Time in yesterday’s space
reopens the healing heart today.
Fill
An empty heart
leaves room to fill.
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Razor
He saw the rust on the razor
as a metaphor of an aging life
untouched and unloved.
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Another
It took another beautifully broken soul
to understand him.
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Alone
He turned off the light
not because he wanted darkness
but because the light had become it.
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Conditions
He fell without a sound
from that family place where
love was never meant to last.
a conditional place that
left him empty
from what they couldn’t give.
love
Something he heard of,
something he’s seen
something he never felt
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before
before your words became bruises,
before your hands were a weapon,
before my shirt lost its white,
and before tears were my food,
you were my father
and i was your son.
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ashes
in the ashes of clipped wings
he kept his love of feathered fragment remains
hidden where no light would find it.
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Splinters
He saw where the tears of wine
had left their stains of disappointment
deep inside
the splinters of a broken table.
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Unfinished Souls 