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Amanda Kay Burke
Poems
Dec 2019
Pride And Possessions
I throw comments to the wind
Ignorance keeps them afloat
I no longer take to heart
******* gliding from your throat
Your words grow weak
They wear thin
Confidence becoming strong
Don the realization that
Your home is where we don't belong
Insults get scattered like leaves
Falling from bare branches
Thoughts flow from your mind
Never-ending negative avalanches
Ashes I have been buried under
Remains of each mistake
Not charred hiding places but a jail
Out which I must break
Gotta keep from accumulating
Passive movements difficult to avoid
Hit walls hardest speeding fast
Crash like earthbound asteroids
It's great you are switching directions
Patterns easy to accurately predict
Mild
Temperate
Always fair-weathered
Around us come unhitched
You loved us once..
Has that gone?
Distracted by vultures' dying food
Rumors
Carcasses of gossip they feed on
Believing tails they allude
We are doing good
We are just fine
Have a job and a roof overhead
Everybody underestimates what we can do
By 30 we'll probably be dead
I anticipated this thoughts arrival
It still doesn't feel quite real
Stuff packed in bags and boxes
Across the porch surreal
We'll take pride and possessions
Say farewell spread with awkward "ums"
Mumbling how one day soon
We will spend some time that never comes
Taking a break from the challenge
#life
#parents
#inlaws
#pride
#possessions
#mom
#farewell
#spread
#awkward
Written by
Amanda Kay Burke
29/F/Alaska
(29/F/Alaska)
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