lisawritespoems

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Have I forgotten to remember you? Was that something I'd have to remember? Or would it happen on its own?

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Lifetimes are shorter than you think There are so many memories Hiding in folds of my brain That my hands can't remember So was that still me? I think it was a lifetime ago.

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It’s easy to forget an addiction Until you find yourself reaching And reaching, and reaching Even when your mind was quiet And you didn't even notice Where your hands were

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There is something running down your hips, along your thighs, starting at your heart that I can’t wait to drink in again and again

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I will wait and tend the fires While your aches wander So that when they find their way back I can invite back into my heart And soothe their tender feet

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A car driving over the same dirt road You softened me And taught me that loves flourishes In places where no one would think - Where the grass grows too tall to see over, Where flowers blossom even in the shadows

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I hope the sun rises And warmth fills the aching Parts of your back I hope the wind blows And the chills finds sleeping Parts of your skin to wake I hope everyday of your life Feels like consendaton of love That your smile provokes inside me

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There are laws that govern The magnetic attraction between two charges And the gravational pull between two planets But they can’t explain How I find myself laying next you Reaching for your kiss Over and over

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For the first time There's nothing to say There aren't any words tumbling Around in my mind like washing machine There are no old, musty feelings Hanging on the drying line It's just us

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I can count eight ways That I fell in love with you just today - And tomorrow I might count sixteen - Because it's easy to follow the curve of your wrist, down your arm, all the way to your heart And stay there

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When I catch your eyes across a room I loose myself like a thread, Threatening to take the whole seam along with it I'm waiting to come apart under your hands

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I've been told by wiser women That anything worth having is worth fighthing for So why did you choose love that was easy? You chose love that worshiped at your feet, But never questioned the path they took.

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My Spanish stumbles like a drunk girl That doesn’t remember how she got home. It gets lost, it wanders, it looses words I have to reach for in English

So when you ask me how to say, Some stupid phrase And I can't It’s not because I don’t know Spanish It’s because my Spanish lives at home.

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You tell me to stop being anxious. Like I want to be anxious? Come to me and tell me how to stop the shaking snakes inside my veins when I think about how another one of us is gone. We are passing faster than the days do. And if I don't pass, I am not safe. My skin is light and my hair is short and most days I will play a white man because I am tired of fear. I have no room for shame. I have a storage unit just for that. And maybe when I'm done remodeling this house, where the lead paint bleeds into the water supply, I can bring shame and fear back into my room and they can teach me about anxiety.

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Prompt: Write about your favorite letter of the alphabet.

I like to connect dots floating in space The way the greeks made constellations Even though we all look up at the sky and say, "Well, that doesn't look like anything." Maybe we weren't anything But I still trace out the shapes, Because heartbreak can't be random There's a pattern hiding somewhere See, I must be really into Cancers - I just dated two of them in a row. And my favorite girls are tall girls, - they don't need to try to remind me that I'm small. And my favorite letter must be C, because all of my self doubt starts that way Like "can't" and "could have" And your name.

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They claim that you should love yourself And others will follow But I only learned to learn By example

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Almost a thousand days passed You never asked me About the dying woman I saw every week Like it didn't matter