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The wanderlust has got me now
The wanderlust has got me now / It is a caged animal in my heart / Always fighting for a way out
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Chasing a Runaway Thought....
My love, your eyes are nothing like the sun, / your long lasting gaze is dull and dazed, / as for intelligence; you possess none
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I know no other way.
I love you relentlessly. / I love you like the waves love the shore. / I love you ferociously
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Wanton
I want to slip your skin over mine, / To pull your edges together / Like I do my coat on a frozen day.
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my own little way
I don't often know how to act, / or how to speak when I am around you / I sit and wait for some contact
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One Last Time For You
*This is a "found poem" the lines are from poems ranging from 13th century to the 20th century* / I have fears that I may cease to be, / And that I shall never look upon thee more.
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Contradictions
Darling you constantly bewilder me, / you are clever but full of stupidity, / you have charm but are never really charming,
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I keep you.
I keep you as the background on my phone. / I don't exactly know why, / You're not beautiful, you don't inspire me, you don't focus me.
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I Will Take Love
Love is all there is: it nurtures the weak, / and will feed the starving. it warms the soul, / emboldens and uninhibits the meek,
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