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Lauren Grace Feb 2018
I wonder how you sit on piles of beatific feelings
While the poor are starved for hope.
They are ready to consume anything uplifting.
Many folks are competent enough to give their time and money.
But I find a bad taste in my mouth
When those presented with the gift of gaiety
Choose only to share it with a select few.
  Feb 2018 Lauren Grace
alyssa ann
you asked me what i wanted today.
between the lips of your sulking smile,
you asked me what you should do,
where we should go from here.
amid each gasp of breath
came a despairing tear
that welled up in your eye.
i reached for your hand
as my voice turned to a quivering whisper,
"i love you."
after all,
how could i tell you what i wanted,
how could i be so selfish.
i want you to be happy, again,
even if that means fighting on a while longer.
i'm sick of fighting to stay strong.
Lauren Grace Jan 2018
I am left to wonder if you really do appreciate music like you say.
Because after you stopped looking me straight in the eyes,
I became blind to the passion and melody that you claimed pulsed in those veins.
You articulate when you lie
Lauren Grace Jan 2018
You attempt to make clear that your genius is blatantly obvious yet hard to explain.
I stroll towards the champagne.
"Whats wrong? Am I being too plain?”
Your words hit like a train, causing intolerable pain.
The letters you manage to tie together tend to intoxicate my brain.
But I have promised myself that I would be nothing but honest, even in vain.
So I whisper affectionately to you in order to explain,
"Your words often remind me of acid rain."  
The reasons for your sentences are rarely found down the drain.
Except maybe to precipitate folks a great deal of pain.
Your voice sounds nothing like music
Lauren Grace Jan 2018
I struggle with the seatbelt in your car.
You express passionately,
"You'll have to stay with me forever."
You don't understand how much it frustrates me that I love you.
Because I know the whole unadventured world lays ill at ease outside your smeary windows.
But the safe sentiment of your vehicle leaves me wrestling with myself.
To be free or to be unassailable.

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