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 Aug 2013 madeline may
hkr
baby girl
 Aug 2013 madeline may
hkr
when you are old enough to speak
do not call love
a mental disease
do not resent it, do not fight it
because love is pure
and love is good
it's only when you throw
life into the mix
that it becomes toxic.
i discovered a new belief.
the tendencies creep back
like the sun at dawn-
truly numb and
passive to their cries
they fall to the cold floor
limp and dull and quiet
leaking from new orifices
and taking their light with them
while my head spins
a complicated tapestry
on a broken loom
red string
angry and burning
screaming with no end
in the dark while i
cling to fleeting feelings
and clean
the remnents of theirs
with a snap i'm sent tumbling
struggling
can't find
air water food shelter
my head pounds
my eyes ablaze
and skin tight across
my eyes and temples
when the light hits
it's over and i
awake-
numb
It’s funny that as a writer I trust actions more than words - perhaps it’s because I know they’re used with manipulative intention - they’re meant to bury truth, hide it with sugar-coated, superfluous syntax.
*-lf-
© Leelan Farhan
    August 12 2013
 Aug 2013 madeline may
Morgan
He helps me catch the
words as they fall from my skull
He says
"I like when you use
the sea as a metaphor"

And then he rolls onto his side
Rests his head on his overlapping hands
And closes his eyes...
Eyes as deep as the ocean
And as blue as the
sky reflecting off it

*I'd do anything he ever asked me to
 Aug 2013 madeline may
Morgan
There's nothing more peaceful than the
way your sentences drag on until
they stop making sense just before
you fall to sleep
And there's nothing more beautiful
than the disheveled look
in your eyes when you
first come alive beneath a
Sunday morning's sky
You'll press snooze at least ten
times before you bother to sit up
And I'll sit silently hoping you won't
say you have to leave at all today
Because
Your yawns are contagious,
your tears are too
And I get completely lost
in every single thing you do
 Aug 2013 madeline may
brooke
i suppose that is the end of that.
(c) Brooke Otto

I love you.
 Aug 2013 madeline may
raðljóst
in my sleep my feet walk me to places my eyes have never seen.
they dance under the covers, restlessly waiting for their time to go
*to bring me to a new home
 Aug 2013 madeline may
brooke
gotta stop trying
to win your heart
even though you're

gone.
(c) Brooke Otto

yeah.
 Aug 2013 madeline may
hkr
there are two full cycles of the seasons
and three summers
between us
i'd like to think that when i see you,
there won't be silence
but i have learned from the second spring
that there will be nothing but
a hello, how are you
or a when did you get into town?
to commemorate the winter
we spent together
two full cycles of the seasons ago.
and it never will be.
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