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Tanisha Jackland Dec 2018
The only remedy
for heartbreak
is time and a poem.
Tanisha Jackland Dec 2018
The trick to being immortal
is forgetting
the flesh
the bone
the blood
the life
the birth
the death
You live lucid
dreaming all this up.
Tanisha Jackland Dec 2018
When your voice cracks.
When you are telling the truth.
Say it
over and over again
to them and to yourself.
Until you remember
what is real.
until the truth shakes
the room and they feel
it coming before
you do.
Truth is a hard language to learn.
Tanisha Jackland Dec 2018
The best poem
is a meager tidy
little thing
a bold usurping
phenom
built from a small
cascade of words...
Tanisha Jackland Dec 2018
You are the cup
that runneth over
spilling into the
fear of the collective
of your ***** bigness
But silently we seek
the warmth of you
your body the
billow of clouds
a resting place
expanding until
we finally see
the true you
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