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Best Poems Written by Sarah Leatherman

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Green Eyes

How does it work, this human heart
 Aches and pain, stress and stains
 Lingering taste that's left is tart
 Bitter to the core
 It keeps on feeding, always, forever
 Something I can't ignore

 Changing, reshaping, discolored and hard
 Alone and weak it struggles to go on
 It appears to be full, but actually starved
 Gazing down as the butterflies fly up
 Hard to breath, eat or sleep
 I never knew this road would be so tough

 Now and then I think of them
 All those who had a string
 All fools they seam, when compared to him
 Green eyes gazed into my soul
 What will be my fate
 Will I ever again gain control

 I hoped someone would understand
 Someday see who I am
 When the morning light hits my face
 Hear music in its place
 Im still here, and I hope one day
 That my ripple will one day reach the pier

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Serial

I'm not the first I know
 But will I be the last
 This dirty side you show
 We've definitely moved to fast

Who else has been here
 Do the faces blur into one
 Everything now is coming clear
 And no I'm not having fun

You wish you had a doll instead of a girl
 Never returning to the last
 Your touch now makes my toes curl
 A sickening feeling from the past

What did they have that I don't
 Not much to offer I guess
 You told me to scream but I won't
 The blood makes such a mess

She was the women you loved
 A replacement you work to create
 Your hands both tightly gloved
 You tell me I'm lucky number eight

Ashamed and naked I lay
 For all the world to see
 Someday I'll make you pay
 In the next life it may be

They wonder where I am
 No one would ever expect
 This lion prays on a lamb
 Your last prize to collect

A place I've never seen
 And still will not
 Your hands have been scrubbed clean
 The desert I lay in is hot

3 years to find my body
 My best years are gone
 They make you sound gaudy
 And turn me into a delicate swan

Plucked from her prime of life
 To let rot and decay
 All for the love of your wife
 Whose body next to,  I do lay

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Empty

Alone again within myself
 Emptiness with the faint sounding echo
 I swallow hard fighting back the tears
 Looking at the walls bland art deco

 I wish my brain used a megaphone
 And my heart could write a book
 Screaming brilliance into the night
 And words of all that love that was took

 If only my eyes were x-ray machines
 And could read what's on your mind
 Your eyes judging me endlessly
 Although you say your thoughts are only kind

 I wish my feet could change the hands of time
 Taking steps from present back into the past
 Would I write a new future? 
 A new shadow would I cast? 

 If only my voice spewed words of hope
 An ear to listen I would grasp
 Lips hypnotic to the eye
 Around your heart they would clasp

 I wish your arms were wrapped around me
 Squeezing this hallow shell
 Filling it with love and joy
 And taking me from this hell

 If only your hands would touch my face
 Bring warmth back to my cheek
 I feel I will blow away into dust
 And these,  the last words I would ever speak

 I pray your heart is always with me
 Together beating as one
 May you never forget me
 And may our course never be run

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Distance

The sweet scent of sea salt across your face
 The million miles between our hearts both time and space
 Memories of laughter, dancing and love together in one place
 Do you remember the dress I wore and my white veil of lace? 

 The years have come and gone, but I'm still here
 With each passing moment a breathless hope that you draw near
 Pondering still on how it all ended, so much left unclear
 Watching my changing reflection in this broken mirror
 The end creeps closer in each passing moment, alone in death I fear

 Blue majestic mountains set in front a fiery tipped orange sun
 Only first seen truly with my eyes when into your arms I did run
 Fate was set and paths chosen nothing to be undone
 All the time spent together, long passionate nights of fun
 Weight on my shoulders must weigh more than a ton

 You loved me once and  my heart was only for you
 Why such a harsh decision in the end we both came to
 Your eyes now only see a sky of green and the ocean blue
 A fog has set in and the past has become a hue
 12,000 miles away from me your heart flew 

 The hands of the clock are coming to a stop
 They say my heart no longer works and my blood pressure will drop

 My thoughts are with you as I leave this wrinkled shell
 I hear beautiful music and the distant familiar sound of a ringing wedding church bell

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Again

I dreamt again of you last night
 You looked exactly the same
 Your eyes full of passion burning so bright
 And we laughed together until the morning came

 It feels so real when you are there
 Like the years have not come to pass
 The cards we were dealt were not fair
 And our hearts fed to wolves of the mass

 I miss the sound of your laughter
 And the big smile I used to bring to your face
 I thought in the end a happy ever after
 But that just wouldn't be the case

 I know by now you don't look as I imagine
 That time has changed us both
 You,  a person i was never to abandon
 I wanted nothing more than to swear my oath

 How much has changed since our days of youth
 We have both found others to eas the pain
 Only in this poem can I finally speak the truth
 That in my heart you shall forever remain

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Her

My anger wells in my eyes
 Why does she threaten me so
 A different look, her different size
 Ears burn red, they almost glow

Is it hate, envy, jelousy.... love
 Why would I want to be anyone but me
 She would fit like a glove
 But disfigurement is all I see

He loved her once and maybe still
 Secrets kept deep within him
 A mountain to climb instead of a hill
 I hang here way out on a limb

Her green eyes drown my blue
 A smile that cuts me deep
 My sorrows fade in me, through & through
 For its his heart I shall keep

Passing through, a winter storm
 Cold to the bitter end
 I can see through to your real form
 This heart is now mine to mend

A faint memory of what once was now
 Grey eyes do gaze
 I'm pleased with my work and shall take a bow. 
 For together we've made it through this maze

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The Sleeveless Heart

A deep impression it's made
 Soaked in red, never to fade
 Drips down my arm and onto my leg
 A price said now fully paid

 True blue it once was
 Sounds of a drum make my ears buzz
 Scars show from all of my loves
 With no reasoning,  just because

 Be gentle with this frail thing
 Cut it out and it will no longer sing
 Ruled once by his majesty the king
 Held on now by nothing now but a string

 I wear it here to show my curse
 No pain to gain, nothing could be worse

 But true I stand, still to myself
 No fortune to gain, only my own self wealth.