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| + | ==== [[containered pain (poem)]] ==== | ||
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| + | ''For N'' | ||
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| + | my breastbone aches<br> | ||
| + | with containered pain<br> | ||
| + | the new year comes<br> | ||
| + | I cry in vain<br> | ||
| + | all I want<br> | ||
| + | is you again | ||
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| + | ==== [[of happy moments (poem)]] ==== | ||
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| + | happiness is not the sum<br> | ||
| + | of happy moments that have come<br> | ||
| + | nor everything that breaks the numb<br> | ||
| + | shell around my heart, the sum<br> | ||
| + | of smiles, of laughs, of memories made<br> | ||
| + | with family on better days<br> | ||
| + | happiness: a choice I make<br> | ||
| + | regardless of the pain I face | ||
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| + | ==== [[hope splinters (poem)]] ==== | ||
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| + | bones break<br> | ||
| + | porcelain cracks<br> | ||
| + | hope splinters<br> | ||
| + | but grows back | ||
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| + | ==== [[the world is tired (poem)]] ==== | ||
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| + | the world is tired<br> | ||
| + | and aches besides<br> | ||
| + | within me all<br> | ||
| + | the universe hides | ||
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| + | so I can shine<br> | ||
| + | like stars of light<br> | ||
| + | or fade away<br> | ||
| + | the longest night | ||
==== [[sky boats (poem)]] ==== | ==== [[sky boats (poem)]] ==== | ||
Revision as of 16:03, 1 January 2019
Contents
January 2019
1/1/19
containered pain (poem)
For N
my breastbone aches
with containered pain
the new year comes
I cry in vain
all I want
is you again
of happy moments (poem)
happiness is not the sum
of happy moments that have come
nor everything that breaks the numb
shell around my heart, the sum
of smiles, of laughs, of memories made
with family on better days
happiness: a choice I make
regardless of the pain I face
hope splinters (poem)
bones break
porcelain cracks
hope splinters
but grows back
the world is tired (poem)
the world is tired
and aches besides
within me all
the universe hides
so I can shine
like stars of light
or fade away
the longest night
sky boats (poem)
boats to the heavens
skyward fly
I'll see their promise
by and by
the light so brilliant
before my eyes
from the ashes
I might rise
my biggest project (poem)
I'm not the pleasant person
that I used to be
I know my biggest project
is to get to work on me
because my heart is hurting
is the weakest pale excuse
somehow I must conquer
all my follies and misuse
the little stupid things (poem)
I care
about the little stupid things
the things that get under your skin
they seem to carry their wings
take off and fly in my eye
I swat them and keep going by
I care and it hurts and it bleeds
I try to forget all my needs
but sometimes it hurts and it aches
and sometimes it trembles and quakes
a flaw (poem)
I am not a self-promoter
this is stupid of me
it's not a flaw I'm unaware of
I'm not as good at some at writing
or anything really
and I'm not even as good right now as I was
it's not a lack of discipline, a lack of will
the troubles that plagued before do plague me still
I've spent too much of a year fraught and ill
and it seems too much to ask, please love me still
how to bleed (poem)
I have been damaged
I know how to bleed
but not how to staunch up
my wounds or to heed
the firing neurons, the pain in my head
I'm never enough and so trudge on instead
