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Sever the limb
Cauterize the wound
Ties cut so easily
It's over

File it away as a failure
Set your subject free
We are now recruiting!
Please form an orderly queue

"Move on," you chant, "Let go!"
******* sociopath
Mental disasters are but another tremor
In your psyche shaken by olden quakes

And please don't follow up
They've learned your tricks
They understand what forever means
And they impose the same on others

It's nothing personal
Just science and trials
It's always personal
Just psyches and lives
I miss that which has long ceased to be
I'm sure you're still beautiful
I know you are
But you're not who I fell in love with
Not anymore
Time has done so much
Changed, gnarled, skewed

I wander through graveyards of dead memories
Fondly reminiscing warm hands, soft lips, radiant sunsets, cruise ships

We amass stories, experiences
We adapt and change
What is left of the person you were 3 years ago? 5? 10?

And so again I'm sorry
(I've learned the taste of that word well)
I've no idea who you are today
But I love you, whatever that means
However I can, I love you
My life is starting a new chapter
While nostalgia's fingers firmly grasp pages dog-eared from wear, despair
Refusing to lose their place, to let go
Stubbornly bookmarked a time pockmarked with sorrow

Oh foolish persistence!
Look ahead to new endeavor
Love's too clever to predict
Sleep is a dream
for fools
who believe
in dreams
she makes my coffee
SoRight
she makes me think
SoRight
she makes me
SoRight
that two words become
one exclamation,
that is precisely
SoRight

7:52 am
but I have been to Kent,
back, thrown forth and back again,
so oft
that my words cannot
properly best
the nature of my
welling affection
sufficiently well

nurse us,
the world,
children, old souls, family,
in a big old house,
with poems of ribboned words,
that come daily(!)
like the sun riding up,
ending our days
with a sunset color collage
and always a
sweet good night
to her princes and princesses

unasked for, but so long overdue,
I over do what needs
not just saying,
but witnessing,repeating

this woman
upon who mine eyes have yet to
gaze,
yet upon me,
she has so oft touched,
grazed
with deft phrase,
poet alive read,
I have no need to go to Kent,
for she
thru words,
resides inside my humbled
palate of
poets admired...
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