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I am haunted:
Not by poltergeist,
but by my unlived lives.
Parallel universes
won't ever speak,
they took an oath
to keep from me.
I have words and voices
humming in my head
that will never be met
outside of my bed.
I have to accept
I cannot have it all,
I have to accept
knowing nothing at all.
 Nov 2020 Shanti Starks
Jay
and they all applied to the consequences of your absence.
 Nov 2020 Shanti Starks
Nyx
-

I like you

-
Nothing more and nothing less
 Nov 2020 Shanti Starks
teatears
He cried like rain
And screamed like thunder

And I

I was a quiet river deafened by his storms
 Nov 2020 Shanti Starks
Josh Hill
You know I’m
Here like stone
Waiting for you
To return.

I gave you all my love
And now it slowly fades away
Like the embers of the night
At dawn.

I’m cold to the touch,
Frozen like a glacier
Numb to the pain
Of you.

All I see since
You’ve been gone
Is the emptiness of everything
Around me.

I turn to stone
And when you return
You’ll find nothing but a garden statue
Awaiting you.
The manic pixie dream girl wouldn't fall for you
So you fell for the poisonous girl in the red dress instead,
Thinking they were the same.
And they're quite similar, really, all mad and free.
But the difference between pixie dream girl and me
Is that she is sweet.
She'll do what she wants: She might love you, she might leave you.
Gently. Softly.
I am not so sweet, not so gentle, not so soft.
I will leave you, I won't love you, and you will come crawling back.
I want you to love me until you cry
And I want you to cry for me like a dying man for breath,
A starving man for a meal,
A soaked man for the sun,
And a deserted man for rain and
Even then
I'll leave you again, crawling through the sand.
All that, just because I can.
I poem your name
With longing
In sadness
Am i still standing
At the gate of dawn
If you are the sun I wait for
Which is still dark
Wrapped in the wings of the night
Say O my longing
Between dense sky and the sea
Hugging each other secretly
You are coming to me
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