Category: Poems

Incomplete

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Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
Have always known, know that we can’t escape
Yet can’t accept. One side will have to go.

Familiar Ghosts

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I can’t sleep.

Those I lost,

Those I will lose,

Come to me,

For company,

Or to confuse.

My eyes, swollen with sick

And love,

Cannot shut;

And I keep thinking,

If…But…

Visions from the past

Haunt me,

Like drapes in the wind.

I smile to see

Familiar ghosts

Wait,

In some dust;

And I must know

Insomnia and fear

Are ghosts, too.

An Old Friend

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Death feels like the end
But as long as I remember you
There is no end to you
You live on
Even if you didn’t survive.
You burn through my existence
With fiery feet of love.
I burn. I weep to ease some pain.
It bursts sometimes
Like a dam over fire.
But it doesn’t extinguish.
So the eyes become
Weapon or medicine.
The heart is full.
Death, lift your veil.
Kiss me and say
We’ll meet again.