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push and push and push,
but i can't get your name past my lips like a slur.
Is it the fact that I'm admitting? is it the fact that i know its not what I will get?
Mouths gape
Dragging nails
Skin pulled
My hands gripped over their thighs
Skins melds around my hands
Sweet pungent smell becomes bitter the longer it sits on their tongue
Tasting more as I bite into their lip
Chests rise and fall
Tongue outreaching
Grasp for warmth
Their eyes begin to close
Steam waning
Failing to rise
 Oct 31 Matthew Harper
Ejiro
“Nothing you do is awkward
or corny or even cheesy at most
everyone is brought to this earth
to have a great time
and expressing themselves to the fullest
not to worry about the opinion of the person next to them” she told me with a warm smile

I looked up at her for a second
And then realized why I enjoyed her presence
One of my friends told me if I found her awkward but she was such an angel in my eyes
My aims, my goal
My love, my soul
My faith restored
My hope's reward

That's what you mean to me
In literal name and actual deed
For the man who doesn't like poetry :)
 Oct 31 Matthew Harper
Anna
Wind rushes past glass
Tiny cuts I dream drops
Of scarlet
The faster I ran red
Red
Red
Soft light of
Autumn day ,
in sun-shower and memory
and dreaming away .

While humming birds now
in her outstretched hands ,
tell of strange customs
in far away lands .

Where surrounded by every
beast , bird and faun ,
she sings sacred songs
and a new world is born .
 Oct 30 Matthew Harper
Doshi
I wave to the water
To the trees
Foregoing another year gone by
Seemingly stagnant, other than time
Freeing the should-haves and if-onlys
The defeat
I wave to the stones
To the leaves
Acknowledging uncertainties
Repainted as possibilities
Inviting warmth and will-bes
And relinquishing ennui
 Oct 30 Matthew Harper
Sin
She drew on the cigarette
Her ruby lips parted
As the grey smoke danced around in the
Bitter air like an exotic dancer

Sipping on the ice cool Jack
Staring out of the rain soaked window
Wondering if the neon sign
Lit up the sadness now faced

Again another heavy drag
On the cigarette
The tears began to come
For once upon a simple time
She was someone’s moll
 Oct 30 Matthew Harper
Wary
True depth of pain one cannot claim,
Until they’ve walked through sorrow’s flame.
To feel its weight, to understand,
One must be touched by life’s own hand.
You can’t feel or understand the pain unless you go through it.
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