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This isn't what I wanted.
Hands gripped
Eyes shut.
Keep them, keep them coming.
I said watch me take the nape of your neck with my lips and show you what it is like to have my chest on yours.
Is this what you meant when you said I reminded you of the moon?
How I escape every now and then but when I appear I take your breath away?
Because baby I see how you leave at dawn to chase the sun.
This isn't what I wanted.
His hands tangled in my hair when all I can think about is the last time I saw you
You were standing in that **** doorway, your eyes glistening
I asked you what was wrong
And you told me how you weren't afraid of the dark anymore.
My eyes are to the sky
Staring for life
Eyes are fixed
To affirm your love that’s rife
I want that thumbs up
That will assure my future
I need a renewed faith
For our love to permanently suture
It truly would be wonderful
If we both were slaked
Forever making each other’s hearts happy
And heal the parts that have ached
My time and love has been in vain before
Because of life’s unfair mirage
But if I get the thumbs up
You’ll get more than a corsage
11/21/10
… Isn’t that a crazy story?
Just crazy – me and my friend.
Hello, hello? Babe, are you there?
Oh no! She’s fallen asleep again.
Aw, my cute babe is tired
And she stayed up just for me.
Her eyes got too heavy tonight
Then I guess I’ll just let her be.
I hope I’m in her dreams at night.
I hope she’s somewhere great.
“Hey Sweetie, I’m sorry I fell asleep.”
“Oh no, It’s getting late.”
I’ll talk to you later so you can get your sleep.
You need your energy so turn out the light.
I love you, Babe. Good night, Sweet dreams.
And I’ll see you in mines tonight.
5/27/10
 Mar 2015 Tam Minh Vu
Ottar
Glasses with frames now used to see
Lines on faces not far away, beyond me
And my capability, under fluorescent,
Lights.

These glasses gather spots of rain, doctor
Doctor, there are spots before my sockets
Containing real steel slate blue eyes, go ahead
Whistle if you must.

I will get used to it.

Six foot five in a five foot nine inch frame,
Coached volleyball well without any shame,
Calm demeanor was not required, I was
Tame, not the chair kicking kind.

Did not need glasses then, when oh when is this
Going to end, when either you or the referee,
Whistles.
About superficial me.
She definitely went with me

driving off angry stillnesses
the distinct smell of haybales

blue twilight, silver, clashing dissonance
beneath the sea, engraved for
Nosreme' music and Monet dashes

We collapsed in a heavy embrace
in an attempt at destroying civilization.

Shouting
withholding

dying
us.
 Mar 2015 Tam Minh Vu
Some Person
Me
 Mar 2015 Tam Minh Vu
Some Person
Me
I get your hopes up high,
And then I let you crash
My apology drifts by,
Worthless in the aftermath
 Mar 2015 Tam Minh Vu
Some Person
If my appearance is hard,
Just keep your distance
If I come across friendly,
Run the **** away
 Mar 2015 Tam Minh Vu
Samantha
What are you supposed to do when everyone who is supposed to be bringing you up is dragging you six feet under

What are you supposed to do when you start believing everything they say about you?

What are you supposed to do when they're right?

What are you supposed to do when they're burying me with the dirt of my mistakes and flaws and I don't move to stop them?

What are you supposed to do when  suddenly you can't breath anymore and the light from above is getting dimmer and dimmer by the second?

What are you supposed to do when there is now a grave in the cemetery with a gravestone that has been carved with lies


Beloved
Friend
Daughter
Sister

*She will always be loved
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