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One Voice
Sitting at the television,
Watching the inauguration,
A young woman goes on stage,
She says she has a vision.
Right then and there, the shadows fade,
All that’s left is a shining place,
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The tree that protected me...
I believed that beneath the tree,
the branches' shield protected me.
Blocking out the words, the shouts, the pleas,
of others that were being teased.
Amongst the insects, bugs and all,
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Time Capsule
I put a message in a bottle,
And sent it out to sea.
It was full of memories
That would soon be lost to me.
A picture, a letter,
A rusty old key,
To unlock the past,
So someone else could see.
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Loves
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Well Loved
I find it difficult to get rid of shirts that I wore when I was thirteen.
Since I know how much I used to love them.
I sense she would feel betrayed if she saw it
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Woodland Grove
And your dark, knotted hair falls,
trailing along and settling
in the crevice of collarbone,
ravine of spine,
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Thoughts on a Sunset
It’s moments like these I wish would never end.
The sky would never fade into the dark.
The sea would never storm.
The news would never catastrophize,
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Now
1, 2, 3, 4, 5…
Every second counted,
Every minute ticked,
Every hour checked off,
Every year gone.
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The Difference
"Please explain a tree,"
I ask, and before
The natural silence of pondering,
The chirping of thought as woven melodies,
The rotation of gears churning into place,