You

Knowing you was bittersweet
purple wildflowers on my tongue.

Knowing you was bright
sunshine on my face.

Knowing you was fleeting--
the breeze floating through my hair.

Knowing you was chaos--
chocolate melting on our teeth.

Missing you will be torment--
the trash left on that grass where we ate and laughed and smiled.

And I will.
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Zorro

VT

17 years old

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  • Poetry

    By Zorro

    thoughts

    Winter is coming.

    Silently with chapped lips and 

    breath in the cool air.

    But, I think I'll finish this 

    half-baked thought later 

    when winter has come and gone.

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  • Poetry

    By Zorro

    Ghost

    Once a sweet violet syrup of passion,
    now the bitter acid of indifference.

    Once a giddiness like rays of sun on your lips in the spring,
    now a cold careless ghost of the past.

    I indulged in the newness,

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  • Poetry

    By Zorro

    Floating

    My head is in the sky with those puffy white clouds of giddiness and
    A foggy understanding of what is to come is all that inhabits my brain.
    My skin is warmed by hot star energy and the smile pulling at the corners of my lips

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