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Best Poems Written by Harriet Coppard

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What are you burning

What are you burning 
I think it's your soul 
Breathing in smoke
That won't fill the hole 

And when you breathe out
Your chemical pain
Your heart is still bleeding 
And numb just the same 

Emptiness comes 
You know it so well
The hours of nothingness 
Then breaking the spell 

Dead ends and grey roads 
You've been here before
Run while you still can
Then run on some more

Escape this distra
It doesn't exist 
You get back the love 
The love that you missed

And one day you'll look back
Look back and see
You rose up from nothing 
And you will be free

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In gentlest hands

They walk as if they're guided
By winds and gentle hands
Hold lanterns the distance 
Held in childish hands

Afar you see them floating 
Their Laughter echoes on
Those gentle hands caress them
These ghosts we are among 

They were the Children of the sun
But darkness called so sweet
They embraced the gentlest hands 
Walked with childish feet

They dissappear into the gloom
Watch the fading light
Those gentle hands have taken
Those children of the night

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Wraiths

We are the wraiths 
Floating above 
Embracing the ghosts
Of our chemical love

Weare the ones 
you're not sure you see
Hiding in shadows 
Barely perceived 

We search out the alleys
The cut throughs, the lanes
Old rusting bridges
That echo our names

Waiting for runners
When did they leave 
Bring us the air 
That only we breathe 

Empty glass vials
And sharp metal pins 
Empty and deadly 
Yet smiling within

Such obvious secrets
Betrayed in our eyes
Our scars and our tracks
Our mouths full of lies

But we'll smile in your judgment 
Because we are the grey
In your black and white world
Of lightness and day

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I am the dark

What am I doing 
Am I out of control 
Spiralling Spiralling 
To where I don't know

I haunt haunted places
Obsessed by the pain
Waiting to feel
The darkness again 

I am the dark 
I need to be free
Never condemned 
By normality

So I'll walk down those paths
I know them so well
I'll stay in my shadows 
A comfortable hell