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Johnny Cammish

Johnny Cammish

Shadows

It’s been said that
I’d love a shadow
If it smiled at me.
I smile and agree:
Talking to people
Online is like
Talking to shadows
And I met you
In person first -
I have seen you
In flesh and
I was awed
Even before your
Lips met mine
So if I can love
Your shadow -
I can love your all

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Mostly Legs

I miss your love, you press into me like you’re tryi… to be me lean so hard on me that I struggle… I’ll sit on the floor and hug you…
Before the leaves were crushed underfoot

A sudden gust of wind and through a shiver I see a tree explode sparklike leaves shaken free a wide brimmed hat blocks the view
Holding a Mirror

There are those So full of life that Even my cynicism cannot be matched You are such, and
Book Covers

Never judge a book by it’s cover? Want me to bow to your proverbial… Keep spitting your self satisfied… I’ll judge a book by it’s cover I’ll gaze at the wrinkled spine
Silence

Yes? Oh! And now what? Sat on a train I can just shrug At a stranger
Sisyphus

I’m going nowhere but So what? I’m in no hurry But God I wish I was I push so hard for love
The Pursuit of Happiness

Happiness is an elusive beast it is best not to pursue it through foliage and fen You’ll never catch sight of it tha… Instead, wait in darkness and bait…
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Waiting

Waiting Is exhausting but I just keep on Waiting Because I think you’re worth it Even though I lapse and sometimes
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Thetis

I’m light Quench me slake my smoking chariot In your flood Before the smoke gets too much
Butterfly

Staring out the office window at the office window across a butterfly flit through a small gap in the window immediately regretting the decisio…
Chains

I know your nightmare; nothing is… In life you linger, lost in dreams… You project pain far, poison what… All betray your best, banish what… So, wounded within, who can lift t…
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You

In truth, There is no 'you’ You are but a lie, a clue You flatter yourself thinking, That my entire thought unceasing Is but on one individual,
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Air

Listening to the gale blow, I recall the banshee of memory, Spectres of what was haunt my thoughts, And I recall the pain,
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Earlier

I saw you earlier and you looked So stressed if I’m honest about t… But I wonder, did I make the righ… I spoke to you once (and I was ho… With quick fantasy (of worn out be…
Candles

Flickering uncertainly but still certainly flickering our candle dripped we had trays of wax time and trauma saw to that



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