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To me there was only ever you!
Odd KenOdd Ken I knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
Odd KenOdd Ken Love is a job doer and a man slayer. Both equally efficient, until the taste of it is most felt on the cold side of the ribs.
Odd KenOdd Ken There’s not much I know about forgetting. By which I mean I can hear her name from a distance; and it still breathes cold in my chest.
Odd KenOdd Ken Respect pain. Every heartfelt word is first born from sadness.
Odd KenOdd Ken I’m a drunk poet; and I guess maybe I sipped too much of what I couldn’t buy of her.
Odd KenOdd Ken I held my breath underwater and felt surrender in my lungs; maybe this too counts as love.
Odd KenOdd Ken And when the cold comes, I swear I can feel her in my bones.
Odd KenOdd Ken Today I can see the cracks on the wall they’re visible; but I can tell they are finding their way to soil, And so am I.
Odd KenOdd Ken Maybe water is not entirely lost when soaked into sand. Maybe it finds a better resting place to call home; and I hope she did too.
Odd KenOdd Ken All through the depression, I was the soft toy in the hands of a baby with sharp teeth.
Odd KenOdd Ken After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
Odd KenOdd Ken It is my dying wish to travel around the world; to feel this hurt in a slightly different way!
Odd KenOdd Ken Sometimes even in pain we smile to the world until we think we’re dying.
Odd KenOdd Ken The broken worlds we hide inside; that’s how we start to die!
Odd KenOdd Ken Most days missing her is my only choice between death and dying.
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