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 May 2017 Iris Madden
Anon C
I only wanted to love you
I just wanted to hold you
Watch your face as your smile reached your eyes
Etch the image in my mind before it dies
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I just wanted to teach you
Reach my hand out and touch your heart
Your eyes had so much to tell me
Like the fact that you and I will never be
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You never wanted to love me
You never wanted to hold me
As the tears ran down my face
You turned and walked away
You’d rather be any other place
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Maybe one day you will change your mind
And I will be waiting stuck in time
I still only want to love you
I still only wish to hold you
You’re the only one I’ll ever see
You’re the only one for me
As it is sung

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 May 2017 Iris Madden
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 May 2017 Iris Madden
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i wrote a lot of great poetry when i was in love
i wrote even better poetry when i was in pain
i wrote the best poetry when i realized that the two emotions were actually the same.
 May 2017 Iris Madden
allie
counting down
10 [sighing thoughts, aching fingernails]
9 [ugh where do i go now]
8 [falling apart...]
7 [my eyes are slowly blinking now]
6 [at the sight of your frail broken body]
5 [the quiet beeping next to you]
4 [my own heart is picking up]
3 [oh god oh god oh god]
2 [the beeping is rising the beeping is rising]
1 [i'm crying now]
**silence
Love you Granddad. You mean the world to me, and you left. I love you so so so much.
It's way to calm, just look around.
it's all gone still, no rhythm found.

but you could say: "all flora came to life"
but something so **** still just can't contain life.

and cities-towns, they've gone constant.
so now all that can ever change's so distant.

Nor it would rain or snow all of a sudden.
so killer-sun is now my deathlike burden.

and the grey people, it's their now turn act.
so i'll only survive by running. that's a fact.

and so i'm tired of being strong,
thus voices offer me free fall.
but i shall not, for none is there to catch, or fly beside, or back to call.
Strange,
To be loved.
Odd,
To be forgotten.
Cold,
To be abandoned.
Harsh,
To be acquainted.

Yet desired,
To be held.
Loathed,
To be alone.

My emotions shaded grey.
My actions swayed with the wind.
You're my fear
Everything that i hold dear
You hang on every word I say
As I pray, you won't grow
To one day, live that way
But to find your own words
Of world's old and new
That take you places
Beyond all that i once knew
Till that day, I'll always say
I'll carry your fear
Like a one true love
That i keep near
So grow my angel child
Take this life as you can
Be it one or be it many
Let it be dreams that you carry
And if you ever misstep
If you stumble or falter
I will always be humbled and proud
To be the one, to call you
Daughter
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