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Best Poems Written by Jared Mitchey

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Burn the House Down

You could fix up my shattered windows
Patch up the holes in the walls
Find a way to make the incessant creaking
Of the floorboards–hush
Make the faucets stop their aching
Drip…drip…drip…
New shingles 
New doors
New cupboards and cabinets 
Make my old bones feel new again–
What I really want
Is to be set ablaze
Ashes to ashes
All my flaws and failures 
Gone with the strike of a match
Then and only then–
Pick up your hammer

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Memento Mori

What good would it do,
Son of Peleus,
To pull that arrow from your heel?
As you lie there helpless, 
Legs useless and folded beneath you.
Your hand clenched around its fletchings 
Searching for the source 
Of sensations unfamiliar to you.
Pain. Suffering. Mortality. 
How strange…

You are only half god and half man,
And all men must die, even you,  Aristos Achaion.
The god's gift to you was not invulnerability, but speed.
And with that tendon we now name after you severed,
You are just as human as the rest of us. 
That expression of anguish as you look to the sky.
Helmet still dawned as if you could leap up 
And slaughter hundreds more Trojans, but you cannot.

An enraged fall from Godhood 
Forever immortalized in white stone.
Centuries later it still stands. 
Worn and weathered
By the years and all the heavy eyes that fell upon your misery,
Like pouring rain from dark clouds above.

The paradigm of human fatality and flaws.
But you were a god, somewhat at least.
You thought that you would live forever - 
We all think that sometimes.

Remember that you have to die.
Otherwise, how do we know that we spent our life living?

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Capitalism

I’m not at all interested
in your product
You shouldn’t even be for sale
Put your wallet down 
for a minute
Just look in my eyes
and tell me 
your aspirations in life
There is no monetary value 
assigned to what I desire
“I love you”
doesn’t cost but a breath

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Court of Lies

In a court of lies
The jester sings a silly song 
About an abstract notion 
Called love
To a Queen that will never see him
As anything     
Other than a fool

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Reborn

When you lose someone
you forget how it feels
to be cared for 
And when another 
comes along
and cares for you 
in that way–
It’s like being reborn