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  Unborn

  

  By freedomfighter97, Lake Ann, MI

  I feel the beat of your feet Across the loft in soft foot falls. I try not to cry when your eyes connect with mine Because what was sought is forever lost despite how we fought The lies that the life would die in time. Now the new size shoes lie in the corner unworn....
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  In Your Absence

  

  By freedomfighter97, Lake Ann, MI

  Before I sleep to the labyrinth of tarnished blue and wilting green I crave the taste of you –– the slow nibble of citrus fragments penetrating my tongue, sowing the seed of your existence into my taste buds, until it blooms into the orange blossom of your hesitant smile . . . ...
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  Make Me a Sunbeam

  

  By freedomfighter97, Lake Ann, MI

  I sit here in the sunbeams trickling through the frosted glass, only because it is the warmest spot in this church....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I'm Not Yours

  

  By freedomfighter97, Lake Ann, MI

  You say you're scared of losing me, But how can you lose what you've never had? You say you can't live without me, But how can you live without when you've never lived at all? You say I have your heart, But how can I have what you cannot give?...
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  Cotton Candy

  

  By freedomfighter97, Lake Ann, MI

  puffs of sweet fiberglass dissolve into pink crystals on the pinnacle of my tongue. they fall like tickled icicles puncturing the walls of my abdomen. still I consume the addicting substance, permitting my body to slowly commit suicide....