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46 · Oct 2020
Tried
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
Know this
That I have tried
If you know nothing ever again
In your whole life
Believe this
Know this
That
I have honestly
desperately
tried
46 · Oct 2020
Cloud
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
Why is nobody wandering
Lonely as a cloud
In my world
Why is about guts and pain and strain
Why are there no host of golden daffodils
Hovering
Just beneath my cloud?
46 · Jul 2020
Listen
Frances Raeburn Jul 2020
I think I can walk on water
I’m not Moses
I know
But still
Listen
I think I can walk on water
Fair enough
I haven’t tried yet
But still
Something tells me
That at a push
I think
I
could probably
Walk on water
46 · Sep 2020
Daylight
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
Daylight fights to surrender
all of it’s precious light
Nighttime slowly wins
overcoming with all it’s might
daylight has to spend
each and every night
fighting to wake the world up
so we can rise and take flight
46 · Nov 2020
Tomorrow (2)
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
I refuse to allow
Yesterday
To stand in front of me
Today
And tell me
Who I should be
Tomorrow
46 · Dec 2020
Don’t
Frances Raeburn Dec 2020
Don’t try to save me
in truth
I’m sinking
faster than none
Don’t try to raise me
in truth
I’m screaming louder
than fun
spoiling your fun
Don’t try to reach me
In truth
We’re trying
Too hard
in truth
don’t try to save me
in truth
our time is
undeniably
undefinable
just about
heartbreakingly
done .
46 · Apr 2021
Honestly
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
Everything
I have ever said
Believe me
in all truth
I honestly
have
over said
to everyone else
45 · Sep 2020
If (2)
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
If I had one wish
It would be that someone
someday
could really see me
feel me
touch me
hear me
If I had one wish
It would be that someone
someday
Could really know me
love me
hold me
just once
for once
If I had one wish
It would be that...........
45 · Feb 11
Probably
you left
and then
I left
there was probably
only
five minutes
anger between
us
45 · 5d
Hear
I ask you to hear me
you say you do
and I believe you try
but you listen
with light ears
so the weight of my words
don’t keep you awake
all night.
45 · Nov 2020
Dance 2
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
Well
Thank you for asking
I would like to dance
Very much decoy
Lead on
sweet boy
45 · 16h
Life
I don’t know
whose life
I am living here
but if you ever come across her
do me a favour
please tell her
to call me
I would so like to
give it back to her.
44 · 5d
Why
Why
this
is a beautiful life
and my bit in it
is divine
and way more than
I deserve
in any currency
so why can I not see me
and life
from the
outside
and those who are looking in?
44 · Oct 2020
Light
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
Before the sun rises
You show me the
Light
44 · Sep 2020
Lies
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
There are two truths
Mine and
Yours
And in between
There are years and years of
Lies
44 · Sep 2020
Scars
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
I know your scars
And you know mine
We trace them in the dark
and celebrate
each mark
44 · 16h
Point
no no no
I hear you
I am
listening
trust me
I am listening
intensely
but
forgive me for asking
before we both die of boredom
what frigging point
are you trying to make?
44 · Oct 2020
Probably
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
I am more than this
and I think that
probably
You are
Too
44 · Oct 2020
Daughter
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
You are fragrant
Because you are young
You walk through life
Like you belong
I want to stop you
Just for a beat
Tell you
The devil
Hovers
Beneath
44 · Oct 2020
Enough
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
If I say nothing
and you say nothing
and we just  skim the outskirts of our
life
if we rise to a sun
we’re not brave enough to own
and we dance to a tune
we’ll never own
if we do it everyday
it might just be okay
if we dance long enough
if we dance
if we dance
convincingly
outrageously  
it may be
Yes it may be
maybe
It may be
just about
enough
44 · 15h
Somewhere
You are
I am
some
where
in between
it
became
no mans
land,
43 · Sep 2020
Defy
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
I will lay everything I try to be
Side by side
With everything you pretend to be
And defy anyone
to know the difference
43 · Sep 2020
Kiss
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
Our land is rich in tears
cried from sorrow filled eyes
Our land is saturated in deep red blood
spilled for human lies
and battle cries
not worth the lies
Our land is sinking deeper
and deeper
into the abyss
Seduced and hypnotised
by the serpent’s gentle kiss
43 · Aug 2020
We two
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
I know you said it didn’t matter
And I know I said that too
I know in grown up lives
It shouldn’t matter
But somehow that’s not true
I know you said we’d laugh about it
I think I said that too
So why can’t we raise a smile
as we sit here
Just we two?
43 · Dec 2020
Life
Frances Raeburn Dec 2020
Life won’t make you right
If anything
it will lead you
barefoot and ******
into a day
you are not yet ready to live
It won’t forgive
or allow any give
It will take you by the hand
then suddenly let go
disrupt the land
destroy your plan
Life won’t make you right
or alert you to the fight
It will push you
and push you
and keep pushing
until eventually
reluctantly
unsteadily
you take flight
fly well
fly straight
fly light.
43 · Feb 15
Less
Yes , okay
I failed you
and everyone
we ever knew
according to you
yes, okay
I failed you
does that make me
less than you
or just a little more
dishonesty honest
than everyone
we ever knew
including you?
43 · Aug 2020
Boo
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Boo
I knew a girl who played a pink violin
So beautifully
That the world fell
Into time
with her uneven  tune
I knew a girl who played a pink violin
So violently
That the world stood still
And changed their mind
I knew a girl who played a pink violin
So silently
That the whole world
listened
heard unintentionally
Applauded gently
then quietly
peacefully
blissfully
Closed their eyes
And
universally
Fell into a
Very
Easy
Deep
And beautiful
Sleep
42 · Aug 2020
Someone else
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
If I was someone else
I would love you
Endlessly
And perfectly
Forever
Because you deserve
Nothing less
Than
Someone else
42 · Aug 2020
Maybe 2
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Clarity
Maybe just another word for
Shame
Reality
Maybe just another word for
Pain
42 · Sep 2020
Diluted
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
I have been diluted by life
I started out strong and concentrated
But bit by bit
I became a weird faint colour
of the paint I used to be
Okay for decoration
for year or two
But if you want longevity
Or consistency
Or value for money
Then honestly
I’m probably not the paint for you
42 · Feb 19
Walk
google
something interesting to say
or
here’s an idea
just walk
the **** away!
42 · Oct 2020
Honest yet....
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
My words are much too big
no one will receive them
so they bounce around the room
I certainly can’t retrieve them
so we sit and smile
eat cake
have tea
Ignore them
But they are out there now
*******
my big words
bouncing around
like mad things
Lovely
honest yet
Ignored
41 · Jul 2020
Square
Frances Raeburn Jul 2020
I was always a bit square
Desperately trying to fit into
A very round circle
I am still pushing
Seems like forever
Little square me
pushing
Exhausted
Into this very big
Too round
circle of life.
41 · Apr 2021
Home
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
Said he would build me
an honest home
and in fairness
he did
41 · Oct 2020
Sister
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
You will always be
the best  piece
in our three piece
jigsaw family
41 · Sep 2020
Truth (1)
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
I will give you truth
because I can
It is a light
grey
white
silvery
beautiful
pearl like
pure
precious
rare
colour
Don’t make it black
Or I will take it back.
41 · Feb 15
Yes
Yes
you don’t need to ask
the answer is
yes
but what the ****
ask it
anyway!
41 · Oct 2020
Light(2)
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
I am light
I think I was born this way
I’ve tried the dark
embraced the pain
but it doesn’t sit easy in my brain
I  am light
almost breezy
I want  easy
I am light
I think I was
Probably
born this way
41 · Sep 2020
Cold 2
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
If there is anything here at all
You want
Or desire
Take it
I am open
Like a war wound
On the battle floor
No one can reach
to save me
so I will lie here
forever
exposed
on this cold concrete floor
41 · Sep 2020
Child (2)
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
I don’t know the answer
I don’t know if I should
I know the world will wound you
like I knew it always would
I want to run ten feet before you
Clear the way
Slay the scrub
But I don’t know which path you’re taking
Would you tell me if you could
40 · Aug 2020
Deal
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
If this is tomorrow
I’ll buy a ticket
If what you’re selling is real
I’ll shake on that deal
40 · Oct 2020
Unafraid
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
I am not now
who  I used to be
that  girl has died
I am not now
who I want to be
that girl has tried
I live here
in between
who you are
and we are
I live in the shadow
in the shade
ashamed
Yet unafraid
40 · Sep 2020
Daylight (2)
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
Daylight
makes its entrance
through small familiar cracks
Today announces it’s arrival
uninvited
but loudly
none the less
Reality joins the chorus
banality holds up the back
Together they defeat me
I have no answer back
40 · Aug 2020
Difference
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
You don’t have to look like me
Or be like me
Or think like me
You don’t have to dance like me
Or laugh like me
Or cry like me
You don’t have to do anything at all like me
To love me
Or have me love you back
You just have to know
like me
that differences
They paper up the
Cracks
40 · Sep 2020
Delight
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
Every time you say goodnight
you take
Just another little
tiny bite
out of what could have been
and surely should have been
my total
and complete  
forever
hearts
Delight
40 · Sep 2020
Each
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
There are so many ways
to get it right
So how come we miss them
Each and  every
night?
40 · 7d
Can’t
I can’t apologise
for being me
but I can feel sorry
that you ever
ever ‘ ever fell in love
with me
I can do that
for you.
40 · Aug 2020
You
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
You
You are the song
I always wanted to sing
And the words
I could never quite begin
Late at night
Alone
amidst all this din
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