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Waiting Games
You are bright as sunlight, perfect in my eyeline, reflected halo around your soft hair, in a maze of mirrors, truth told on hopeful glass. You kiss me softly, as I watch so many memories of us, that have yet to happen, far in front of my eyes, I stare, intently, as if it will…
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Dream a Little Dream Of Me
I’m close to sleep, desperate to wake up in your dreams, intoxicated by your energy, wrapped around your fingers like a silk ribbon. Purged of my purity, I am a portrait of passion, smitten kitten, helpless, held in your gaze, in your grasp, gasping for air, gripped in a kiss that consumes me completely. Haunted…
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Signing My Life Away
Leaning from my Grandma’s car, biro to a headshot that I had grown to hate, I let my fingers follow the same path they have learned so well, preparing for twenty three years, but never quite being sure I had nailed it. The way you stared was like a sweet kiss to my soul, innocent…
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The Joys Of Motherhood
I hold my daughters in my hands, cold and full of trauma, like their mother, a messy scrawl that tries to be a signature on their faces, in case one day I am worth something, and they are too. I just hold them, eyes closed, trying not to feel the blood dripping from the worn…
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I Deserve To Be Healed
You can find me in the forest, soaking up what little sun breaks through the branches. I left a part of me back in London, as well as the beach streets of Blackpool and Barcelona, sometimes, the tiniest sliver still lingers in the imaginations that I cannot repossess myself from. I am trapped, in ways…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 