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People break my heart.
They lure you into friendship.
Then yank it away.
-
Finding a purpose,

is like finding a unicorn,

you must believe first.
In the unknowable eye of space
or heaven
The Voice of God sings
or does not sing.

It is up to you to decide:
Is silence absence?
Or is it the intake of breath
between phrases?
O, I am my own muse -
I am the one I love,
the one I eternally choose.

I dance with myself all night long,
slip on a dress,
and belt my favorite song.

I close my eyes,
hug my hips and happily die
I am -
the apple of my eye.
Sad
Pain I'd never known.
Sadness had its hooks in me.
The wounds bled me dry.
 Sep 14 Courtney Hawkins
Hex
He sought not lessons wise and cold,
Nor wisdom told from distant height.
What he desired was simple love,
A warmth that fills him through the night.
Not praise or hollow words to say,
But gentle care that lights his way.
My heart is for stray cats,
searching for shelter
until something better
comes along.
The highest praise
Sacrifice
Not the leaves
Branches
Fruit
Bark
Or form
Of the tree that is you

I will become your roots.
You cannot crawl into someone’s skin,
Because it’s different to what he’d seen;
All the deluge he’d ever been, all is unforeseen…
a poem about judging people like books
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