L: Poems

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L Jul 2014

10w

Summer tastes like
sweet chocolate
on your
even sweeter lips.

Forgot how much I loved kissing you, my love.
For R <3

**
Leigh

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L Dec 2015

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What life is lost
without countless others
going with it?

For Oscar Juliuss Grant III
Wherever you are now

**
Leigh

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L Mar 2014

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You look like a poem that I would read forever.

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L Aug 2015

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Life is an exile, a journey to a nonexsistent home

EC

**
Leigh

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L May 2014

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Sleeping next to you
was an
unattainable dream
come true...

Feeling loving and loved.
R, I love love love you.
And if I forgot to tell you again,
you amaze me.

**
Leigh

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L Feb 2014

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Don't you realize I'm the happiest I've been in years?

...so why are you trying to ruin it?

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L Apr 2014

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My eyes follow like slaves forced to follow their master.

and they only follow
you

**
Leigh

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L May 2015

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You have my healing heart singing to the heavens above

For B, with so much adoration

**
Leigh

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L Feb 2014

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All the love poems in the world wouldn't be enough.

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L Aug 2015

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I'm glad I did not die before I met you

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L Dec 2015

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We're blind
to what
we do not
want to
believe

There were so many things I didn't want to believe about you
Now I know them all too well

**
Leigh

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L Sep 2015

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I don't see the light,
but the path leading on.

**
Leigh

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L Apr 2015

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Please don't take
this feeling
I have found at last

This Feeling // Alabama Shakes

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L May 2015

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You're only a disappointment if you allow yourself to be

**
Leigh

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L Apr 2014

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My poetry is the product of a fool
in love.

**
Leigh

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L Dec 2015

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Broke my heart in July
Broke my body in August

But you won't break my mind.

**
Leigh

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L Apr 2015

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Baby,
be the one that I lose my mind for.

**
Leigh

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L Aug 2015

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Here, we build walls.
There, we can tear them down.

Dreaming of you and Ruston

**
Leigh

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L May 2015

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We move against each other,
dancing to inner complementary melodies

**
Leigh

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L Sep 2015

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When this world upsets me,
this music sets me free

Gary Clark Jr.
"The Healing"

**
Leigh

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L May 2015

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If you can't treat her like royalty,
let someone else.

**
Leigh

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L May 2015

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You've made a home in the space between my ribs

**
Leigh

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L Sep 2015

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I wish I was dead and that you didn't care

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L Sep 2015

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Slice me open and let the blood run its course

indifferent

**
Leigh

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L Mar 2014

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I am slowly (but surely)
   stumbling
      crashing
         falling
            for you...

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L Apr 2015

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How lucky am I to know love so many times?

I'm taking a moment to appreciate the fact that I've been loved by more than one person and at such a young age.
Hopefully, there will be more to come.

**
Leigh

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L Aug 2015

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Bright blue eyes of youth,
for who do you search?

what am I doing half the time

**
Leigh

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L May 2015

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I can taste death in the back of my throat

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L Sep 2015

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Yours are the eyes I see when I close mine

Eh

**
Leigh

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L May 2015

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I have been encompassed by the warmth of your existence

**
Leigh

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L Sep 2015

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My smile reaches your ears and your words smile back

There's always you

**
Leigh

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L May 2015

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Take me in your arms
Keep me safe from harm

**
Leigh

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L Aug 2015

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This love overwhelms me; I am afraid to fall again.

**
Leigh

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L Oct 2015

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Your fingertips graze singed flesh.
Do you notice the burns?

**
Leigh

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L May 2014

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Who do I cry for anymore?
Myself or lack thereof?

**
Leigh

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L May 2015

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Through it all, my heart continues to ache for you.

You've hurt so many, yet I still feel the need to defend you.

**
Leigh

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L Apr 2014

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I submerged myself in nature and felt
love
around me.

Mother Nature's Son // The Beatles

just something that popped into my head while doing homework outside...
**
Leigh

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L May 2015

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There's power behind your touch
Strength hiding in your kiss

**
Leigh

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L Feb 2016

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Will it take your breath?
Will it make you burn?

Leigh

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L Mar 2015

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Nighttime drains the heart
that which daytime's warmth
keeps full.

I hate feeling lonely.

**
Leigh

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L May 2015

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What did I do
to deserve a love
this pure?

I don't deserve him at all

**
Leigh

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L Sep 2014

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Oh,
what relief does
a blade
bring that
love
cannot?

For Ash and others.

**
Leigh

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L Apr 2015

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Are you absolutely sure you could love someone like me?

I can't say the words, not yet
I'm sorry

**
Leigh

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L Jan 2016

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You constantly push buttons
But when will the bomb detonate?

Leigh

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L Aug 2015

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It was so real.
Do you remember?
Don't you see?

**
Leigh

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L Apr 2015

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Do not turn my bleeding heart into one oozing poison.

I'm not trying to ruin anything, ******.

**
Leigh

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L Nov 2015

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It's beaten
It's over
It's done
I have finally *won

Now I can
and I don't expect you to understand

**
Leigh

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L Jul 2015

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I've forgotten what your voice tastes like in the night

Sorry I haven't been writing much this summer
Once school starts, I'll be posting almost daily
Thanks for sticking around

**
Leigh

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L Jul 2015

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The daylight sings your praises
and with it,
I harmonize.

For B

**
Leigh

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L Apr 2015

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You are a sunset mistaken for a cold, waking dawn.

**
Leigh