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Katelyn May Jun 2013
The truths I said, so brave and bold
Were just lies, fool’s tales for gold.
You could not trust but hired me
To ferret out secrets that could be
Dangerous and paid for tales well told.

Caught up in drama and the romance
Of the spy flirting death and chance
You thought me better than I could be:
Whose fault that you could not see
Dancers must invent their dance.
Katelyn May Jun 2013
I feel the sting of
Your last breath
In my chest,
Its been stuck there for quite some time.
Every time i breathe in,
You remind me
Of how hard living is;
Every time I exhale,
You remind me
Of how easy it would be
To let go.
Katelyn May Jun 2013
I was always afraid to climb trees.
Not that I wasn't mystified
by the wisdom of branches.
Not that I didn't want to see the world
from the perch of a blackbird.
Not that it was impossible
or that I had no worthy tree.
It was that imminent fall
the broken arm  
the bruised ego
that so reminded me
of why it’s scary to climb
anything at all.
Katelyn May Jun 2013
Cigarettes do not burn this fast.
I kneaded the thought into my skull, but it still refused to enter my brain.
One day, (possibly) me and him will love
and love how lovers do.
But this will remain unknown.
He will live a life
of four-leaved clovers
and rabbit feet.
While I,
will end mine,
now.
Katelyn May Jun 2013
Maybe we were not meant for a partner.
Maybe humans weren't made to love each other.
Maybe that's why I have no feeling
when you touch me.
Your hands beg for me
and I try my hardest to love you
but I simply
cannot.
Katelyn May Jun 2013
Whenever I put that pistol to my temple
Will the ringing continue
Even when


I'm six feet under?
Katelyn May Jun 2013
Your ghost haunts me still.
[Did you send him here to me?]

I see
         your tousled blond hair,
         those bright blue eyes
         your round red lips,
but
        It is never really you.

Your lips are the first
I ever thought of touching.
[Did you know how close I came?]

It snowed the day after you left.
I tried desperately
to catch just one
                            perfect flake
to send to you.

You cannot mail a snowflake!
my mother righteously said.
[Did you remember the frozen day
when I loved you first?]

My heart is frozen now.

And I suppose it didn't matter
since you were gone.

You left me here and I
could not forgive you,
that must be why
your ghost haunts me now.

I am sorry. I am so sorry.

I let you slip
through my fingers
                               and now
there is nothing left.
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