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Love without heartache
cannot be love

for true
love

HURTS
Missing them when they are away. Longing to be in their arms. Tis an ache shared that makes it so painful
It would not stop, the drop dripping
Faulty well and I was cornered in
Your eyes, when your love came down.
The gentle rain was a deceiving
Flood.  The softness in your voice
Was dim light bent, on my banishment.

I began to notice the kind indifference,
The doldrum swale, when your love
Came down, was like you were employed
Only— half trying to get along
With me.  My own dulcet music
Crashed in two, she wails a shamed—

Diaphany and darkness from the corner
Room began to grow, when your love
Came down.  The light that moved so dear,
Became a precious ration, it was
A black starvation and I began
To die from tasteless food, sad music,

Fading sun, no expectations—
And laughter meant for others.  I bled
For years on open wounds and I—
Could hear the wind that rails at ones tomb,
When your love came down.
 Mar 2013 Shari Forman
Sora
Sleep
 Mar 2013 Shari Forman
Sora
Sleeping is my safe haven
Not for the reasons you may think though
Daylight rots me from the outside, in
All the chaos is subdued for a while

Sleep is now my oasis
Not for the reasons you may think though
Dreams revive me from the inside, out
All my worries are washed away

Sleeping is my safe haven
Not for the reasons you may think though
I get to be free,
Get to just be unneeded
Not forced to respond to anything

I'm allowed to be a kid,
Something I haven't been
For quite some time
And I realize how much I miss it

Sleep is my oasis
I just lay down
And all the horns and bells go mute and I listen to the crickets
And I can just be gone from the nightmare in which I live in and call my life

— The End —