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Once I thought I'd seen a butterfly
I watched its wings

touch and gape
touch and gape
touch and
fall

like a dying star
I witnessed its fall
swallowed by an ocean
coloured by the receding sun.
 Apr 2016 codenameDust
Kenēn
For this boy, a trip down memory lane
Is only a knock away.
But his hands are heavy
And only his tears are brave
Enough to fall and roll
The only feeling of cold
That his nerves can serve.

All of him is heavy
His spirit, breath and heart.
But it seems like everything
Is light enough to go with the wind.
Leaving him in poverty and dullness
And a trip down memory lane.
 Apr 2016 codenameDust
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 Apr 2016 codenameDust
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And I have been telling people
To never hesitate,
To always love,
To never waste time

I have been reminding people
It's okay to cry,
It's okay to care
It's okay to show affection

I have been urging people
To help the broken
To pull the down
To heal the beaten

But all these are just excuses
All these are lies
I want people to save other people
*I just want people to save me
I
loved
him.
Sometimes
he
loved
me.
 Apr 2016 codenameDust
Koubashii
Depressingly,
I’m looking for your eyes,
but they are joyfully singing alone.

I’m staring,
just for you to somehow look here,
this empty place that I’m standing with unbearable loneliness.

Can I touch you?
So that you can notice how tremblingly my heart is pounding  

No, can I hold your hand?
Can I hear your voice, the one that used to harmonize with mine?

So that I can make sure, those words you said, they’re not lies,
right?

Will you hear me out, for another time?

This heart of mine can’t reach you,
or either tell you, how lonely it is.
Now that I've lived all these years
And experienced so many things
With my march to Oldfartdom
On it's inexorable way
I've been thinking about the things I've learned
Perhaps to pass on to others

Well.......
It's like this
Life is wonderful
And life is ******
Love is elating
Love is devastating
Birth is a true miracle
Being a parent is scary
Money is a blessing
Whilst wealth is a curse
So......
What do I know?

                              By Phil Roberts
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