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jessica-l-gossett
A place that isn't Home. Just a woman with a dreadful yearning for that which I cannot have.
I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 8:34 PM UTC
If You Forget Me
Just a whisper. A simple breeze that passes from your Soft lips to my willing ear. A caress of a promise that erupts my skin in flame;  a cause to my heart's crecendo. To promise hope, such as a soft creed shall prove.             I await.
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Jan 29, 2016
Jan 29, 2016 at 10:43 PM UTC
I await
COME, quietly the night, as I lay riddled with perplexity and confounding notions. In all I have rendered useless, there is still an itch yearning TO be scratched. Like the beast at the door, or so I thought. Yes, I must have imagined the howl, calling ME. I howled to my best ability in return, no avail. What beast would call to THIS? I must lay to rest these evening daydreams. These late NIGHT machinations of my simple mind. To wake in the morning and bear in heart and mind that no beast is howling this name.
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Jan 29, 2016
Jan 29, 2016 at 10:40 PM UTC
The Howl
Be of my skin. On it, in it. Reveling the revelations of Three decades of me. Touch my soul underneath. Bare my flayed heart, press yours upon it. Add quickened pulse. Steam the windows, Drip with the salty sweat. Rhythmically dance to the slowest song. Feel as the heat causes lesser friction; As two glide, the sparks fire, higher rise. Ignite. Burning the slow burn. The release is deep, from the darkest inner core. Singing, singing. Gathering all, the soul rushes to infuse. Cataclysmic bliss. The world is amiss, momentarily, as the heart slams into its cage. Fighting to be free, slowly it becomes weary. Slow, slowly. The world is righted. Still yet the cage is quick with bows; bends. Eyes open to eyes. The world is there. You've been of my skin. You see me. Your eyes bury me. Eyes close. Mind slows. Heart full. Arms hold, entangled. Sleep.
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Jan 29, 2016
Jan 29, 2016 at 10:36 PM UTC
Tenderness
I have this box, it is beautiful. Covered in diamonds, sapphires in all hues, silver handles and golden latches. It's bones are made from compounded parts; thread-remnant from broken hearts, the leftover feathers from elation, the glass from being shattered. Glued together with the ache of both pain and yearning. It is beautiful on the outside, but inside is where I keep my broken things.
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Jan 24, 2016
Jan 24, 2016 at 10:20 PM UTC
Untitled
Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.
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Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 8:19 PM UTC
30 Cents, Two Transfers, Love