2019 Poetry

Delta

January 9 Love changes usIt’s becoming and believingBetrothed againTo walk aside andKnow the path isNot your ownNot yours aloneBut a path you chooseFor your Love to roamAnd hope for loveTo find a homeWherefore you’re lostBefore you changeAnd find your wayTo somewhere newTransformed to whoYou’ve been all along.

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The Mask

January 9 Tom Stoppard says love is“The mask slipped from the face”As if the masks he wears isn’t theKey to knowing my Love. You must know his rolesAnd love his masksAs much as his faceTo love my Love. The mask sometimes slipsOn accident, to anyoneIntimate or notOff the face of my Love. But the way…

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Abracadabra

January 5 I can’t see the wiresThat levitate the girlAs she risesWith smoke beginning to swirlThere’s no reflection on the ceilingA mirror’s telltale signMy eyes on the cardsWhen you flip and find mineYet I’m sure and I’d swearThis is all just false magicPretending, a fantasy,Some wrinkle in the fabricYou're a charmer, a magicianPerformer in top…

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Quote: His Words

January 5th Titans We can be titans if just for one day.Sit at my table and let me explainit’s not in the wine or the foodor the taste but in the desireto transcend this placewhere all that we are is measured and meekwhen just one kiss can make us complete.

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infatuation

January 4 InfatuationA temporary sensationFull of elationCausing perspirationAnd dislocutionOf time and spaceAt every sightingAnd every thoughtOf the object ofInfatuation. What supposed to be temporaryContinues eternallyWhen I considerMy infatuation.

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Hide and Seek

January 4 Seek until you find, he says.You’re never “it.”So you try to hide,but then you findWhat no one ever findsIn a place you already lookedWhen you’re looking for a hiding place.What you find surprises youChanges youRearranges you.So again you try to hide.Instead you findmore that’s rightIn all that’s wrong.And you can’t stop findingBecause your…

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I believe

January 2 Sometimes I forget myselfAnd just for a momentThis isn’t doomedI’m as good as you sayI deserve happinessShe won’t wake up,Realize her mistakeAnd come home.You won’t wake upRealize my faultsAnd walk away.When I talk to youI believe

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I want to try

January 2 I’ll never replace what you’ve lostNever heal the scarsOr fill the missing piecesI’ll never fix everything that’s brokenBut I want to try. And I know you’ll find something newGrow in ways you never hopedFind strengths you never imaginedI’ll watch you fix the broken partsAnd I want to try. It’s not the right time…

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