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Straw Poll
Is fate kind? Is my life decided? Am I helpless? Hoping for the best, but just a person that life happens to? You decide. They decide. Life decides. I just wait.
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The Beginning Of The End
I haven’t slept. I spent the night, at the mercy of memories, how my miserable mind contorts them. I am comforted, by the old, “No news is good news”. Carrying my anxiety, to my altar, empowered but exhausted, I kneel before the rising sun, as if you are at its core, my tears are on…
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1 Day
Maybe I hold onto you, long after you’ve left, so that I’ll always feel you’re mine, never having to accept that I’ll lose you again. It’s easier to ignore the reality, of life and it’s sickening cruelty, if I just close my eyes, hearing my inner monologue in your voice, kinder tones, kinder times, no…
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2 Days
Thirty four times, I’ve been tortured, Stockholm syndrome, grateful Gitmo girl, taping up my sanity, until the twenty fifth, when I say to myself, “Surely, today.” Appropriate amnesia, I forget, under the new moon, the promises we made, maybe they’re just things that people say, when they’re infatuated. Once upon a time, you told me,…
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3 Days
I dreamed of you last night. Diamond ring. Rose quartz rhetoric. Someone said that you were sad inside, and I didn’t understand, because my heart is at home, on my sleeve, on my cheek, on my lips. The waking world was waiting, but I wasn’t in a hurry, watching your nervous negotiation, with the future,…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 