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 Nov 2018 The Poet Tree
Virtuous
Dont complain

Of a wiltering garden

Full of weeds

If you never tended to

Or watered the seeds
 Oct 2018 The Poet Tree
larni
once upon a time
long ago
there was a you and me

i knew you once
and it was nice
silence was comfy
and we didnt have to try

i knew you once
long ago
you shared your secrets
and i shared mine

i knew you once
long ago
but where did you go...?
argh, i miss you.
 Oct 2018 The Poet Tree
pluto
you wake up
his hair is spilled across the pillow,
the sun slants across his cheekbone
and his breath is slow and even.
he smells like an open field
and his body is wrapped around yours
so he keeps you warm.
you think,
there is no moment better than this,
that he is too perfect to exist.
but you wake up gasping,
skin soaked in sweat.
you lie there for a long time,
in your completely empty bed.
I love him
I tell myself
I know that
We will be together forever
I don’t believe that
We could be separated
My thoughts tell me that
He’s the love of my life
Sometimes my heart lies and says
I could live an eternity
Without him
Like my friends say
“We’re perfect for each other”
And you can’t tell me
He’s not the one.

Now read from bottom to top.
There you joked, striking me.
Fun and joy,
it overwhelmed me.
I joked back, striking too.
Word to Word we played and danced.
Time drew, as we pushed and pulled,
burned and pranced.
The flames danced. A dangerous one, warm to us and us alone,
We went on and on.
Midnight came, yet we still played.
Tired and full of bliss,
we slept at a distance ,
Falling in each other modern arms.
The norm was not the norm with us,
We where different,
A dangerous different.
But did we care?
NO!
And so we embraced in our puzzled form,
which only us could see and feel.
Dumb and dull, words outside our ring rang,
Yet did we answer?
No!
... Or was it yes?
Did not matter, I was lost,
Our words no longer clashed and pushed,
No force was spoken or seen,
Even in our puzzled form.
The norm had struck and now was seen.
Our circle clasped, the flame disburse.
It's heat lingered and stuck.
Dull and hurt, I now grasped,
blinded by all.
Striking nothing,
I fell deep,
becoming one with the abyss.
Black.
Void.
Senseless.
Deeper and Deeper I fell.
The lingering flame clawed and struck,
Reaping me slow till nothing stuck.

It was a summer I recalled, in between my first and second,
Where the flame of youth had burned out.
And now with my beaten senses dull like norm,
The metal dug itself at the back of my mind.
A final swig of societies trust and a sharp known grasp of metal,
The lingering flame had finally died out.
A mans first fall to the despair known as heartbreak. The construction of this road off the ashes of his romance.

— The End —