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Katie Murray Jun 2016
We both know how this dance ends
But still we move hesitantly
Reservations weigh our limbs down
Because
You have confidence issues
And I am just the worst at dancing

The music is ridiculously loud
And by the end of each week
I swear I’m going deaf
(Seriously-
I think I can see our friends
Giving us side-glares)
(They can probably hear it too)

We dance around each other
And each time my eyes meet yours
Even though I’ve turned the dial as far as I thought it could go
The music gets just that bit louder

These steps seem so familiar
One to the left
And you move to the right
Now you step forward
And I leap back
(Trying my best not to trip too much along the way)
(But I always do)
(And you always notice)
(*******)

And that’s not the only thing you know

You and I both know that the music gets so loud
That I can’t even hear my heart beating when I’m around you
(Quite a feat, believe me)
And that your head would snap up at a single chord

And even though every memory of dancing that I have is a kick to my stomach
You were always the one to pick me up when I got winded
And even though you think you’re only on the fence between mediocre and satisfactory
I was the one in the crowd who cheered for you at every chance I got

Maybe I can’t dance
But you can
And with the music filling our ears
Maybe you can forget anyone else exists

And besides
We both know how this dance ends
03 / 05 / 16
Katie Murray Jun 2016
He was the congregation’s reprobate

(Ashes to ashes, Hellfire to just plain Hell)



She was the hospital’s walking carouse

(Who is more foolish? The fool or the one who stumbles into the bottom of her barrel?)



He was the searing in their souls

She was the moonshine in their veins



Together they were noxious

(Bonnie and Clyde were nothing compared to this)



The Devil

And the Drug

They were never meant to grow up

(2nd star to the right, and straight on ‘til morning, Honey)




Ain’t that the way it always starts
2015
Katie Murray May 2016
i'm fading away.
transcending
life
and anything that comes
after.

i'm wasting away.
pieces of me
breaking off
here and there.

i'm going away
and the blazing trail i've left
behind me
will burn the truth
into all who dare to follow.

don't try and save me.
i'm dying
anyway.
02/02/16
  May 2016 Katie Murray
Lyra
a poem need not
rhyme. it just simply has to
mean something to you.
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