my stuff
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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…
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whatever’s next
he found her from the footprints in the snow she ran away but she had nowhere to go and no lie could be a fitting mask one look and he didn’t have to ask with an arm around her shoulder he stayed there in the silence she knew that he cared she cried until the…
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if we kissed
if we kissed would you slap my face? would a kiss be out of place? if i loved you and told you so would you fold your arms and tell me no like a parent with a little boy pointing to an expensive toy would you tell me “surely someone else” “just leave this one…