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A Poets Muse

Out of all these poems I've written of love and longing,

Out of all these years searching in the sea of people,

I still yet to understand how it's possible to have words without a muse

 

I often wonder what it would be like to have a muse without words

I believe it would feel suffocating

As you choke on all the words you long to exhale within your next breath

For a poet to be trapped by words is to be trapped by passion

 

Sometimes my heart swells up so big it walks across a sea of words and sinks into the deepness of the waters

Lost among the clearer beats on land

An abnormality pushed away from love like an ancient curse buried in my skin

One day i'll make it learn to swim rather than let it sink and bathe in sin

 

The question still remains

Would it be better to have a muse and feel like drowning,

Or to have the the words to accompany the lonely?

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Written by
Pyrrha
24 / F / Texas
Published
Jul 16, 2018
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#poet#muse#love#lonely#drowning#secret#sea#ocean#heart#people
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