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Lakin Oct 2016
Famous hands
victim to this lonesome
canvas,
abandoned in the candlelit
hours of dreary nights
spent shackled to misery,
turmoil, and a glass- no, a
bottle-
of the nearest liquor.
Grieving in the pit
of bottomless words,
their bodies destroyed by the
chaos of nothing.

My mundane shadow
lives in the light of their
inventive sacrifice--
I bleed overused metaphors,
and plagiarize their pain.
conflicted on how I feel about this one.
  Oct 2016 Lakin
Em
If I should fall in love with you
Please hold me close as lovers do
But hold me soft
For my heart is sore
From the callous man that came before
  Sep 2016 Lakin
alicia
Autumn's amber hued
Sunday afternoons
are laced with regret
for days gone to soon.

Yellowed pages
folded and faded,
are the leaves underfoot,
sweet and decaying.

Now the fall moon
will be waning blue,
and so goes this life,
a memory too.
Lakin Sep 2016
You're written in God's perfect image
and the mundane words
I pen down
will never capture the allure
of you.
God didn't require editing.
Write poetry about all the beautiful things I may never have
Lakin Sep 2016
not the something prose can cure,
nor any amount of wine you pour
can help endure the pain of his evanescent face,
always being the one you're looking for
I met a boy, and I'm going to look for him in all the love I have from here on. Please, send your remorse.
Lakin Aug 2016
I fear that what I look forward to may never come back--
that he's dancing with the dust I'm choking on.
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