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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 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 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 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
I see you
and you see me
‘doesn’t matter
if it is not
forever.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Me
It’s just the flame
that interests me.
Me
Frances Raeburn Jul 2022
Me
Thank you
for seeing
me
when I am blind
Me
Frances Raeburn Nov 2022
Me
I am patient
I am kind
but please know
I am two  minutes away
from not giving a **** .
Frances Raeburn Feb 2021
Somewhere way above who I set out to be
unintentionally
I became me
No one I set out to be
or honestly am proud to be
genuinely stuck with me
wake up everyday with me
tried more than once to lose me
annoyingly
still wake up with me
constantly critical of me
randomly amused by me
desperately abused by me
always trying
unsuccessfully
to eventually
get the point
of me.
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
I am absolutely nothing
Without the rest of you
Picking me up
Dusting me down
Carrying my pain
Propping me up
And keeping me
Sane
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
Mediocrity
will be the death of me
and I suspect of you too
Mediocrity
Grows grows voraciously
Let’s give it it’s due
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
Meet me at the bar
next door
the neighbours are tired
of hearing us roar.
Frances Raeburn Jan 2021
I knew lots of things
before I met you
Yet
day by day
hour by hour
minute by minute
second by second
they all left me
bled out of me
day by day
hour by hour
minute by minute
second by second
until eventually
I was just left
with me
and me.
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
No
I didn’t sign up for this
No
You got it wrong
Yes
I love the diamonds
Yes
I love the song
No
I didn’t sign up for this
Yes
I fell in love with you
No
I didn’t sign up for this
No
Yes......
No
Yes.....
Christ...
What a mess....,,
Met
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
Met
Of all the people
I have ever met
You are probably the
best
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
Your words have a beauty
A cadence
A joy
A realness
A sorrow
A sadness
A joy
Can I drink tequila
In Mexico
Instead?
Frances Raeburn Jan 2022
Let’s pretend
no one ever broke our hearts
Let’s draw a line under yesterday
and wake up anew
with just me
and you.
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
There is a hole
right there
in the middle bit of me
like a Russian doll
a life within a life
barely breathing
don’t come too close
you could fall right in
deeply
into the empty of me
Others have.
Save yourself
Walk away..,,..
You left
just a beat
before midnight
and I
woke up
to a brand new day.
Frances Raeburn Jul 2023
not sure when it happened
maybe last week
Tuesday or Wednesday
sometime midweek
Frances Raeburn Mar 2024
I might as well
be someone else
for all the authenticity
left inside
of me.
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
There are three thousand miles
between us
three thousand reasons
not to believe that
this love
could be real
you look at me
like I am the only girl
in the world
but I’m not
there are millions of us
look around
open your eyes
there are millions
of us
just milling around !
Frances Raeburn Apr 2022
She rarely left her own mind
and when she did
the outside seemed
so unkind
Frances Raeburn Jun 2023
I like your smile
you like mine
so far
it’s all sublime
don’t introduce your real self
in case
I have to find mine
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
Let us be quiet now
for a minute
Soften our minds
and our souls
Let us be blind now
for a minute
cherish our hearts
and our foes
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
I have missed
the very best parts
of you
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Woke up this morning
and couldn’t find myself
Looked in the mirror
Nobody there
Searched high and low
No sign of anyone
Anywhere
Dialed 911
They didn’t care
Just hung around
Alone
All day
With nobody there
when there was
no more you
wasn’t quite sure
what to do
so just made a big deal
out of missing you
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
Even here
in the midst of our decay
I still have words
left to say
Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
You haven’t mistaken me
for someone
you used to know
You have mistaken me for someone
I used to be
Frances Raeburn May 2022
You have not mistaken me
for someone you used to know
You have mistaken me
for someone  I used to be
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