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85 · Aug 2020
Ambitious
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Every wound has a culprit
Every scar knows exactly who they are
You are mine
You hurt
You scarred
Deeply
Inside my heart
Then you moved
As I bled
And bled
Into the dead grey night
Eventually
I made it home
Staggering
Slowly
And lowly
Battle weary
And exhausted
Into
my newly
very well made
Empty
And now ridiculously
Ambitious
Bed.
84 · Jul 2022
That
Frances Raeburn Jul 2022
give me your love
the very best of you
I will inhale it
without care
for that is what I do.
84 · Jan 2023
Bruise
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
Everybody gets bruised
some of us
hide it
some of us
shout it
either way
everybody gets bruised
84 · Jan 2022
Fade
Frances Raeburn Jan 2022
Night fades into
morning
Life fades into
yawning
84 · Sep 2021
Saturday Morn
Frances Raeburn Sep 2021
It’s just another Saturday morn
fading into Sunday
slipping into Monday
cruising into Tuesday
delving into Wednesday
diving into Thursday
dying into Friday
crying into Saturday
It’s just another Saturday mom
84 · Jun 2021
Stain
Frances Raeburn Jun 2021
You have left a stain
on my soul
and my home
like blood
it seeps endlessly
effortlessly
freely
into my bones
84 · Mar 2022
Honestly
Frances Raeburn Mar 2022
In all honesty
so far
in my life
I have at least
spoken
two billion words
that were
untrue
how about you?
84 · Apr 2021
She
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
She
She knows all there is to know
and just a little bit more
and yet
she goes to bed
tries to sleep
then realises
she knows
to much awful
to sleep
84 · Oct 2020
Anywhere
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
Have you seen me recently?
Have you seen me anywhere?
Just can’t seem to find myself
Anywhere
Listen, no pressure
no problem
But
if you happen to see me
anywhere
anytime
please call
Seriously
you have my number
Just call
Honestly
I am seriously looking
for me
84 · Dec 2021
Words unsaid
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
Night is closing in
I see that
yet I have ten thousand words sill
inside my head
what do I do with them?
83 · Dec 2021
catch
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
I have walked so many miles
for your smile
I just need to catch my breath
now
for a little while
83 · Sep 2020
Endless
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
The thing with these days
is that too many people
have too much to say
and they say it
Endlessly
Exhaustingly
Inexcusably
repeatedly
every
******
frigging
single
day.
83 · Jul 2022
I
Frances Raeburn Jul 2022
I
I am not your
beautiful
anymore
83 · Sep 2023
Morning
Frances Raeburn Sep 2023
It’s just another morning
that looks a lot
like yesterday.
83 · Nov 2023
Swimming
Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
somewhere in the the depths of this
I saw myself
drowning in pain
it was a distant and silent view
somewhere lost in tomorrow
I saw myself
desperately reaching for the surface
it was exhausting and harrow
somewhere in the shadow.of this
I see myself
swimming  desperately swimming
desperately searching for the shore
83 · Oct 2020
Again
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
If I could write the word
To make you fall in love with me
again
I would write it today
And tomorrow
Again
I would scream it from the treetops
Scrawl it on the walls
Again
If I could write the word
I’d be free as a bird
today
If I could write the word
to make you fall in love
With me .........again......
83 · Nov 2020
Amusement
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
Boys and girls
are rushing
way too soon
into men and women
who can’t consume
the reality
that this world was
not made purely
and solely
for
their amusement
83 · Sep 2023
Son
Frances Raeburn Sep 2023
Son
I used to wake up
slightly alive
now I wake up
go straight
to your cot
and silence both our cries
83 · May 2023
Children
Frances Raeburn May 2023
How did I get so lucky
what in the world did  
I do
to have such beautiful humans  
love me
as you do.
83 · Nov 2021
Glance
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
I am drowning in your
laughter
saturated by your
love
amazed by your joie de vivre
enchanted by your
dance
impressed by your last
stance
weakened
by your glance
83 · Nov 2023
Reign
Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
When you reigned
you rained tears upon my cheek
fears I could not speak
my mascara
always streaked
83 · Jan 2023
Remember
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
I don’t love all of you
all of the time
who
in all honesty could
but sometimes
in our worst of times
I remember
and the remember loves
you still
82 · Sep 2023
John
Frances Raeburn Sep 2023
After all these years
I honestly couldn’t bear
to celebrate
my wedding anniversary
with anybody else
but you!
82 · Apr 2021
Voice
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
Your voice
I don’t hear
Your breath
is not clear
Your love
no longer dear
82 · Nov 2021
Rather
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
I would rather wait
for you
all night long
than
take the first man home
82 · Feb 2022
Too
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
Too
Love clipped me
didn’t **** me
but God……
love came right up in my face
and asked way too much
of me
82 · May 7
family
there are
seven wonders of the world
and I am sitting here
eating dinner
trading words
passing time
with three of them.
82 · Feb 2022
Best
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
Of all the little things
you have given me
the myriad of kindness
you have shown me
well, this
this is the best.
82 · Nov 2023
Suspect
Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
I will leave my words here now
scattered upon the floor
as I have
so many times before
gather them or discard them
reject them or suspect them
scorn them or pity them
love them or lose them
or simply dismiss them
as you have done
so many times before
82 · Feb 2022
Bad
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
Bad
Don’t worry
I’ve gathered up all  your bad bits
they were scattered across the floor
I liked that you walked away
And never looked back
did you already know
I would,d keep them
temporarily
in my heart
81 · Mar 2022
Ring
Frances Raeburn Mar 2022
Excuse me
Hello
I think this is yours
and I think
you dropped it
very conveniently
the very  first time
we said
Hello
81 · Jul 2022
Pain
Frances Raeburn Jul 2022
Excuse me
you dropped this
upon the subway floor
a whole world of pain
do you want it
or will I close the door?
81 · Apr 2022
Devine
Frances Raeburn Apr 2022
Take my nothing
and turn it into wine
then we can drink all night
hands in heart
from a cup
more or less
devine.
81 · Mar 2022
Dropped
Frances Raeburn Mar 2022
Hello!
Hello!
Hello Miss
hang on
Hello Miss
hang on
Sorry
so sorry
hang on
I think you dropped this
as you disembarked the train
I usually wouldn’t have bothered
except
I think it might be your
heart.
81 · Nov 2021
Real
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
Know this
if you know nothing
I was always
on the right side
of real
81 · May 2022
Essex
Frances Raeburn May 2022
the conversation around here
is a long time dead
no one mourned it’s passing
81 · Jan 2021
Deny
Frances Raeburn Jan 2021
I am offering my hand
and even now
I know it is not enough
to save us
but still
I am offering my hand
reach out
know this
I will lose it
before
I will deny this
81 · Dec 2021
Talking
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
I think you know me
more than I know me
so I’m going to let you
do all the talking
81 · Jan 2023
Leave
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
Leave all of your love
strewn. carelessly
across the floor
anything less
you know
I would abhor
81 · Jan 2022
Hyjack
Frances Raeburn Jan 2022
I am so bored with being
a pedestrian
tomorrow
I am going to jump on your bike
or hyjack your
car
80 · Oct 2023
Strange
Frances Raeburn Oct 2023
how strange
between us now
that silence
shouts
80 · Nov 2020
Us
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
Us
Everything faded
info shades of blue and grey
like the song
somehow we went wrong
everything faded
we forgot
the people who had
made us.
us
80 · Jul 2022
Sister
Frances Raeburn Jul 2022
and then
yet again
as usual
it was
just us
80 · May 2021
Three
Frances Raeburn May 2021
Three words
John
Jack
Boo
Now that’s poetry!
80 · Sep 2023
Boo
Frances Raeburn Sep 2023
Boo
I watch my girl
claw herself upward
slowly and painfully
on the greased pole
of her dreams
while others
take the stairs.
80 · Aug 2020
Are
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Are
There are seven wonders of the world
And yet
Three of them are sitting here
Right here
Right now
Having dinner
At home
Alone
With me
Tonight
80 · Feb 2021
Burn
Frances Raeburn Feb 2021
There is a whole village
waiting for your return
and within that village
a whole family
praying that you burn
80 · Oct 2021
Know
Frances Raeburn Oct 2021
Please forgive me if
I know longer  
know
the right thing to say
80 · Nov 2021
Sorry
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
I’m sorry
that
I love
out loud
Are you?
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