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Tiger Striped Jan 2019
he was the art
of deception
of deftly crafted artifice
of reading between the lines
he was the art
of speeding cars
of lightning
of roaring flames

but you
honey, you are art
of a different kind

you are the art
of the first light of dawn
of the stars winking in the inky night
of the sun showers on saturday afternoon
you are the art
of drizzling rain
of cold coffee and creamer
of simplistic precision
i could marvel at you for days
Tiger Striped Jan 2019
i want to read you
cover to cover
but for the first time
i find it so difficult
to read
so often i have tried
to copy you down
but my pen and paper
do not know the words
that fit you
the way you deserve

i want to hear you
beginning to end
so often i have tried
to find the song
that sounds as sweet as you
but the notes and rhythms
cannot compose a melody
that fits you
the way you deserve

i want to see you
frame to frame
every brushstroke and hue
that are ingrained
in your composition
so often i have tried
to paint your lovely temperament
but this paintbrush and canvas
cannot quite capture a picture
that fits you
the way you deserve

my fruitless attempts at replicating
the art that is you
have only taught me
that in the end
it is solely
reality
that fits you
Tiger Striped Jan 2019
be careful
near the fire
for i can see your heart
on your sleeve
and neither fire
nor gravity
nor time
will stop
to save you
and it is far too easy
to lose your balance
so if you are not convinced
by my words
then please believe
these burns
on my heart
Tiger Striped Jan 2019
i clawed out
my eyes
so i would cry
no more
so i could finally see
everything
you weren't
and i will never
be able to see
anything
the way i used to
Tiger Striped Jan 2019
she
she is soft.
so some will see her
and long to hold her in their hands
to skim her surface
others know
she is breakable
bendable
movable
malleable
some will see that she is soft and stretch her
until she silently screams
for sweet solitude again
so see her softness and
show her some sympathy
Tiger Striped Jan 2019
you are not
the sun
you are not
the moon
you are most certainly not 
the earth
you must learn
as i did
(when you were once my whole world)
you are a star
yet
you are one 
of seven billion

the day you realize
that humans
are so carefully crafted
so delicately designed
so infinitely intricate
will be the day 
you start to treat them
the right way
Tiger Striped Jan 2019
a broken heart
is the look on her face
as she showed him
her heart
and immediately
realized
he was looking at someone else

for so long
his rhythm
was all that her heart
listened to
and eventually
it forgot
how to beat on its own
a broken heart
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