Poems from the Last Couple Months

Poems I wrote over the last couple of months but never took the time to transfer:

"You belong with all the wildflowers"

She said to me

"With all the wild and the free"

But freedom was too much for her to give

So she cracked her rifle and then found that she was running from me

She shot me down and caught me in the tall grass waiting below

Unable to see I'd always circled her since the day she began her hunt

Waiting to rest on her arm

The hard was done and fire was zero sum

But the wound baked quick under the sun

I never required a bullet or snare

But found one all the same

The hole in my chest whistles in the wind

A painful reminder 

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While the world sat still,

Nodding quietly

She took in the music and danced erratically in the center of the room

Atop unlevel brick and spill stains

Her hair was short but she flicked it around all the same

Her glasses fought with all their might to cling to her ears and never fell off

I think she knows pain and happiness better than most

Because only somebody who has been truly burned

Knows when she's found her salve and basks in it

Smiles and all

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I think I was built to Go

The world slides under me like slick marble 

And I'm a child racing through the kitchen against his mother's best wishes

I only leave more messes in my wake but I know full well 

Life will call me back soon enough to make me clean them

She always has

So what use is there tiptoeing any longer?

My future is a roll of the dice and mine seem to be weighted

The decisions always seem to follow a pattern

A path

An oath

That they keep quietly

And I laugh on like the only member in the crowd who isn't in on the joke

Twiddling down the grassy plains while barley breathes in the wild

Whispering quietly

With a broken heart and tear-striped smile

Tomorrow awaits