Unafraid

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There was a time, not long since, when this bed
Was where love, dreams and promises were made.
Now, as nights pass into virulent days,
And I get into cold sheets, I‘m afraid.

Your weight was my anchor to what we had;
But love has sunk into this large, cold bed;
It drowned, somewhere within, as you left it –
And I could save just memories instead.

I can’t even catch your smell in these sheets;
I wish you had loved enough and had stayed;
But you thought that love brings you happiness,
So, fled where you think you’ll stay unafraid.

I’m Back

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I’m Back

Where intimacy was a lie,

Where promises are broken,

Where love will always deny,

Where cruel words are spoken,

Where memories bring only pain,

Where hope lived but does not now,

Where hunger comes to rule again,

Where strangers ask who and why and how,

Where words, like forever, fail,

Where letters of feelings are burnt,

Where rosy cheeks grow cold and pale,

Where lessons of sorrow are learnt,

Where holding hands and drying tears

Are forgotten by unhappy hearts,

Where loving looks become fears

Where from all that mattered departs.

“As the Sun Wakes”

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As the sun wakes,
Thunder and lightning
Blanket his face
And shut his shining.

Might as well!
This day will be the same:
Where I suffer our love –
And you forget my name.