the-lonely-wordsmith
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Don't you have to know?
Don't you have to know?
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I still don't understand why you had to go.
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Was it to soon, or was I too
1m
Feb 2, 2025
There were always signs, I just didn't read them
I knew I lost you in advance
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I can't say I didn't have a warning
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We were sitting on the couch /
1m
Oct 8, 2022
Love
A beautiful verb, now only past tense,
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Felt from that day, to all the years hence,
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From beautifu
1m
Apr 8, 2020
How should love feel?
Should love feel like coming home?
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Like shelter after you roam?
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Like peace and quiet and hope an
1m
Apr 6, 2020
Green.
Do you stare too at the dot of green,
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Wondering why, and what did it mean?
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Are you out there unf
1m
Mar 14, 2020
The Empty Theater
The limelight dims, the curtains fall,
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Unset the stage, we've seen it all.
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The story's told, it'
1m
Mar 14, 2020
Hey
So I say hey, how have you been?
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I tried to stay mad but that isn't my scene.
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I always freak out
1m
Mar 5, 2020
Hurts.
Bloodied knuckles, and a bleeding wrist
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Waves of a feeling, I haven't missed
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I thought I was don
1m
Feb 25, 2020
A new poem, that you'll never read.
I don't write them the way
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I did when I was young,
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And these days I don't
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Show them to no one.
1m
Feb 24, 2020
I won't.
I hope he compares her eyes to endless stormy seas,
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Because I regret writing poems that were anyth
1m
Apr 8, 2019
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