Sometimes I am caught between poetry and prose, like two lovers I can’t decide between. Prose says to me, let’s build something long and lasting. Poetry takes me by the hand, and whispers, come with me, let’s get lost for awhile.
LANG LEAVIt was a kind love, a selfless love. I was a dreamer, and you were a traveler. We met at the crossroads. I saw love in your smile, and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch, and I was already home.
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He swept in like a tsunami, wave after wave, and I didn’t stand a chance. All those warnings, all the things they tried to prepare me for-lost in an instant-to the enormity of what I felt.
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Take me someplace where I can feel something-I want to give away my heart. Tell me his name so I can know love when it speaks to me. Give me someone I can write about.
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When words run dry, he does not try, nor do I. We are on par. He just is, I just am and we just are.
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How much love is a person capable of giving? I thought I knew the answer until I met you.
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We had no ending, no said goodbye. For all my life, I’ll wonder why.
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I’m a stranger in my own life.
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How many people have we known all our lives and never once loved. How many people have we loved and never known.
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I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.
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But it was now time for her to go away-to find someone who could show her what happiness was.
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I was there in your forgetting, until I was forgot.
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I am already nostalgic for what we have, even with you still here.
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That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.
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I build my walls from the mess they leave.
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Yes, I think it is entirely possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met. Physicality is an expression of intimacy- not an indication of it.
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I look for you, the way I was taught to look both ways when crossing the road. Uptight and wary, bracing myself for something I know could break me.
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