Daniel
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behind goodbye
when you told me you were going away i can’t remember if i wished you’d stay but i recall seeing words in your eyes now trapped forever behind “goodbye” it’s raining today, i’m safe inside away from the crowd, with a place to hide the silence reminds me of that day i wonder what you…
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in time
a white dress wrapped around someone else’s bride right words that never escaped from inside deep feelings that are too wrong to confess in time you’ll grow to love her less hold the invitation like your other choice what might have been if love had a voice too good of a friend not to be…
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bounty
a few more wishes roll in with the tide like lava the earth can’t keep inside i gather it up and dig holes to hide these memories of a darker pride i was walking a cluttered ocean floor weighted with treasure but looking for more i kicked my feet finally rising for air stopped short…
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fallen leaves
hidden in the winter woods bare and swaying in the breeze she looks down upon the ground as if to beckon fallen leaves sweetly shy she shivers blushes red with every dawn till her lover comes with spring to slip her new dress on
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second story
in the spring another fall for the stubborn leaves that cling to the now new budding branches life pushes death out of the way fluttering, twisting, fighting bearing it’s own memory these lonely strangers fall once blessed with such a view they gather in corners and whisper tall tales from the elusive past they wander…
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the time it takes
i tell myself lies in the light of every day when I say that this will go away in 4 months, in 1 afternoon in the time it takes to say ‘ I do ‘ i can’t tell a story without an ending i keep reading signals you aren’t sending but of course i will…