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Shattered Crystal

With bone dry eyes she studies

The shattered crystal at her feet

Seeing each tiny fragment

As a lost day in her wasted life.

She never meant to be here,

Expected implosion rather than explosion,

But sometimes things don't go as planned

and tripping through broken glass

is all there is.

 

A broom she thinks,

But sweeping would be symbolic

and she cannot--

Will not be erased

 

Falling to her knees,

She bloodies her fingers

in an attempt to place the pieces

but her dreams are too badly broken

and glue only blends with the tears

She doesn't know she's cried.

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Mama's Tears

When Steffie died,
She lived on
as tears on Mama's cheeks.
The bright colored dresses
with delicate lace
and the dolls with button eyes
were put away
But, still Mama cried.
Why is death? 
she asked me,
And I tried to remove the tears,
But like hot metal
They were molded to her cheeks.
I couldn't answer her question
And I cried too
Because I didn't know.

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Kiss Me While I Sleep

Kiss me while I sleep," you said.
Then you closed your eyes and left,
And I just sat beside the bed
Feeling  alone and bereft.
I know we had a deal
And I promised not to cry,
But even as I said it,
You had to know it was a lie.
Alter loving you so many years
How could there not be tears?
 
I kissed you while you slept
And I tried to hold back my sorrow,
But I couldn't do all that you asked
and I can't even fathom tomorrow.
I know life will go on
and that you're in a better place
But how do you seal a lifetime
With just a kiss upon the face?
 
 
 
"Kiss me while I sleep," you said.
"It is just a long goodnight.
Wake me when you get to heaven
I promise it will be alright,
Kiss me while I sleep,
And know you loved me well."
I did as you asked,
but still a teardrop fell.
Still I'll kiss you one last time
And I'll hold it deep inside
One more kiss  that says you love me
And our love can never die.

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Becoming Undone

I waited for you with bated breath 
In hopes that once again 
We could share that oneness 
we knew when we were friends. 
But has time and distance erased 
The closeness we once knew? 
Because I feel so very alone, 
Even though I am here with you. 
You offer me love I cannot touch 
As I sit drowning outside in the rain. 
The simplest things matter so much 
Can a voice from the past ease my pain? 
Our wandering feet took separate paths 
Straying far from the ones we once knew, 
but I thought I might unlose myself 
Once I found my way back to you. 
But my journey was over even as it begun 
And hot tears burn a trail down my face 
Because some broken hearts can't be re-strung 
And true friends are too hard to replace. 
But what good is a heart that you cannot touch? 
Or a hand that you reach for in vain? 
Must I run from the place where I once sought my shelter 
To stand shivering alone in the rain? 
Sometimes old clocks can't be unwound 
Are time and love ever truly free? 
Each journey is long and painful 
As I long for how things used to be.

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The Poetess

The hourglass was now empty
And suddenly she was out of time,
So she walked away from a life
That no longer seemed to rhyme.
The sand had slipped through her fingers
Through a crack in the bottom of the glass
Canceling out her future,
Mowing her down like old grass.
She couldn't see beyond the moment,
Couldn't save the inked out dreams.
The hands on the clocks were all broken
And forever is as long as it seems.
Time cares for no one. 
Sometimes it just stops on the track
Refusing to let life move forward,
Like a demon, it sits on your back.
The hourglass still stands empty
And the clock with no face has no hands
While the watches all run backwards
And no one understands
That tomorrow was never an option
It lies dead amid the grains at her feet
As she walks away from her life
And a poem she just couldn't complete.

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Invisible

Lonely teardrops
snake down her cheeks
as she sits alone in a crowd
breaking down the barriers
between life and death
while watching her life's blood
drip slowly down a rusty drainpipe
She falls softly
into the arms of no one
To die scattered on the floor
And the people tread roughly over her
As they make their way to the door

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Fading

I knew it was finally over
when I looked into your eyes
and saw nothing more 
than yesterday's news.
nothing different in the headlines,
just crumpled yellow paper,
faded words
disintegrating between
grainy images of the past.

I knew it was finally over
When your eyes
once the windows to your soul
became just a vacant camera lens
with its dusty shutter drawn
And our painted pictures of better days
began to crackle and peel
And fall from the walls
melting into the dust.

I knew it was finally over
when I could watch you
wander aimlessly away and feel nothing.

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Sometimes

Sometimes------
Things get so bad
And you can't even tell God
So you prop yourself up in a corner
And you wait for the world to stop moving
And you think that the spin might subside
But it doesn't------
 
So you sink to your knees
Pulling the crumbling  walls down upon you
Waiting to be buried beneath them
Wanting to lie flat,
be insignificant
unseen, unnoticed.
 
Not quite----
But the world closes in
Squeezes you so tight
Until you can't breath.
Nonexistent air floats around your face,
Teasing your nose,
almost crawling through closed nostrils.
But instead becoming tears
And burrowing into your cheeks
Leaving dry cracks and crevices in their wake.
 
You push yourself back
Wanting to fall into darkness and hide,
But it is too bright where you land
And your painted on pupils boil and melt
Fusing to your skull
and dripping poison onto your brain.
Not a dream--------- no escape.
 
Sometimes it is so bad
And you can't  tell  nobody
Because even God
stopped listening months ago.
The angels stuffed their wings into their ears
and  your prayers go straight to voicemail.
 
And your hurt is so deep
You just want to furl into yourself
becoming a ball of tears
but you can't even cry
cause your eyes are puffed
and swollen shut
 even a teardrop can't squeeze through.
 
And you tell yourself
that you've been here before
It is all the same,
 but so much different than then.
Sometimes you've just got to
sit on your hands
waiting for an end to the chaos.
waiting for the world to just-- 
Stop

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Just a Thought

Sometimes I believe my dreams
Are nothing more than empty schemes,

And far from standing great and tall,
The truth reveals me, insignificant, small,

And all the words I say or write
Will vanish with me in the darkest night.

But inside I know I don't dream in vain,
Even when dreams die amid tears of pain.

Because all I dream and all I do
Is dreamt or done for love of you.

So when I die and they forget my name,
If you have loved me, I've got my fame.

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More Than a Little

I was more than a little in love

Fitted to you----The proverbial glove

Caught up in requited fire

Touching the stars, yet ebbing higher.

Didn't matter that we'd barely met

My first--my last----I kinda forget.

 

 

It was more than a sensual fling

Couldn't be--but it was---that's the thing.

A lifetime and many miles apart

Yet you managed to capture my heart.

Don't know when that plan of never

Turned into some kind of forever

But it did-----Just because

And we liked how it was.

 

 

 

What do I do now that you're gone

I can't just erase and move on

But somehow there's no choice

So I hold on to your voice

And save your words in my mail

just in case old memories fail.

 

I never got a real goodbye

And I miss you, but I will not cry

That isn't what you'd want to see

Life stages--changes, meant to be.

There's a hole in my heart, but I'm standing strong

Anything less would be all wrong

 

 

 

Yes, I fell more than a little in love

What began as a nudge became a shove

Knew I could love you if I just let myself

You always stood apart from everyone else

So you you gave me permission to love you

To caress your very soul

And the part of heart you  gave to me

made my broken spirit whole.

 

Yes, I was more than a little in love.