young and looking for a relationship…
he threw people away
as easily as he chewed gum,
good only while the flavor lasted.
now older, he realized
those people who would have been a good thing
have moved on and spit him out.
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Tag: poetry
tango
watching a slow tango between
two men sharply kicking up the dirt,
he tried to hide what he felt …
but the tear in his eye
spoke the truth of what he saw.
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halfway
sharing what was important to him
he noticed halfway through the conversation,
the crack in the wall where the light shined through
had gone dark.
so he changed the conversation
away from what his heart needed to express
and directed it back to the crack in the wall
where the light shined again.
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strand
walking down the road of sanity,
he happened to looked back and was shaken to see
the road was really only a narrow strand of hair.
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swimming
wading in the shallow waters of his thoughts,
he observed the clouds
turn to shades of demon gray.
watching them cross the sun,
they blocked out the light with silence
leaving him cold and alone at the edge of
his swimming pool of lies.
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eating
eating alone at the table,
the voices in his head were feeding him
aggressive spoonfuls of toxic choices,
so he’d choke on a bad decision.
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calloused
from calloused hands and an aching soul,
he crossed his fingers
and released the stones of life
he hoped
had taught him how to fly.
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1979
from the secret desires he wrote on the page
to the secret requests he kept in a prayer,
he had to runaway
to find the answers he couldn’t find at home.
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shoes
unsuccessful in suppressing his childish fears,
he dressed himself
in a shirt of bruised emotions
and shoes laced with doubt.
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built
feeling he was built for blame
and not constructed to fit into the arms of love,
he didn’t know how
to fix what was broken inside.
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Unfinished Souls 