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You only want
what you want
and I can only
give you what
you allow me.
But, god, I
have so much
more to offer.
I try for now but the past comes back
I can't take that
Ripping me apart it bruises my heart
Grips me tight leaving deep finger marks
Oh the remarks
Oh how we act
All I ask
Why did you do that
Why would heaven decide to hurt my heart
Why couldn't I have us
I was so young
It still makes me cry
At least It gave me a big heart

I would give it all for you if only
It ***** being lonely
 Jul 2013 Jesse Belcher
Sadie
Dawn
 Jul 2013 Jesse Belcher
Sadie
A deep blackness covered her sight.
She knew not how long it had been
since she saw the light,
But she knew somewhere in her soul
The light would come and paint the
world in colors,
A warmth of colors of beginnings,
reds, oranges, yellows.
This beginning was called ritausma.
The beginning of the day.
Ritausma is Finnish for dawn.
Copyright @ Sadie Whitney
She sees the pain around her,
and understand their fears.
She is far too conscious
of other people's tears.

She hurts herself to cope
with all of these sad stories.
She doesn't understand her thoughts
and is terrified of insecurity.

She learns her thoughts are normal,
and that she is far to kind.
She must not worry,
because her friends are not far behind.
Insomnia day dreams deliver the message
Messing with emotions gets hearts arrested
Blessings disguising as anthropomorphic
Telling me lies, scary times like horror flick
Side notes enabled, let me see you comment
On complimenting verses like toilets to *****
I'm dying to see what it is you can say
Sorry for sincerity is lacking today
Try to be convincing in your words of dismay
Disapproval is common, for me anyway

Let your heart pound as you slip down deep
Not quite a coma, something other than sleep
Rest your heavy eyes as you come undone
You'll need the strength for when the time comes
Unravel your mind, let the brightness glow
Then open your eyes to watch it explode
Just open your eyes is what it comes down to
Open your eyes, insomnia impromptu
I can feel the numbness, it's coming on again
and gradually depleting what I did not defend
The sources they are many and all of them verbose
cacophony symbolic of everything they know  
They're speaking in a language they thought I'd misconstrue
but I have been decoding by watching what they do
Remember how you got here, I ask myself a while
and more so why you stayed then, to go the extra mile
But when I pose these questions, I start to hear them quell
their little tiny voices in hopes that I will tell
I've surely been too careless in giving out my words
forgetting they are taken the moment they are heard
But if there's no reversing, no backwards other way
I know I must continue and say what I must say
 Jul 2013 Jesse Belcher
echo
Night- paces and restlessly stations
leaf'd sentries in the silhouette sky;

Black* - cossetting, scissored, jagged
tatoo'd trees lend watchful eyes;

Branches - whisper aches and pains
with sweeping hands of hurried lies;

Trust - exhumes her two-cent breath -
*"You promised not to compromise.."
Tonight the trees were
black
lace
curtains
that silhouetted the sky
the breeze
shuddered
and
whispered
to me:
"Take care of your promise ...my child"
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