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You do not understand,
I have never known love
I have had many lovers
But none of whom have loved me
Nor have I ever loved in return.

You do not understand
You puzzle me
With you, I am like a child learning to walk
Learning to speak
This is all a foreign language to me.

You do not understand
I am afraid.
 Jan 2016 Violet Moradoe
Audrey
The prelude to a bruise
Is the loving gleam in your eyes
Feral glint boiling up from
Wild meadows and forest lingering on the edge of
Forgotten
Conception is the heavy, hot second of contact.
Searing through me with a gasp and
Cry of thanks
Your touch sows the seeds of violets and morning glories
And red, red roses, thorn-***** freckles
Flowers blooming across my back, my thighs, my throat
Grow me up from your sheets, lavender and larkspur wrapping around my ankles,
My ribs a spray of hyacinth, hydrangea flourishing on the crests of my hips,
Wrists encircled in verbena,
Delphiniums blossom on my throat
Planted by your hands, your teeth
Gardens of your admiration remembered on the canvas of my skin
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In seclusion my greatest delusion is that I am missed,
That I lie somewhere of importance on somebody's checklist,
But this I know is false, I am a passing lingering at most,
At least I fear that happiness is gained by my absences to grateful hosts,
And guests who need not endure me,
A night of bliss for those who never saw me,
And the fell and fallen dreams I held of my importance crash heavy and fast,
My stomach dips as I sink and the pit of my stomach yearns to change the past,
To speak more or to erase trespassing words that led to my falter,
To not be tarnished by the thousand things I wish to alter.
I hear the joy, I hear the words of kin and sharing,
And how I wish I could be with them and to be a part of caring,
But I fall somewhere between normality and the most bizarre,
I have aimed for friendship before, but too often shot too far,
I am left as an arrow, my head stuck away from where I long to be,
With nothing but knowledge that the target is now far from me,
This may just be all chaos, I may be liked and this may be worry,
But I can never know really either way, so I shall simply say, I am sorry.
It is sad that I no longer know the order of when these were written. My numbers simply reflect the order I counted them when I collected all the pages.
Been lost so long it feels like home
Been high so long it feels like down
But that's alright
Yea, it's okay
Down here
We all live this way

I steal and I rob for the things I've got
Until they're stolen from me
Mostly I rob to pay for dope
A piece of oblivion in place of hope
But that's alright
Man, it's okay
We live and die this way

I'm losing my teeth
And my lips are cracked
My face looks as though
It's made of wax
I'm thin enough to walk through walls
And I can't ever remember walking tall
Still, it's alright
yea, it's okay
It'll always be this way

                                      By Phil Roberts
It's midnight soon
So I'm off to bed to read
May all of your dreams
Make you smile in your sleep

                                    By Phil Roberts
the last time we saw each other
I was a mess

and you never got to see the person I was after that


you just gave up
that I was a cocoon and that the butterfly had perished inside
and might never come out.


but those wings are bright orange and purple

and I don’t really miss you at all.
Dec 13th, 2015
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