Sample Poetry:
I haven’t been sleeping well.
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A heavy heart sinks deeper into a bed than could ever be comfortable
Many a night have been spent laying above salt stained satin, Knowing that if I had to, all you are is a few states and 1000 hours of walking away.
The clock chirps it’s ticking song as I wait for my arms to grow long enough to reach you
Even with just a finger tip
I feel you watching behind my head, outside my window.
If only this was the kind that opened.
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Days lost, by now, sucked into the box that sometimes shows me your face
Like leaving the needle full of my drug in my vein long enough that instead my blood begins to pour out.
All the pretty words in the world could never say more than “I miss you.”
The feel of your skin under my hand is more of a heaven than I’d ever need
I live for the now because I know there is no greater paradise than getting to love you by choice
Maybe if I cry enough I can cut through the earth with a river than can bring me to you, but I think the place I’ve chosen is too dry for rivers of such magnitude.
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I alone am not useless, but I am as meaningless as one side of Velcro without its counterpart.
Nothing to stick to
Nothing to touch
Nothing to hold and nothing to hold me
I never felt colder before you than I do now.
Not because your hands feel frigid, but instead because I now know what it is to feel warm.
To one night fall asleep in your arms is to torture the version of me that must do the same outside of them the next.
And it has been 6 nights since I had that privilege, So I haven’t been sleeping well.