Your father is still your father. Love him and forgive him as a young child.
The way you were in expectant, resolute delight of his arms around you.
Your father is still your father in his audacious crime of falling in love.
I, his Pygmalion’s statue, his muse, his mistress, his little goth whore,
you see me as nothing better than shit on your kitchen floor
before gathering round the ...

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Moon beckons a beacon for the night demon’s path. Comfort strewn by creaks
of cooling corners in the bedroom.  Dutiful goodnight kisses obligate a renewed
commitment to freshly etched, stone set commandments of the marriage rite.

Left alone, he clicks familiar websites, browsing history carefully kept out of sight.
Easing tension transiently until eyes hit on a caress of a photo...

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My brother

called you back

from the edge

of death.

But you were

in so much

pain, and you

had suffered enough.

We said good bye,

My Mother, My sister,

My brother and I.

We held each

other and

we cried.

The day that

you left us.

The day

...

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The boy’s blue eyes shone

Tried so hard to be good

Tall frame was troubled

So easily misunderstood

But something happened

A long time ago

That split his heart

And darkened his soul

He had to feel needed

Wanted and secure

To cover the emptiness

And risk of wanting more

He worked and toiled

To fill the vacuum inside

He crea...

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Look into

my eyes.

The sparkle

you see

in them

is my

love for you.

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Curtains drawn
One sunny morn
A white shadow
On patio door

Since that night
No cry heard
Death knoll subdued
Prey is disturbed

Prophecy or protection
Wisdom or inflection
Your powder down
I cannot clean

A haunting call through the valleys of resentment

Forgive – forgive - forgive

© Katypoetess 2013

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Picked you up

Turned you around

Stroked your feet

Knocked your crown

I looked inside

Took last light

Struck it hard

Flared the night

Burnt the skin

Flame lives within

Bound by Stockholm

Protected from wind

Loyal knights

Play a tune

Of ruined castles

In shallow dune

Didn’t burn away

Like it should

Fue...

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