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caress
this heart was safe
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until
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your solo
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handled it
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bled on it
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cracked it out
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of its prison /
1m
Nov 10, 2025
breath and blood
bone collects wisdom becomes wisdom
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it holds upright becomes upright
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bone creates and re-creates
1m
May 20, 2025
liar liar
decades after the ceremony
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truth washed the plaque of fantasy
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from my romanced brain
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espoused
1m
May 16, 2025
the bread of heaven
leavened and unleavened
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it dropped to earth from
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the heavens
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to nourish and feed
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nourished t
1m
Mar 11, 2025
nesting souls
daddy holds me in his heart
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though he has gone on
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I hold him in my soul
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though I am still here
1m
Feb 25, 2025
quest
I wonder when
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the puzzle that I am
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will be completed
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where is the missing piece?
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is there a
1m
Feb 15, 2025
why I love this country
it is writ on my heart
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the sacrifices
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we’ve made for her
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the blessings
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received for defendin
2m
Feb 15, 2025
the pain of no
I watch as you walk across campus
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with your new love
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not me
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anymore
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I’m treading water
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kee
1m
Jan 25, 2025
golgotha
it is the deepest teaching of
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them all
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that a sacrifice must come
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before the blessing
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yet ma
1m
Nov 3, 2024
waiting
this human life seems
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always to be crawling
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each moment justified
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by
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anything but God
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its
1m
Sep 10, 2024
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