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Caitlin 2d
i am so in love with the other
but it does not know me--
as i sit and watch it dance
somehow right here
somehow beyond me
a fluttering love letter
that i find myself grasping for
reaching
for a single thread
a thread of other for my own.

i am so in love with the other
that i could not stay away--
once i found it
once i had it
folded gently in my hands
delicate petals and blustering wind
balking, straining, leaping away
but i found it and i had it
an other i could keep,
an other for my own.

i am so in love with the other.

i am so in love with the other
but the other, one day--
was not quite so other
instead quite so the same
and the blazing tendrils of fire
the heaving swells of salt spray
the things that i coveted, watched, adored--
they vanished so suddenly
as the other, my other
was no longer so other.

i am so in love with the other
that in a panic--
a confluence, a whirlwind of fear--
i tore myself apart
shredded the weaving, shattered the glass
i cannot have the other
or other it is not
so i threw it away, left it behind
stole glances as i ran
wishing
desperately wishing
to have the other as my own.
So, while I'm here broken & ******                                                           ­                     
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Mascara smeared; she still looks pretty                                                           ­ 
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Even with that smile in her eyes                                                            
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  That ***** is the devil in disguise                                                         ­         
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She took my love & my pride                                                            ­                      
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Now every day, I die inside                                                           ­               
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Puffy faced & pouting mouth                                                            ­              
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She shows you what love's about                                                            ­
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She was a habit you couldn't quit                                                            
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  It was me you chose to forget
For all the other women out there.
Corazón cálido y pequeño,
brinda a la chica de antaño,
para sanar lo que fue dañado,
por un pasado ya olvidado.

La soledad la cubría,
una oscuridad sin salida.
Su carisma, como brisa,
daba a su amada alegría,
aunque no era correspondida.

Chica herida y desconfiada,
se alejaba, no era abrazada.
Aun así, ella adoraba
los recuerdos de su aliada.

Una amistad de tantos años,
atada a sueños ya lejanos,
de aquella aliada distante,
que quedó en su horizonte errante.

Pero ella tomó su mano,
y borró todo lo insano.
Tocó su corazón con calma,
y limpió su mente del drama.

A su lado decidió quedarse,
sin importar los desplantes
de su chica de antaño,
con su alma hecha de telarañas.

¡Oh, recuerdos congelados!
La chica del pasado
dio su primer paso
y se quedó a mi lado,
dejando atrás el daño.

Temor de volver a sentir
sin esa “aliada” junto a mí.
Pero ella no es como antes,
no es la sombra de alguien distante.

Ella es dulce, como el anís,
con dulzura que no se ve,
pero que al probarla una vez,
queda en el alma, hecha raíz.

Aprendió a cuidarla
para que nunca fuera dañada,
como lo hizo su “aliada”
con la chica abandonada.
Bevan Rees Sep 2024
morning I wake and
before I sense life
I sense you.
in these moments
before the dreams steal out
and the parade of fears and hopes and lists marches in, we
are
enough.

my hands reach out fingerprinted
with memories of your geography:
the aspect of your spine,
the quake of your heart,
the heat in your skin in the dark
rising and falling as you breathe
Yes
And
Yes.

but I do not touch you yet.
the way first silent light of day
bends over you and

stares -

I know you are not mine alone.

I share you
with divinity and science and galaxies
and music and gravity and Now;
and the wind that lifts the branches of our hearts
with sighs.

still, I am a little greedy.
I am a little in love.
I cannot hide the joy
that cracks my face
as I stretch across the world of our bed
and meet your skin.
all I know pours into this instant:
a muscle shifting, breath quickening,
your eyes opening slowly like
planets escaping eclipse
as you roll over lazily
and smile,

‘hi’.
Jeremy Betts Mar 2024
If you gotta pick one over the other
Go with the other
Because if it was the one
There wouldn't be another

©2024
David Hilburn Jun 2023
Rose redoubt
Rose few, in the hate we fed
Rose acts, when charisma is a pout
Rose timid, with a live for all ahead

Round eyes of decorum, vice in a wandering hope
Let to take, a tryst of potential...
Long if tooth, a wholesome day to arrive with our own
Here is my naivete, and a steads sulking breeze so beautiful...

When the world is rounder for a secret asking, to fulfil...
Promise me, a livid course, a golden truth
To the wanted more, when we are a soul of will
The tone of our voice, becomes the drama and decency of accepting youth?

Sophistication in a moment alone, with the weight of the world
Seemingly not, before the needs of others, worth is a means to amends...?
And the coltish example of the future, a repose of justness so early
That a miracle in the form of a wish, is a simplicity we lend?

Tales of the reach, the romance of curious senses
And the heart of essence, we know even will...
When boding hours are to be, the callous works of a world come to ends
With a handful of what miracles were, a common where to the liberty of silence, so real
What so wrong with a door knocked by a time with no bitterness; lies or lovers?
Shofi Ahmed Aug 2021
One half
is one in two.

The other half
is one’s dream
comes true!
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