Tag: Relationships
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cold
We close watch the young and the old Focus on each fluttering eyelid Suspending our fingers over their lips Calling to their warmth against our cold. Hugging our solitary arms enfolded Ignoring the ever encroaching deep While they embrace approaching sleep Knowing warmth shines beyond the ageing cold.
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as will you
You will weigh me and find me wanting As I did them. You will see say and try more than loving As I did them. Until the generation leapt calls you to see Your children’s children now set free Until you become the parent seeking Out the hidden children’s suffering. You will weigh them and…
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love left alone
If I caught and kept love It would be no love at all Love left dying at last grasp Dust and leaves floating in its wake. If I fought for and left love I would be the one to fall Love lying faithless hope left to clasp At emptiness cleft to my selfish ache. If…
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Opposites Detract
Of course you truly love that other. And expect them to live for you completely Until they morph into that new another The one that doesn’t care even proportionately. Yet think upon this! That bloody minded other Knows full well that living for another Is their one and only true saviour Why? It’s in their…
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Polite Ignorance
Of course one could endure the sullen silence Of words spoken With no listening echo Penned notes reposted But never returned An unending slow suffocating absence. Of course one embraces the silky acquiescence Of promises made Then never redeemed Accidentally overlooked But deliberately forgotten Polite ignorance too is a sullen silence.
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The Most Difficult Part
Which was the most difficult part Was it the bone-breaking pain Or the striving to heal my heart Was it secretly nurturing a love apart Or leaving yet then deciding to remain Which was the most difficult part Was it before, during and after our time apart Setting aside efforts spent without pain Or the…