In the end the salt calls the ocean home; and I guess this is why drowning has always been a part of loving you.
ODD KENIf ever the fall is the ground, someone tell her I’m this close to soil, and I can feel it!
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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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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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I knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
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The broken worlds we hide inside; that’s how we start to die!
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I’m a drunk poet; and I guess maybe I sipped too much of what I couldn’t buy of her.
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I can feel the dust of her skin in my skin; and I think maybe that means these bones of mine have grown weary of crying too.
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Like a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
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I guess you’re the bee and the stings all at once; By which I mean you’re the reason I wrap these tired bones around every aching thing.
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Please the night’s cold, not her name again!
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When I say I love you, I mean something raw something below the surface of all waters; something almost too naked and true!
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No one thing stays the same after a goodbye.
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Respect pain. Every heartfelt word is first born from sadness.
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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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All through the depression, I was the soft toy in the hands of a baby with sharp teeth.
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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.
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