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 KENThese sharp edges you left behind, they cut so deep; and I guess maybe I am just not dying enough.
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I’ve been quiet most of today. By which I mean I can see myself in the mirror; And believe me it is something hard to look at these days.
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I can sing love; only I’m afraid the lyrics might get shattered again.
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I’ve seen it, I know it too; love still dances in the fire after the rescue.
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Somedays depression is tender, as though hurting is just an art; and that maybe she didn’t break me more than enough!
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There’s a constant battle of me and healing; all of which still sits burning and intricately perplexed in ink.
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I knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
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I forget how our story started; but these days I’m finding the missing pieces behind every exhale, where I left the words standing with sore feet.
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In the end not every bleeding thing dies; at least, not like a paper plays in fire.
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And when the cold comes, I swear I can feel her in my bones.
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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.
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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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Pain is never too weak to leave the body still standing or laughing the same.
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What if love has always been the quench and the fire? or perhaps all we need to lose to find all we need to have?
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Like her name, some people are best left scrouged on the skin.
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No one thing stays the same after a goodbye.
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