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Icarus

Icarus

To have kept you

To have kept you
Would have
cost me
Nothing
To have lost you
Cost me
The world
I had envisioned
 
Only held you
For a moment
The greatest
I have known
Your touch
Melted my cynicism
Now I’m unsure
What I have left

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Altre opere di Icarus...
Divided World

2015-01-01-19-13-39_poetryx World Divided I sit here alone waiting on the edge harsh reality
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Fear actualized

2015-01-21-21-07-36_poetryx Wondering Wandering Quagmire My own creation
Insecurity

I can no longer trust my mind not to betray me, and devour me To bury me with thoughts of insecu… Was it love was it something else
The hangman

There’s a hollow place Where your heart belongs Its vacuous emptiness Drains all compassion Consumes without satiation
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Can you?

Can you Unravel the lies You tell yourself To make it through Your uneasy
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Right Thinking

Life is right judgement Wisdom divides great from small Wrongness has no life
Over the hill

When I got over the hill the girls hooted and I skated down the fun side of the arched bridge over the river. Carving hard
A day in August

There was a day. it was in August we visited your mother in the hospital. Afterwards we wen… to a beach side burger joint.
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Lost my thought

I’ve lost it again The words were just there Right on the tip Of my mind Now they’ve descended
We cross one another

In the street. Pensive glares pregnant with meaning. Imagined Memories. Greetings between Former lovers wrenched
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Lost love

You’re still My favorite person A thing Impervious to change Your memory
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Your Integrity holds me

It has never changed My heart’s inclination. I am still drawn to you. Having known you I cannot see you
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Men who go home to wives who don't care

The million incandescent bulbs that line Gibbs St from Barrett Place to Main go out just after midnight. Stragg… smokers sit or stand in the alley
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Exchanging griefs

I can’t help wondering Was that really you Could it have been so High If I could answer
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I have touched the sky

Easy to lament Greatness touched and then gone bu… Few taste it at all



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