#pardypoems

felt the scorching rays of that smile.

For just a second there,

the lines were blurred.

Happier days and the hint of chlorine.

There and gone in a blink."

like men, I think they should

control the world because

they make the best friends.

Men can be so rude, dominant,

never open to discussion; men

won't ever listen, don't show

much concern, are basically

selfish, stubborn, won't ever

I stepped on a broken tile

White cracks, but black void

A sound, and I fell into a black

Can't see which way is up now

People walk above me with

Raw rubbed soles telling stories

About having somewhere to be

But I suspect they never get there

nevertheless I write their

unfinished stories on my arms

Wondering where the stones

lead them to fall

Do people watch their step at all

During rush hour when work's

Done? I'm running out of skin

And I still haven't a clue

I tread my lips slowly

wondering, where my words

disappeared in walls and

where my eyes turned blind

I still keep faith that all four sides

won't cave in, tell all my secrets

to the next wanderer who

takes the wrong step

I am clenching my jaws now

Pinching my brows,

every sound the feels

like the beginning of a crack

Maybe, maybe I can live here

if I make this place my own

But I am just waiting, passing time by

Incase this ground swallows

me down too, deserting my attempts

to make another home

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Look at me flying high

After you clipped my wings

And burned them down

To make sure I never dream

I revived the smile

You took away for selfish needs

And my cheeks seem lighter now

I brushed down your

Bullet like words from my skin

Sorrow doesn't linger

Darkness doesn't have a home in my bones

I'm free of remorse, stranger of guilt

Cutting my heart in two

Wasn’t that bad as it had seemed after all

For in tears I understood

The worth of a grin.

When you left I realized

In your eyes, I saw the truth

I was the only soul

That could complete my heart

The only one I had to forgive

I was the one to make peace with.

Without you I thrived

I climbed and broke down

The walls you have built

Atop I sat, over the pile of bricks

Glancing at the world and the beauty I missed

Smiling at the sky, I weaved my wings

From the clouds that kept me company

I whispered a thank you to your lips.

Had you not let go of me

I would be here no more

Instead I’d be afraid to fly, afraid to fall

For I wouldn’t know

How to catch myself

Or how to save such grave descend

And now look at me, my love, I fly so high

Without the heavy weight of your kiss

Look my love, how bright I smile

You’ve been right the whole time

I deserved someone better than you; me.

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Step over a pile of cruched leaves;

Autumn came in whispering

secrets we never bothered to tell.

Between love and death, lovers remain together ;

songs of despair with trills and rattles,

in the autumn moonlight,

a nightingale nesting in leaves and twigs.

A hand reaching out,

time slipping away from our grasp;

steps echoing every verse,

a flower hidden under the burnt sienna of leaves

Oh, autumn you come upon tenderly

swelling and bringing sweet surprises; you are the fall and the humble abode of this equinox

intermittently delighting everyone's heart.

But I guess, this fall,

you didn't see me hiding

under the shade of the sun;

My heart reached out to feel my lover's touch but she had already

blown away with the wind

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