She claimed to be nameless

A void empty space

She thought she could be invisible

A child of darkness

But oh

How she was wrong

She is an arrangement of

Color and laughter

Beauty and light

She thinks she is as fragile

As a baby’s wrist

But to me she is stronger than steel

She hesitates when

She sees her reflection

As if she found a

New flaw to add

To h...

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I am sorry it must come to an end

But darling my life has only just begun

We have made some memories

Us dancing on the teardrops of desperate lovers

Each second together a lifetime full of ignorance

We were young and foolish

Naïve to reality

Turning our backs against probability and chance

Out calculating the universe

Out smarting fate

But this is not m...

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I did not think someone else would want to get her cartilage pierced who was also named N.

I thought I was the only person who liked T but then I found out that everyone else in the grade did.

I never thought I would meet someone else who also had a younger brother named J.P.

I thought I was the only person I knew who went to therapy.

I don’t really think I’m alone in anything –

Whi...

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She loved him - or,

At least, she thought she did

She didn’t start crying until she sat down

On the metal bleachers

They made her legs

Sticky and cold

It started to rain - of

Course

It only made her cry more

The park was a 3 minute walk from her house - but

It took her 7

It was a 15 minute drive for him, but

It took him 30

She sat there waiting

I...

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They call us the perfect couple

You, the Prince Charming

I, the damsel in distress

You saved me from my tower

I would have been nothing without you

That’s what you said

Ironic how Mr. Proper doesn’t know shit

About manners

While you heroically climbed the towering prison of cracked stone and thick vine

The door was open

You yanked me out of my chamber

And brou...

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I push my reading glasses with my index finger. The rim grazing the tip of my nose. The cows grazing the tips of the grass. I watch a squirrel jump from tree branch to tree floor and scurry away with the agility and speed I lost too many years ago. I glance back to the crumpling, fading paper I hold between my clammy palms. Furrowing my brow, I try to make out the once black ink turned grey. I que...

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The most beautiful kind

Are the most dangerous

Standing transfixed

As she tears you apart

Ripping out the roots you had built

And the walls you had planted

She leaves you in awe

As she glides away

A grey and blue trail

Of beauty and pain

And you realize why all

Hurricanes are named after people

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How does a blind man, 

black man, 

orphan, 

born in disproportion, 

make his prospects 

better than his card decks? 

Let’s take a trip into his past life 

without life

while he tries to save his brother 

and brave his mother. 

Stay alive! 

He screamed at his younger. 

Stay alive! 

I need you my brother. 

But, no matter how hard he tried, 

he d...

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Before you, I was nothing.

An empty casket,

A tree with no fruit.

I lived but had no life,

I smiled but had no happiness.

Awaiting my fate was all I had ahead.

But you, Oh! You darling,

You made me new again.

Your twinkling eyes,

Your smooth soft hands,

Were something I longed to see.

I would break my bones to heal your pain.

I would cross the horizon ...

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I fight for our country

While you stay behind

I risk my own life

For your kids and mine

You praise me and bless me

Making sure I am safe

And I feel so loved

Just as much as I love this place

We work side by side

As a team we are one

We are best friends, teammates

You trust me with a gun

But as soon as I say

That I was born a she

Everything c...

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I hate to fish

I find that it is a bore

But I know someone who does

His eyes light up at the movement of water

His laugh engulfs all other noise

He smells of fresh, clean air

As if he captured the wind for cologne

His fingers glide over the water

Salt staining his forearm

He twinkles when he gets a fish

I twinkle because of him

I hate to fish

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