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 Aug 2024 Syd
Mary Huxley
Maybe
 Aug 2024 Syd
Mary Huxley
To be loved is to be known,
And maybe one day,
I'll be loved right
 Aug 2024 Syd
Jeremy Betts
I'd rather be alone
Than to be this lonely
With someone beside me
I'd much rather be
Just me only
Till it's just me and my headstone

©2024
 Aug 2024 Syd
Jeremy Betts
Love me or hate me
Both have shaped me
I'm nothing more
I'm nothing less
Than what you see directly
With all honesty,
It's more than a philosophy
When I say "no matter what is tossed at me,
The good, the bad, the ugly,
It all now rolls right off of me"

©2024
 Aug 2024 Syd
Valentine
doll face
 Aug 2024 Syd
Valentine
endlessly she looks on
lashes never flinching
no lids weighed by metal
to blink as you rock her
imaginary tears to fall

a little box freshly made
smells of melted plastic
made by wrinkled hands
with eyes shut tight
droplets soiling the exterior

the night her wisp of a candle
dimmed and turned to smoke
i held her in my arms
knowing she couldn't hear me
yet still sang that lullaby
the one that played each time
you pulled the string attached
to her back

and when i peaked down at
the window of her entrapment
my weepy eyes reflected on
her cracked porcelain skin
i imagined her mint condition
just like the day
i brought her home
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