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Perfect Love

Love is concrete Poured smooth Laid out flat Hardened by time It slides beneath Singed in fire Yet unscathed Naked and afraid It crawls forward To be comforted Safely ensconced In angels’ wings Transparently thin Yet strong as iron Clutched by hands Scarred by time And facsimile By a near-love A straight shot That went … Continue reading Perfect Love

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Dusty Feet

The road stretches on Through shallows and shoals An imitation of life Fascinating to follow Complex in detail With no end in sight They walk with dusty feet Trudging blindly on Wishing for redemption In a world of lies Soles cracked and bleeding With limping gaits They march onward To the promised land Armed with … Continue reading Dusty Feet

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Settling

She sits sideways Fragile as dust Waiting to dissipate If the wind shifts Tears dry from time Slipping swiftly past While dreams fade Replaced by settling Deep inside her bones Where love died And she was born From its ashes These charred ruins That decide her fate Cool in desert air Detached like his voice … Continue reading Settling

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Subtly Feathered

Love is complicated An intricate thing Subtly feathered Taking to the air Like a hurricane Before it explodes Love is emotional A conflagration On the verge of igniting In reds and blues At the boiling point Then spilling over Love is contradictory An exercise in pain Wrapped in velvet Sealed with a kiss Just like … Continue reading Subtly Feathered

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Bullet Proof

The glass sees both ways An invitation to stare But never sight unseen Hatred thick like smoke Solidifying the bond This overwhelming need To be better than Instead of inferior Though I know better The judgement scales Finding me light as air I know she sees through me Past glass and skin Through bone and … Continue reading Bullet Proof