Tag: dreams
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Every Time, For Him
It was easy to get caught up in the minutiae, easy to think of what she did, day to day, as the important stuff, when in fact it was the overarching pattern she’d wanted to accomplish. She didn’t do it for herself. She didn’t do it for anyone that might end up saved or grateful.…
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Five Ways Of Looking
I. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder at the forks in the road. Paths not taken. Discoveries not made. How would they have turned out? No different than anyone else looking back on their lives, but I feel infinitely ill-prepared to face my own demons. II. I keep you at my back, your sword at…
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Always at the pen
Men with white hair men with dark suits men with white roses with stems six to eight feet long. Each bundle of flowers looks like a body carried with reverence, up the steep hill. Someone, somewhere in the procession drops a pen. Things step, and then start again. A whitehaired man in a suit throws…
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Alike
We make monsters with our love, we turn the world against itself. We craft nightmares with our dreams, our personal successes come from the deaths of others. You and I, we are alike, we are cut of the same cloth, and merely sewn with different threads. Tags: dreams, failure, monster, monsters, nightmares, poem, poems, poetry,…