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rachel-patterson
American Some teenager for the time being. I aspire to a life of obscurity, which none will remember long past my death.
It's these wintry nights That hit me the hardest, Frozen under blankets With love at its farthest. I sleep in the day, Ignore the fact that I'm wasting away Any chance I had. Even in summer heat, Even in autumnal glow, Even in spring sheets, It's winter's willful woes.
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Apr 10, 2012
Apr 10, 2012 at 10:52 PM UTC
Tendersick
It's the way you act, It's the way you are, The way you cheapen Even the deepest scars, The way you demand, And the way you deplore That has me drifting Away evermore.
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Apr 10, 2012
Apr 10, 2012 at 10:45 PM UTC
A Note, Never Scrawled Nor Given
Don't you flummox me I'm no lummox No lame ox You tell me right now What you decided Before you even met me. This was no three second conspiracy This was you taking breaths just to breathe No thought of tsunami or the worst that's upon me Just silver gilded lilies and cream.
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Dec 4, 2011
Dec 4, 2011 at 11:57 PM UTC
Pasture, Past You're
Crack my ribs, ************ Just crack them I don't need ties to shape To order To feeling fine When they're gone, I might open up. Funny how we grow in a cage for our own protection. Funny how that seems heartless. Funny how **** you I'm fine. If they pierce my heart I'll know what I was really made of.
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Nov 18, 2011
Nov 18, 2011 at 12:55 AM UTC
A Natural Shape
All I could do Was stare at my shoes And spend the spoken word On petty pithy plights Undressed in moonlight Whilst you wielded a sword Tradition would have me win Though speech is a hollow thing This I knew before Slashes, feints and rips From my eyes to my hips My legs safe to carry your war
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Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010 at 7:32 PM UTC
Victorian Pens
Lost, though the lake at my side Could not be any more familiar It's this vantage New shipments of sunlight Swim to me Cars rocking along, they haven't seen My screams I'm lost, I'm lost Someone bring me home I'll never return to Germantown
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Aug 3, 2010
Aug 3, 2010 at 2:41 PM UTC
Five Hours
In the winter If I see a butterfly I might shiver And think of you all night If it lands on the snow Brilliance on white I might decide to go And think of you all night I might box a smile up And send it far away In the morning my coffee cup Can't banish your memory Will you stay, stay, stay Or leave, go, gone? You don't say, say, say You're through with the sun If it ***** its fragile wings Directly into flight I might cast into a cringe And think of you all night When it cuts through the freeze Harbinger of light I will fall to my knees And think of you all night
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Aug 3, 2010
Aug 3, 2010 at 5:39 AM UTC
[You] All Night
Jackie has yet to learn Quite as much as he believes And I thought I could burn Until the leaves matched with me
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Aug 3, 2010
Aug 3, 2010 at 5:30 AM UTC
Flames In Flames