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Emma Elisabeth Wood
F/UK
// queer poet // hack poet //
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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Emma Elisabeth Wood
Sep 2020
impossible feat
the electricity of your touch
reverberates
through my spine
shocking my heart into
beating again
a frozen pulse, thawed
you breathed live into
me
when it seemed
an impossible feat
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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Sep 2020
erased
perhaps the poem was deleted
in a frenzy of regret and rage
but words, once written
can never be truly
erased
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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Sep 2020
contrast
our lives are in constant
contrast
we live for the moonlight
but melt under the sun
long for the ocean
but drown under the waves
our love is no different
a heart in one hand
taken by another
a lover dreaming
stolen by the morning
we live and love
in a contradiction
confused and erratic
but always
always
searching for moments
of ecstasy in the chaos
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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Sep 2020
the poison
my cold heart
keeps on beating
my dark eyes
keep on seeing
my wrecked soul
keeps on growing
like a sunflower
turning like a head
towards the sun
I am
a seed
planted in rotten soil
blooming despite
the poison
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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Sep 2020
Poison Lungs
we are a stitch
in the fabric
of the universe
held together
by dreams
a breath in the
vast lungs
of time
devoured
overwhelmed
consumed
poisoned
by the air
of our own
insignificance
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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Sep 2020
Reckless Daydream
There is not beauty in everything,
a sunset can be spoiled by snow,
yet there is wonder in the
insignificant raindrop,
that hits my window at 4am,
stirring me from a nightmare
into a reckless daydream
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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Sep 2020
truth and lies
call me anything you like
to justify your lies
words are your weapon
but darling,
the truth is mine
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