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Best Poems Written by Josephine Scott

Below are the all-time best Josephine Scott poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Alone

Too painful to hope
And foolish to dream
Turn away from it all
That's easier it seems

Forget about heart
Abandon the soul
Lead with the head
Forge a new goal

To shut out the hope
Protect from the pain
Rewrite the dreams
The rules of the game

Send it down deep
This unbearable need
Cover it over
No more shall it bleed

Less painful this way
No love to be yearned
Contentment enough
Alone can be learned

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Lesson

To trust is to risk betrayal
To need is to risk emptiness 
To hope is to risk rejection 
To feel is pain

Head too busy
Heart too heavy
Skin too thin
Feel too much

Turn away from it all
Pull up the drawbridge 
Turn off the lights 
Detach and numb

Deny feeling
Reject need
Stifle hope
Trust no one

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Tomorrow

So heavy
Too heavy to hold up my head
I rest it on my arms
Too tired to be today 

So weary 
Too weary to pay much attention 
To the chatter and the questions 
That beset me today 

To hope, to dream 
To wish for better 
All of these things escape me today 

No sun can be glimpsed 
Through the dark gloom 
Of today.

And so
I wait for tomorrow

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Inexorable

I want you to come to me
Like the moon comes to the sun
Like an inevitability
Like dawn after deepest night 

I want you to come to me
Like waves breaking on the shore
Like a natural order
Like calm after a raging storm

I want you to come to me
Like the moth drawn to the flame 
Like irresistibility 
Like sweet release from exquisite pain

I want you to come to me 
The oxygen breathing life to my fire
Like symbiosis
The reciprocal synergy of desire

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Shame

Hot on the heels of need
A feeling like no other
A crawling, spreading sensation
Insides leaking out 
Too painful to show
Too needy
Too sticky 
Repulsive and ugly
Overwhelming urge to hide 
Curl up; defend with rejection 
Soothe with avoidance
The bliss, however temporary, of numbness 
Until
Need is awoken again