression caress,
Patience can't assess,
What lone words undress.

In my mind's bus;
I sit mistrusts,
To alight fuss,
While turning wuss.

Our affair;
Faults ensnare,
To repair...

Weird souls'
Wrath goals,

Paired!...

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next time I’ll grab the reins
of those exhausting relationships
I’m fed up and simply can’t
sit through another
one-way conversation
I just can’t do it anymore

next time I’ll ask
because...

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“I’m scared to love you, please don’t hurt me”
New and exciting
Two hearts longing for one another 
Hips colliding 
Every laugh, every kiss, every hug
You 
Me...

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