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Rupert Pip Jan 2019
I’m star-struck and stunned
like a deer in the headlights.
The seconds I’ve shunned;
in the moments of twilight.
As fear has proceeded;
with words I believed in;
A hug that we needed.
We came to say goodbye.

Shoulders turned away
like a punch that I’ve taken.
Tears like a cliché
that cannot be mistaken.
A hurt that’s not unknown;
with time to recompose
and time to spend alone.
We came to say goodbye.
Rupert Pip Jan 2019
I have to say
you really messed me up.
You broke my trust
and pushed me through the rough.
I stood my ground
but now I’m out of luck.
So have your laugh
because you know you’ve won.
.
Rupert Pip Jan 2019
It’s not just time that flies
when I’m with you;
my feet have been off the ground
since we met.
Rupert Pip Jan 2019
When did love
become lust?
When did hate
become trust?
When did lies
become real?
When did we
become dust?
Rupert Pip Jan 2019
Unseen bombs in the strengthened city streets.
A war on thoughts will slay the common man
when wars become concrete and gasoline;
people are dead and yet it was the plan.

A child doesn’t carry candy these days;
they’ll take a knife to school and stand up strong.
A playground dream becomes a heavy haze;
with blood on a hopscotch hilltop: “so long.”

Procrastinate away your true value
obtain a hate for words; ignore your worth.
Practise a life of crime; become so blue.
But you’re so high you won’t come down to earth.

With a change of heart and a change of pace
we could try and prevent the world’s decay.
A sonnet.
Rupert Pip Jan 2019
I had to run so far away
so I simply jumped the fence.
But all they told me was a lie
and now my love’s past tense.
"the grass is greener on the other side"

- The first of many this year, happy new year everyone.
Rupert Pip Dec 2018
It’s the past that crafts
your origami heart.

Fold the page into a shape,
that makes you who you are.

Once folded it never quite goes back,
lines on the white, darkened to black.

You come out again from the dark
and I open the door.

Tear it up you shout
so you see it no more
I actually wrote this 4/5 years ago, dug it up the other day reading through old poems.
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