I Admit

I admit . . . I’m never exactly sure what I’m doing.
I admit . . . I meddle, but always with good intentions . . . even if they end up turning sour.
I admit . . . I still want to leave here . . . as comfortable as its become, its not my home.
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she

she wanted more than anything in the world
to believe they would protect her
but gave up,
after one sorry attempt,
at giving them a chance to
she always told herself
she couldn’t tell anyone else
to get support, to be believed
was more than she deserved
when she’s the one who let it happen
she’s read all about herself
in everything from the pamphlets at [...]

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. . .

There is no secret
no spoon
sunset or rain
no poetry
no need

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Goodbye Orion

i am laying on my back in the middle of the gravel road
under the stars
i am watching Orion slowly slip around the edge [...]

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weakness

blood in my mouth, bitten cheek
my mind lets go while I sleep
I see him there, behind my eyes
nothing between us but a young girl’s lies

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flock

a skyfull of my words–
little black ink birds
flitting wrong and right
in and out of sight
I made them with my hands
keeping time with falling sands
in the hour glass I shattered
because I thought time didn’t matter

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Me, Myself

“Do not waste your time, trying to get
back what was taken.” -The Offspring

He wouldn’t let me go . . .

so I let me go . . .

escaped myself

and started fresh

until I missed me

and started searching

in vain

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A Room of One’s Own

I climbed Jacob’s Ladder in search of
I hardly knew what
and found a quiet Room of My Own
the [...]

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