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i Apr 2014
today,
someone said your name,
and my heart still aches,
five hours later.
i never want to see you again,
because old wounds will open
up, wounds that have healed
over these past three months.
if i see you again,
i will fall in love with you,
and it would be a lot harded,
and a lot more painful to
fall out of it.
that's why,
i am saying goodbye,
for now,
because i don't know,
what will happen if i
see your face standing
in front of me,
instead of in my mind.
just know,
that i will love you
until i die,
because you stayed the same
person through it all,
and i am the one who changed.

*you appear in my daydreams, dreams
and reality, g.
i just wish you would
stop appearing in my reality,
just in my dreams and daydreams,
because there you are who i
want you to be,
and who i need you to be.
as much as i want to,
i can't see you smile, again.
it will melt me
like last time.
you are the only one
who can get to me,
g.
Shannon Mar 2014
I'd like a sometimes-shallow river.
Just enough to dip my feet in deep until they land on smooth, cold stones.
I'd like a tree to hang a swing on a cliff that hovers over my cold water river.
I'd like a road soft on my wet toes
(moss will do)
-that leads to my swing that hovers over my sometimes-shallow river.
I'd like the mossy path to start at the front of a white wrap around porch
that hugs a cottage of the palest of blue with creaky steps to  my squeaky screen door that opens to my hardwood floors.
My wet footprints will leave ghost steps in my parlor beyond the porch.
I'd not sit in the fine couch that I'd  have only for the company.
I'd like to have some tea to warm me after my swim... I'll drink it in the sunroom
just beyond the white kitchen.
I'd like to see a vase of white daisies with sunshine yellow center white on white on yellow in the pristine kitchen of mine. The daisies-I've picked them fresh,
...From the garden
...that's in the back off my cottage and set them in an old jam jar on a worn-with-love wooden table.
I'll hang my daughter's summer jumpers on a line that runs from the willow tree
(she'll have auburn ringlet curls that gleam in the sun as she dances through the drying sheets)
-to the cherry blossom tree that I'd like to think would be right just below my bedroom window (so I'd smell them in the morning when I'd like to think of me yawning and stretching in a bed of pale pink lace and soft wide pillows)
I'd like to think the cat would meow and he would pet her lovingly.
I'd like to think he'd be kind to animals and to me.
Perhaps handsome with his crooked smile.
I'd like to think we grow old here. And grow happy.
And the children. Oh how the children have grown, lives of their own now.
I'd like to think we can dip our feet in that sometimes-shallow river, not that they are older and settled and it's just him and I.
Now that all the years have lovingly passed with ease.
I'd like to think.
Yes. I'd like to think so.

Sahn 4/30/14
it's funny what pieces you love as the writer, i love river rocks. for me, it's that piece of it you hold onto when you feel like all of your hard work is for nothing. it's that small part inside of you that keeps propelling you forward.

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