Tag: broken-hearted
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How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
I wonder when Al Green was singing this song, was he thinking what I’m writing now? And how can you mend a broken heart?How can you stop the rain from falling down?How can you stop the sun from shining?What makes the world go round?How can you mend this broken man?How can a loser ever win?Please […]
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Sour Stomach
Sour StomachWhat was saidswallowed upWhat was meantand i have eatenthe sorrow ofyour wordsnow i am full upwith bad feeling
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The Benefit of a Broken Heart
Ahhh yes. My heart has been broken so many times—shattered into irreparable pieces really. But here’s the thing. God said: “It’s FIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNE. All the foolishness. All the mistakes. All the outright dumb living. You was outchea reckless and I oughta let you SUFFER BUT. I’m gonna fix you up. NOT CUZ YOU DESERVE IT OR […]
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Make It Make Sense
It feels quite refreshing to write poems again. And that all I have to say about that. Enjoy.
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My Words
I missed April 30th—sometimes I hit a mental swirl of death, not unlike that horrible grinding of an old laptop that’s on its last leg. It’s these hormones. Meanwhile, I wrote this one quite a while ago, it was inspired by this simple phrase written by someone else altogether, seen below (click the link in […]
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Love and Life Unfair
I lost a meter in this one. I don’t even know if that’s a thing. It just felt right, so I did it. And isn’t that all poetry really is? A feeling that tracks perfectly in the moment? That captures the intensity exactly, like photography with words? That’s the beauty of written language. You decide […]
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Asphyxia.
I breathed in the air of your affectionLungs collapsed and airways coatedIn the dust of what should beDesert lands overtakingThe sunflower that I knowMyself to beIn my heartGaspingAnd there is no place to beBut here dyingUnable to breathe