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Beloved
Inside me
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While you grew and grew
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I never knew
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Your heart was broken
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And that there was one
2m
Mar 9, 2015
Aimee
Transfixed, I watch the worlds
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In your eyes transform
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From blue to brown to green
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From sea to
1m
Mar 8, 2015
If I could recreate reality
If I could recreate reality
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I'd soften the finality
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Of your forced farewell.
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I'd make it so /
2m
Mar 8, 2015
Stars/scars
I am waiting for the stars to lead me
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Away from this late night double-feature
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But I just can't
2m
Apr 28, 2012
Wailing
That night in the streets of my city
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When I was alone
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He appeared to me in a whispered memory /
1m
Mar 14, 2012
Storms (a Haiku)
Storms will come and go
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Sometimes they will heal the earth
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Sometimes they'll destroy
1m
Mar 13, 2012
I wrote a poem for you
I wrote a poem for you
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The day before I met you
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When I didn’t yet know a soul can be shipwrecked
2m
Mar 12, 2012
A lucid doodle
With a tracing of my dreams
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I’ll draw for you
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In the shapes of streams
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And the sounds of seas
1m
Feb 19, 2012
I am not depressed
I am not depressed
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I’m just deflated
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Out of style and over-dressed
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At second-best, I’m overrat
2m
Nov 3, 2011
Stunted
I wanted you to sit
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On a park bench
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In the middle of the city
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And watch me sail away in the sk
2m
Mar 18, 2011
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