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 Oct 2014 Caroline
Kevin T Norman
Try
I tried to give you the absolute best in this world.
To show you the beauty in the darkness
and pretend that we were in the light.
But I quickly had to remember where we stood.
So along with our perfection there lied jagged edges.
Sharp points that still cut,
opening scars that never truly healed.
With showing you what was right in this world
I also showed you what was wrong.
I'm sorry I was both.
 Apr 2014 Caroline
Kevin T Norman
My heart is captured.

And for once,

you don't have it.
 Apr 2014 Caroline
Jack
Why do I have hands?

Why do I have hands,
to touch and to feel
to mold clay into wonderful shapes
to paint smiling faces on canvas,
only to reach and find that I can’t?

Why do I have eyes,
to see the wonders of the day
to close so that I may dream
to send messages of hope with their expressiveness,
only to cry these tears that blur my vision?

Why do I have a mind,
to think and learn
to feel and offer insight
to construct ideas in flowing scenes,
only to imagine what the fear must feel like?

Why do I have a heart,
to live and to breathe
to love endlessly
to feel emotions,
only to break, because you are gone?

Why do I have hands,
when I cannot hold you?
 Apr 2014 Caroline
Jack
When my heart holds the pen,
you are my poetry
you look like
you'd like
me
believe me,
I know my place.
paint my face
look behind me
just in case
play the part
Strange;
smart
side salad and a heart
deviate
secret date
guess again
**** and then
never sorry
friends worry
deeper
still a keeper
drinking pace
pointless race
sleep and then
burrow again
private head case
busy saving face
I'll have a whiskey and soda, thanks.
stream of consciousness
 Apr 2014 Caroline
Kevin T Norman
Talk to the hand!*
drunk, slurry lines.

Tired, cracked, awkward straight.
About once or twice a week the jokes get old.

But I am not alone.
I learned one thing.

In the middle of the night they too are all over the place.

Which is like a religion to me.
We could stay in this room for hours
Talking about everything and nothing
We could watch the stream and
forget our lives
Like we had forever to spend together
We could stop thinking about
what is to come
And relish in every moment before

We are masters of being in love -
But we will never be good at goodbyes.
 Apr 2014 Caroline
K Balachandran
He undressed
her seductive
     mind.
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