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Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
Cry
somebody
pour  me a drink
pour me a life
pour me a lie
somebody
tell me
it’s okay to cry.
Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
We still have
a small chance
a window, if you will
to be
the kind of family
we always wanted
to be
that we should be
but the clock
is ticking
and ticking
and ticking
so loudly
it is beginning  to silence
the decent and real
tiny parts of me
Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
I am looking for you
seems like
I am looking through you
where did you go?
Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
we flit around
like  butterflies
feelings
like circles of smoke
disappear upon touch
emotions
like breath on a freezing morning
visible but unwelcome
we flit around
from table to table
words
like confetti at a wedding
abundant but never heard.
Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
so
this is what a final Goodbye  feels like
the knowledge that there will be
no
right of reply
no
thinking it over tomorrow
and deciding we were wrong
no
we said too much
no
let’s keep in touch
no
lets fume for a week
and have coffee next Friday
no
let’s talk it out again
and say sorry for playing games
this
is the game
that
was the game
we lost
no
chance to regain
you are gone
from this earth
so
this is what a final goodbye feels like.
  Nov 2024 Frances Raeburn
Random Guy
i just wanted you to know
that I've been reading your poems
your stories
your heart
and I too
bleed for these words
like you
and I hope
you read mine too
when your heart
seek for words
Frances Raeburn Oct 2024
If
There is a man in my life
says he knows who I am
even knows my name
calls me by it everyday
how strange
I don’t know his name
although
I might have
maybe even would have
probably could have
if………
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