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Frances Raeburn Jun 2023
let our love fly
let the gentle breeze
ruffle
feathers I didn’t know I had
until I saw you
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
Unwritten
Unread
Unsaid
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
I inhale  you
your love
oxygen to
my weary bones
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
I am not who I set out to me
That much i will agree
is true
The rest about me is
purely fallacy
I am not that girl
I wouldn’t dare
and honestly
in truth
I actually
wasn’t
even
there
Truth is I was
at home
washing my hair
So there!
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
If your smile  did not make it
real
If your love did make me
Feel
Up
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
Up
I am just a girl
standing in front of a boy
and asking him
to wake the ****
up
Us
Frances Raeburn Sep 2023
Us
if it all fell apart tomorrow
and why wouldn’t it
I would still applaud  the
fact
that we tried
Us
Frances Raeburn Apr 2022
Us
Let me lie in between us
so I don’t have to
become one of
us
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
Us
Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
Us
I loved our love
the loudness of it
the laughing out loud of it
the easy fit of it
the we’re okay with it
the we didn’t care of it
the boldness of it
the badness of it
the airiness of it
the very sound of it
the endless song of it
the ***** the world of it
the world is ours of it
the very essence of it
the us being us of it
the loving  each other of it
I loved our love
I know you did too
when in world
did it happen
when did the us in us
become the end of us.
Us
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
Us
I will leave now
Quietly
Without fuss
But I want you to know
I am leaving
Just for us
Us
Frances Raeburn Mar 2024
Us
the power of us
the joy of us
the precious of us
the pure good of us
the easy of us
the lovely of us
the worth of us
the best of us
has somehow
become lesser
tangled
confused
and lost
somewhere deep in
the complicated and confused effort of
trying to be
just the two of us .


but still
I’m going nowhere
pour me another song
and I’ll sing you another heartache!
Us
Us
I miss you
not so much
the being with you
more the noise of you
the look of you
the late night nights with you
the carelessness of you
the talking out loud of you
the who gives a **** of you
the silence of you
the lovely of you
the truth of you
the I don’t want to be
anywhere else
of you
I guess
in all honesty
I miss the very
precious
and beautiful
essence of
you.
Frances Raeburn Jul 2023
I used to be
your favourite drunk
What happened?
Frances Raeburn Jun 2022
talk me gently
into tomorrow
make today
a vague memory
Frances Raeburn Jul 2023
Your eyes suggest
a place we shouldn’t go
your winning streak
ended
at my feet.
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
I love everything about this
the opulence
is impressive
I love the deep lavish crimson
privilege
that surrounds us
if we fall
it will be on lush purple velvet
at least
that’s what we have been
led
to believe
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
Your voice
I don’t hear
Your breath
is not clear
Your love
no longer dear
Frances Raeburn May 2021
There’s a voice
deep inside all of us
we can’t name it
although we blame it
for telling us
our everyday
truth
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Buyer Beware
Is void
When you buy
In a sale
W
don’t wake me up
unless
you have something
new
to say
Frances Raeburn Jan 2024
Do not drip feed  me
your love
I am not an infant
I can walk.
Frances Raeburn Jan 2022
You walk away so
easily
makes me wonder why
you don’t just keep on
walking
google
something interesting to say
or
here’s an idea
just walk
the **** away!
Frances Raeburn Mar 2022
I caught your tear
mid fall
before it exploded
and soaked
our fortified wall .
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
I can stand up
But I will never stand tall
I can speak out
But I will never reach all
I can stack bricks
But it will never be a wall
That we can stand against
so nothing matters
At all
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
I will pick up the pieces
sweep the pain away
decorate the hall
just as it was before
wallpaper over the feelings
clean the horror from the ceiling
but I can’t promise
there will be
a speedy
healing
Frances Raeburn Jun 2022
You want to be stronger than me
you are
You want to be higher than me
you are
You want to be better than me
you are
You want to be taller than me
you are
You want to be richer than me
you are
You want to be smarter than me
you are
You want to be fancier than me
you are
You want to be more wanted than me
you are
You want to be heard more than me
you are
You want to be more revered than me
you are
You want to be funnier than me
Oooops
You are not !
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
I don’t know how to say the words
I want to say
so I offer you
these three million
that I should never say
War
Frances Raeburn Aug 2024
War
all I want
is to find you
to know you
to be you
to understand you
to hear you
to have space for you
all I want
is for you
to understand me
to find me
to hear me
to know me
have space for me
all I want
is to know you
and for you
to know me too
and then
I think
we would never wage war.
War
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
War
The world is at war
With children
They are small
We are big
They are weak
We are strong
We will most likely
Win
Which one of us will lead
In triumphant song?
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
It doesn’t take a lot
just a universal will
that we will not allow
history
to repeat
itself
at least
not
on our watch
not a one amongst us wants
war
why has one man
got so much
power
We
Frances Raeburn Jan 2021
We
We are
an
unvarnished
masterpiece
We are
an untuned
piano
We are
an unfinished
script
We are
an abandoned
novel
We are
an unsung
melody
We are
A love story
never told.
Frances Raeburn Oct 2024
I will leave your love here
in the graveyard of regret
because I cannot take it with me
the burden
the memory
the joy
the pain
the  love
the almost
the lovely
too heavy
for my already
heartbroken
weakened heart.
Frances Raeburn Oct 2023
my words weep
tears
my tears weep
words
Frances Raeburn May 2021
Don’t be that weird person
we always promised each other
we would never
ever
be.
Frances Raeburn May 2022
we have overstayed
our welcome
in each other’s lives
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
Come on now
you said you would sweep me off my feet
that was the deal
on a  late night New York City street
so why am I still standing here
feet firmly planted
right here
on 127 West 88th Street?
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?
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
I love you
whatever that means.
Frances Raeburn Jan 2022
If I have been untrue
please know
it had nothing whatsoever
to do with you
it was all about me
absolutely nothing
whatsoever
to do with
You
Frances Raeburn May 2021
I lost you
just can’t remember where
somewhere in between last night
and here
or maybe somewhere
in between last year
and there
just can’t remember
when
or where........
Frances Raeburn May 2021
Can I just say
last night
I fell in love with you
all over again
and I suddenly remembered
when
You said our love
would
make a difference
I believed
but when
does that
kick in?
when there was nothing
it still felt  like
something
Frances Raeburn Mar 2024
Do you recall when love was lost?
not too sure myself
that country weekend with friends
comes to mind
we left the lovely pub to walk home
everyone was jolly
the route was dark but not for the first time
to the idilic cottage
with the lamps on
just before we went in you said
hang on
have I forgotten something
I’m missing something
for sure
were you missing her
I was.
Frances Raeburn Mar 2024
When did those little boy arms
that ran to me
full of joy and laughter
and wild abandon
straight into my arms
unquestionable love
when did those little boy arms become
strong enough to hold me
and save me?
Frances Raeburn Oct 2024
when dawn
broke
so did I
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