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Best Poems Written by Cole Lee

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How Can I?

She told me
that I deserve love,
but not from her

She told me 
I should be happy,
but not with her

She told me
to focus on myself,
but not on her

She told me
to stay her friend,
but not love her

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Down the gravel road from the tiny mountain town

a cozy cabin slumbers on the mountain side, 
hidden within a thicket of wheatgrass
swaying in the brisk summer breeze, 
full of fresh fragrances of pine and spruce

Behind the cabin, a lanky tree
dangles a long rugged rope
with a ragged sack seat stuffed 
with horse hair that swings
higher than a mountain’s peak

Down the hill rests a mossy stone 
gate guarding a dirt path next to
a line of pine trees, hiding 
a shallow stream with weathered rocks 
poking through the icy water

Nearby, a mountain trail leads
to a massive rock and its proud
little tree placed upon its peak,
bragging perks go to the first
to reach the little tree

Further, the trail passes by
a random red brick fireplace
its vent poking through branches,
and a calm clear beaver pond,
plugged by the nearby lumber supply

These memories I leave to you
my fondest of my father

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A Villanelle I Must Tell

There are so many things I must say
In this fleeting moment of time
But go and have a wonderful day

Choking on words, I get in my way
For every thought, I’ll give a dime
There are so many things I must say

Locked up so tight, my mind might decay
To not tell you might be a crime
But go and have a wonderful day

Who can tell how much my brain weighs
It is a mountain of thoughts too tall to climb
There are so many things I must say

Listening, you’d feel on broadway
Until then, I’ll be a sad mime
But go and have a wonderful day

By now my day is looking gray
Haven’t said a thing, not even a chime
There are so many things I must say
But go and have a wonderful day

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Bullet for My Traffic

Sitting, knees bumping, fingers tapping
waiting for the Great Wall of China
to move. An angelic rift wafts over
the stereo, calming the boiling rage
bottling up in the gut for a few
more minutes.

The ambience, a slip into 
outer space, the guitar
sparking child-like awe-
a blessing to my strife

Holding back insanity with reins,
I scream I’m coming home
I’ve been gone for far too long

Brake lights two-step ahead
teasing a false reality
of turning tires

Thoughts drift across
the gaps in the music
the pot stopped boiling
an unsettling calm, into

A thundering storm
formed within the car

It seems I lost the reins, since
          my hearts burst into flames.

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Goose

`    Silly silly me
  always so optimistic
  up against fate’s cruel hand
  well, it used to work before
    back when my
         eyes
         had 
       spark
         and
         vigor
         But
        now                                                   i
      realize how                                   naive
   my optimism is, when            i’m the one 
who crushed her heart, and expect her
  to let me take hold of it after healing?
      Silly silly me, to think that she
             would give me grace
                          and
                         love 
                       me   
                  how 
                   she 
         used          to

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Sloth

It pulls from the back of my eyes, heavy
lulling my brain not to think, numbing
laying down my head
circuits shut down
depressed

Best way to describe it, I think
The way it pulls me to sleep
Losing time and mind,
The longer I lay
worse by day

Truly, a demonic curse
The self destroying sin,

Sloth

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I Once Read

i once read life is meaningless
without love

and it’s why my life
is filled with those i love

my mom, my siblings
my stupid friends

but

the mirror returns
no love

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The End

`                               I knew…
                                 the world’s end was coming
                                 she said so herself

                                 I knew…
                                 yet young optimism luring
                                 my unsuspecting self

                                 Until a small seed, sewn
                                 into the core
                                 Roots ripping and wrapping
                                 it into nothing,

                                 but a pit 
                                 in which I sit

                                                CRISIS
                                                         AVERTED

                                                                    The world is saved,
                                                                    she said so herself


                                                       but
                                                     the pit
                                                is not shallow

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Where did the time go?

I lay down, already twenty-
two. Memories of years past
flood in-  it was like a
month ago I visited New
York. No, a year?

Where did the time go?

I ponder while mindlessly scrolling,
instinctively-  unaware of what I
see. Hours of hours seeking the
small hits of dopamine that seep
into my brain.

Oh, that’s right-  addicted
to my phone, unaware the
Earth sped up its rotation,
days shorter and 
shorter,
filled by gray screens 
in this blue world.

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empty

the hole you left in my chest
a seed of unknowingness
slowly growing across my breast
engulfing me and whatever’s left
inside this vast nothingness

a void devoid of your presence
an inevitable evanescence
leaving only the essence
of longing depressants