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Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty 


when you're not looking

do you consider me 

what i'm thinking

why i stay

away 

did you know that i do

your 

not mine

and i'm a nobody's girl

suffocated

by those who were looking at me looking back at them

willing then

took their kill

i stay away

even when you are looking

especially then

been bled out

i'm just a shadow of my former self

sitting pretty someplace else



aeh | 12/20/13

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Unfamiliar Freedom

Unfamiliar Freedom To immerse oneself in all our familiar comforts does not set us free To follow only what we think we need and want does not set us free To believe with certainty what is best for us and strive for it does not set you free To appreciate just one familiar comfort creates a passage with unbound freedoms To move past not knowing what we need we can be found To believe that any trodden terrain has purpose for what we need holds merit in freedom from certainty 9/1/2009 aeh | HTB

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My Heart Falls

My Heart Falls Skips a couple of beats My breathe stops With sudden silence My eyes tear My skin grows warm Remembering when I see What used to be Then a heavy fog rolls in It weighs me down Down onto the ground Deeper my heart falls No smiles now Just rush of solemn pain I long for sweet the day Lightly the rain again * aeh 2/7/2012

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