Loss Watching Poems

This true story must be told,                                       ...

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I am sitting on a park bench 
Listening to the sound of my music
Staring off into the distance
As a tree catches my eye
It is dotted...

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Watching me watching you-revised

Once upon a time
You were here with me 
We were two of us
We were side by side
Wished upon a star

I will ask...

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You broke my heart by killing yourself.
Watching you go thru hell.
Though it wasn’t a quick death.
It was still a death.
How I will always wish things...

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“Howdy Amos”, “Howdy Seth”, without a glance.
Amos t’aint much for words as he stares straight ahead
His gaze as straight as his furrows.
Amos is what you...

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Layers upon layers,
flaking residue...
scraping at the inner walls of my heart,
priming the ruins of my disassembled dreams while
masking off all hope of bleeding out or...

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Today you were on my mind
But over the years I’ve come to find
No matter how much time passes by
Still there’s time I can’t help but...

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watching one you love
fading into something less
tortures your spirit

Edward J Ebbs - July 12, 2016...

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Shrub leaves lie curled in the dormant yard;
Trees shiver in their nakedness
As a crisp autumn wind exhales
Into the barren night sky.

On the corner of Walnut...

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Come with me and see
the perfection
and beauty
of African girl...
as she walk uphills,
water keg on her head
well kept,
on wool braided hairs
without hair-do- 
flashing like shining coal.

Beautiful...

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I watched

I watched when I was younger, a woman lose her life

To a man, to a rock, to a knot, and never become a wife.

I...

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I watched you slink
lower into numbing coat,
where warmth just boils
away any residue of respite,

saw how your smile
developed MD,
drooping like torn flesh,

and no matter how often
those...

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Cloud Watching



Grass tickling your neck
white pillows across the sky
           Your own gallery...

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Though my knees be weak,
Though my heart be but an organ,
Though my bones be broken,
Though my flesh be burnt as
     ...

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It's raining gods!
A flow of rare colorful gods
Sailors of soil-of-evermore
for last comrades, dreaming the outdoor

It's raining gods
It's raining gods,
the line accross all feigned-glories
their lord's irreversible...

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