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Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
I lost myself
the minute and moment
I surrendered
my soul
to you
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
I am sorry
after this long time
you realized that
I am not  Cinderella
or a fairy tale
anywhere close to that
I am sorry
after this long time
You realized  
I am simply
just another
ordinarily girl
who  somehow
late in the night
haphazardly
lost
her
shoe
again!
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
I am more lost now
Than when you found
me
Lou
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
Lou
we laugh
the loudest
and fall the loudest
and hurt the loudest
and rise the loudest
of anyone I know
Lou
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Lou
There is nothing in this world
more precious
to me
No metal
No stone
than your voice
on the other end of the phone
Frances Raeburn Jan 2021
Just give a little
he said
dear god I’m trying
I said
just speak louder
he said
just look twice
I said
I’m dead
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
Leave all of your love
strewn carelessly
across the floor
anything else
I would abhor
Frances Raeburn Sep 2023
I am slow
to the table of love
I am always
a beat behind
beautiful
but less inclined.
Frances Raeburn Jul 2022
the girl is not not in love
she is just not  totally
in love in love
either.
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
I see your love
It stands starkly before me
I can’t reach your love
It hides hidden behind me.
Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
Love is amazing but
love is waking up the next day
and not feeling quite
so sure  about yourself.
Frances Raeburn Apr 2022
I love you
mostly
because of
who I am
when you hold my
hand.
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
I will not drop our love
I may not love our love
tonight
or want our love
tonight
or seek our love
tonight
or need our love
tonight
or know our love
tonight
or like our love
tonight
but still
I will not drop our love
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
I
seriously suspect
this is what love
is supposed to be
you and me
No questions
No answers
I seriously suspect
this is what love
was always meant to
be
If only
they knew
Frances Raeburn Oct 2021
I love you
Out
loud
Frances Raeburn Oct 2024
our love
which was once
an event
a waterfall
a crescendo
splendid enough that
people would queue
for hours
just to to see it
I get it
I would queue too
to see
our love
our love
is now just
a trickle
that no one
is interested enough
to get out of bed for
it’s just not
that special
anymore
in all honesty
it’s just not that interesting
to anyone
not even to
to you and me
anymore
Frances Raeburn Mar 2022
If I could send you
two thousand bouquets
or more
I surely would
instead
what I can send
is
one word
Love.
Frances Raeburn Oct 2023
You make
me
laugh
out loud
if thats not love
tell me
what is?
Frances Raeburn Jun 2023
I wonder how it feels
to know
I was always only and ever
in love
with you
Frances Raeburn Oct 2021
I will take this love
and I will run with it
as far as it will take me
as high as it will make me
I will take this love
and I will run with it
and I will never look back
for fear
reality will overtake me
Frances Raeburn Jun 2023
Let us leave our love here
where it began
where it was pure
where we were sure
that we knew better
let us leave our love here
where it is safe
and untainted
from the people
we have both
become,
Frances Raeburn Sep 2024
I see
you want me to applaud
your love
but
sadly I can’t
on this occasion
happily
I’m all clapped out
Frances Raeburn Jan 2021
I am
so in love. with myself
that
when you said you loved me
I thought
I was talking to
myself
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
I love that
You love me
And my family too
Makes life easier
And means
in the end
I won’t  have
to leave you
And us two
Frances Raeburn Jan 2022
I lost love today
was  sure I put in my pocket
before I left home
wrapped up and tight
saw it when I found my keys
smiling at me
reliable and bright
parked the car
and it was there
secure and steady
always made me heady
had it thru the day
because I was light
and a little gay
came back home without a care
now I can’t find it anywhere
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
Your words pour over me like silk
smooth
easy
gentle to the touch
no matter they may be untrue
right here
right now
they flow like music
heavy intoxicating musk
smoldering like  lust
I am living
in a life of luxury
I don’t recognise
anymore.
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
I can leave
that’s the easy bit
I can walk away
but can you
in your madness
ever stay away?
Frances Raeburn Oct 2021
You make me laugh
when I’don’t want to laugh
you make me cry
when I don’t want to cry
you make me listen
when I don’t want to hear
you make it clear
when you’re not even here
you make it right
in the dead of the night
Man
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
Man
I am
totally
and
completely
in love
with
the man
you
used
to be
Frances Raeburn Sep 2023
Everyone says
in a New York Minute
I’ve been here forever
trust me
it takes
ten years!
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
I know I lost you
That’s true
I’m sorry
It’s  true
It’s Manhattan
you know.
the score!
Map
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
Map
It’s complicated
and I am too
there was a map here
yesterday
lost it
somehow
somewhere
Can’t find it
anywhere
Can you?
Frances Raeburn Mar 2024
when my heart bled words
I couldn’t voice
somehow you found them
in my garden or somewhere near
wherever I had dropped them
picked them up
and made sense of them
returned them to me
late night
in a song
I  had never heard before
until your voice made
perfect sense of me.
Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
When did those little boy arms
who depended so much on me
when did those little boy arms
become strong enough
to hold me
Frances Raeburn Feb 2024
of all the smiles
ever given to me
and there’s been a few
the best smile
was the one you gave to me
in ‘94
as you ran to me
arms outstretched
love unattached
straight into my arms
with your love for me
written all over
the man I knew
you would eventually be.
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
Love
is not a big enough
word
for this
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
We have such a journey
yet to go
We lost the map
years  ago
when you said
nothing matters
I didn’t know
you
meant me too.
you are halfway
into my heart
well done
it’s more than anyone
ever
has ever managed to do
and it’s a feeling
I could get used to
maybe !
Frances Raeburn Jan 2022
Maybe you found me
just to show me
how good I could be
or
to give me a reason
to not be
so much like me
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
You hang over me
Like a vague thought within a cloud
Like a word never said out loud
You hang over me
Envelop me
Devour me
Like a vague thought within
a cloud
Frances Raeburn Dec 2022
maybe
let me not be the last ember
in your fire
I still have a flicker
within
that could ignite
to a higher power
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Clarity
Maybe just another word for
Shame
Reality
Maybe just another word for
Pain
Me
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Me
I go to sleep each night
With the  faint shadow of the girl I used to be
And the sallow shadow of the girl I long to be
Sleeping safely
Either side of
Me
Me
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
Me
Read my words
and know
in the simplicity
and confusion
of them
you
have a chance
to know me
Me
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
Me
Last one to leave
switch the lights off
one thing for.sure
it will never
be
me
Me
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
Me
There is nothing but
the outside of me
left
this face
this skin
the inside of me
has slowly begun to
wither
from within.
Me
Frances Raeburn Jul 2022
Me
Thank you
for seeing
me
when I am blind
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