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Icarus

Icarus

Unrequited

If anyone but you
Had told me not to talk to you
They would never have succeeded
I let you go
Because you asked me to.
I didn’t mean
so much to you
You let me go
Because it was demanded of you
Because you were shamed
Because I just didn’t mean that much to you
I understand that
But why if that is true
Did you try so hard
To convince me otherwise?

(2014)

Otras obras de Icarus...
A prayer to my murdered muse

I have done you Oh, so wrong. I have never given you What you need Forgive my failure
What you were

You were more Than yourself For me You were A reason
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The hangman

There’s a hollow place Where your heart belongs Its vacuous emptiness Drains all compassion Consumes without satiation
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Still holding (though I want to let go)

Hope is so elusive It just won’t come near Hopelessness and foolishness Grasping to things that just aren’… I can’t seem to find freedom
Late bloomer

I thought I was the adult I had the years that is without question But experience and wisdom Those were yours
Banquet

I want to have it all A full meal with all the flavors Of the single morsel You fed me
Vanilla Milkshake

All the spaces between. All the things left unsaid. They are like the air packed into a vanilla milkshake
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The rain

Here comes the rain To wash away All the things the could have been Here comes the rain ( again) A cleansing flood
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Burning

Passions pit perfervid. Smoking cinders, and coals endure petulantly past their prime. Blisters and puss
dwell

2014-12-29-22-53-36_poetryx choose each moment how to act what to say
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Sticky pieces

There are so many things I’d like to say to you But when I see your face My mind just goes blank I’m terrified
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The Picinic

The two of them sat face to face by the banks of the narrow stream smoking cigarettes, throwing stone… and dismantling
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Fit for hell; saved by grace

Does it really matter Whose fault it was What’s been done Can’t be undone Anyways
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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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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



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