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My first kiss
My first friend
My first shoulder to cry on
My first support
My first love

But life is a cruel thing
Taking him so young
Leaving a stone and flag
I cried for years
Our son trying his best to support me
But how can a child help the parent

So much pain
So much fear
And I never wanted to forgive him
He didn't have to leave
He could have stayed
Stayed with us
Watch his son grow

But I guess remembering you
Is better then having you hear
Despite my longing for you
Craving your touch once more
We found happiness in the pain

We still visit you
Still loop you in when something happens
Leave you a seat at events
Like his band concert last fall

I think we're finally finding that happiness again
We can never replace you
Nor do we try
But we are getter better
One day at a time
I stay awake
Thinking of one
While another sleeps

Longing to feel wanted
Wishing to be held once more
Wanting to remember
What it ment to be safe

I lay awake
Unable to sleep
Creating false realities
Just to help me feel

Perhaps another level
Or another page
Might help in this
Long night ahead
 May 2023 Crow
Anais Vionet
Edgar Alan Poe is dead. Seriously, I read it.
He died in October 1849 - or did he?
Do we really know?

Poe wrote about death a lot,
he teased with it, it was his favorite tool.
He kept death close and twisted it like a knife.

His profession was the macabre, the shadow,
the summoned dread and the gruesome aftermath.

He was a writer and a critic - what’s more dreadful than a critic?

They say he died from “unknown causes”
- how absolutely perfect.
BLT Marriam Webster word of the day challenge: Aftermath: the period after a destructive event.
 May 2023 Crow
Harry Gione
I wore sneakers today
For a wander down memory lane
Called an old friend to talk
And took time for a walk
Same as I've always been
Dressed for winter over my skin
Hoping rather to laugh
At the things from our past
Things I've come to miss
To cut conversationlessness
We danced anticlockwise
In lines in our minds eyes
 May 2023 Crow
Carlo C Gomez
The city that never sleeps
is also
The city that never dreams

Look out for future unrest!
If a picture is worth
A thousand words
What's it worth
In dreams ?
Is there such a thing
As a cheap dream?
No
Only cheap words
 May 2023 Crow
CJ Sutherland
Rubber, dub dub
Three men in a tub
And who do you
think they be?

The butcher,
the candlestick maker
the widow maker

A rock of the boat ,
A large wave
Gave a forceful jolt
A Brisk breeze
A loud sneeze
And they all
fell into the sea

The butcher caught
the largest fish that day
The candlestick maker
blew out his last wish they say
And the widow maker
claimed their souls
All three
Rubber dub, dub
three men in a tub
This is example of a limerick
 May 2023 Crow
CJ Sutherland
Think again
We live in a
world of pretend
Feelings over fact
Pay another tax
Because I feel this way
There’s nothing left to say

                The real world.                   
  Just, let that go
Life under the rainbow.

Told what to know
Told what to think
Have a drink

Chose the;
Red pill or the Blue
Illuminati is in charge
without a moral clue
Appropriate pronouns
We Mimic like clowns,
free speech is dead
Hijacked
In our very head
AI Recording
Everything said

The Puppet Master
Pulls the strings
Controlling from
Behind the scenes

Big tech, Media,
Rewording  
the encyclopedia
The dark swamp
Giving
Talking prompts
Watching every
Blink of the eye
False distraction,
To catch a lie

Daily news suppressed
Social outbreaks, re-dressed
Mostly peaceful protest
Perhaps The masses will see
what government deems
Social norms should be
The end of future dreams
Wake up America before it’s to late
Judgement upon us, except your fate
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