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Revenge, Love & other Revelations a poem collection by CM
Says the Tortoise to the Hare
Revel
In your glory
For it
Will be
Short lived
-
Revenge
Pretty porcelain dolls
Perfect size
And
Complexion
How I wish
You
Would
Break
-
Breakable
We are like clay
Changing form
Until we become molded
Glazed and heated
Made fragile
By our permanent conditions
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Who we are
Who we are
Is our own concern
Buried deep
Are the scars we hide
It keeps us from ourselves
And from others
Who we are
Keeps us second guessing
As our fears run wild
Who we are
Keeps us lock
Inside
Only we can
Save ourselves
From who we are
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Question
Perfectly secure
An imperfection to behold
Will you rise to meet
The challenge
Or just enjoy the chase?
-
Hookworm
If I give it words
It will dissipate
I’m reading too much into this
I need a distraction
Somehow my thoughts
Wander again
Back to you
How did you get
Under my skin
So quickly?
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Lost Lover
I heard your breath on my window pane
Take a ticket
Take a seat
It’s happening all over again
I felt your lips on mine
Your fingers tangled in my hair
The scent of your cologne
Warm and soft like I remember
Revisiting spirit
Haunted memories
Of steamy car windows
And rainy nights
Kissing you makes everything better
Your words soft and kind
Haunting me forever
I heard your breath on the window pane
My soft spirit visiting again
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The Benefits of Plastic Surgery
Vain
Tan goddesses
Litter the street
One day
You too
Will be old
Wrinkled
And
wither
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Honesty
I once worshipped
You
Pretty porcelain goddess
Now
I wish to throw you
Bruised
Broken
And bleeding
To the sharks
-
Just another skeleton
Definitely defining you
its indefinite
To label you and put you in a box
That’s the only way to make sense
of this
Defining the shadows that you case
On the wall
In the middle of the night
So I’m not afraid
And my imagination doesn’t run amuck
It’s all I can do
To keep myself away
It’s all I have now
To keep myself sane
Defining you
Labeling you
And putting you
In a box for storage
