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 May 2013 Rosaline Moray
Kate
hurt
 May 2013 Rosaline Moray
Kate
Like a child
I forget
the times you hurt me
high on the rush
wont this last
forever?

oh but those eyes I love
I have seen them turn cold
and your slight smile
has been hidden from me
I forget about your sting
the ache from not saying the right thing
 May 2013 Rosaline Moray
Kate
Lies.
 May 2013 Rosaline Moray
Kate
I'm happy for you
No truly I am

She seems lovely
Did you meet through mutual friends?

Oh she likes that TV show as well?
how perfect, how quaint.

Look how she looks at you
I'm sure you saw this coming

I can't wait to get to know her
I'm sure we both will be really fast friends.
 May 2013 Rosaline Moray
Kate
I'm sorry for all the small talk
but I reach for anything
grasp at all straws

I miss you
I miss you
I...
A man enters a flower shop
and decides on some flowers
the florist wraps them up
as the man puts his hand into his pocket
to find the money,
the money to pay for the flowers
but at the same time
suddenly
he places a hand over his heart
and falls

As he falls
the money rolls around on the floor
and the flowers fall
with the man
with the money
and the florist stands there
as the money rolls
as the flowers ruin
as the man dies
it's obviously all very sad
and she really should do something
this florist
but she doesn't know how to go about it
she doesn't know
where to start

There are so many things to do
for this dying man
these ruining flowers
and this money
this rolling money
that won't stop.
 May 2013 Rosaline Moray
Angie
There she sat, alone and in the dark.

Holding her life tight in her hands as its essence drifted.
She held it tight so it wouldn’t fall apart.

The man stood beside her, looming over like a shark.
On his face there was not a mark.
His hands were rough, and overused.
His touch it caused her pain.

Her life was slipping in and out of her hand.

The man his face was cold, without any emotion.
He took her life in his hands and laughed.
His laugh was mean and cruel
He wanted her to feel the ultimate pain
At first he took little pieces then larger

Her life was falling apart before her eyes
She grew weak with every piece he took
She gave her life one last look before the last piece fell into the unknown
It crumbled, without a trace.
No more life, nothing left

He took the bad and the ugly. He took the good and the pretty
He spat in her face as she screamed and cried

She was begging him to give her back what was rightfully hers
The door shut behind her and again she was in the dark
Tears rolling down her face, in her eyes she was a disgrace

In his world there were no worries
He held his head high without and shame

How could you … she screamed with pain.
He would not answer.

He was long gone never to be seen again.
Only to be remember as a true man

She is still there alone in the dark.
She is still fighting, to find her life, with the small scraps that remained.
Ina's pregnant, I am bored
Grace and Eric mute behind me
On the street two floors below us
Standing water, hissing tyres.

Two more hours of this, I'm thankful.
Endless meetings, glassy eyes
Homeward bound on lighted transport
Rain-streaked windows, dark outside.

Weekend coming, confused feelings
Clean the flat and iron the shirts
Talk to no-one, poolside vigil
TV meal and early night.

Is this it? The final curtain
Did I know this at that time?
Regardless of the closing sentence
No repeating, only rhyme.
I was made for abandonment.
Like a sea turtle left in the sand to hatch on her own and bravely voyage into the ocean,
Escaping her idle life in a pure, white shell for a treacherous journey into a polluted, dark ocean.
She will encounter beasts who will attempt to postpone her self-actualization.
She's alone, but brave.
She knows what she must do
With the sound of the ocean and the light of the moon as her only guides.
She pauses at the shoreline,
The tide comes in,
Sweeps her off her feet and welcomes her in a beautiful embrace.
However...
I am still struggling with the beasts who promised me an easier life
Away from the mysterious ocean;
Idle in their arms.
They led me astray before I realized that while the ocean tides change, they follow the beautiful, definite pattern of the moon.
She retched her skull in two
brain stem looking
like roots in her hand.
Nerve endings cooking in the cool,
blood in one big pool
up to her knees.
asking, begging, please

Let me throw
this into some dark pit.
I have dug for years and years.
So I might forget
the way your thumbs felt
and seemed to melt
away my skin,
bruises, scars,
and etched things
revealing budding wings.
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