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Paralysis

Posted on February 12, 2023February 12, 2023 by Erin B.
The soul
felt a terrible ache,
the years went
slowly numb
in a spread of paralysis,
of shock,
an inward emptiness
in her soul.
Like dead leaves crumpling
to powder,
blown away on the wind.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on Sadness, Poems on TimeTagged ache, crumpling, dead, emptiness, leaves, numb, paralysis, powder, shock, slowly, soul, terrible, wind, years

Romantic Illusion

Posted on February 11, 2023February 11, 2023 by Erin B.
The overwhelming pressure
of that
romantic illusion.
Fate hardly matters.
You adapt to believe there is
an absolute one
for you.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on Life, Poems on SadnessTagged absolute, fate, illusion, overwhelming, pressure, romantic

Soft Flame

Posted on January 30, 2023February 5, 2023 by Erin B.
The soft flame of
beautiful emotions are in
vague, veiled eyes.
People pretend to
feel nothing.

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Posted in Poem on Love, Poems on Beauty, Poems on SadnessTagged beautiful, emotions, eyes, feel, flame, nothing, people, pretend, soft, vague, veiled

Between Their Words

Posted on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 by Erin B.
The morbid silence
was alive
between their words.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged alive, morbid, silence, words

Waiting Game

Posted on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 by Erin B.
As far as I could see,
my life is
a waiting game,
the wheels of anxiety
focus all my attention
on the past.

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Posted in Poems on Life, Poems on Sadness, Poems on TimeTagged anxiety, attention, focus, game, life, past, waiting, wheels

Reopening Wounds

Posted on December 24, 2022December 24, 2022 by Erin B.
Talk: what do you feel?
Are you ashamed
of reopening wounds?

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Posted in Poems on Anger, Poems on SadnessTagged ashamed, feel, reopening, talk, wounds

Nothing At All

Posted on December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 by Erin B.
I am so entirely
wrapped up in self,
I think I feel
nothing at all.

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Posted in Poems on Anger, Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged all, entirely, feel, nothing, self, think, wrapped

Live With That

Posted on December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 by Erin B.
I gave up a love
so incredible:
he had me in a shiver of flesh
and touch...
I think of the face I love
and he is gone.
I know I have to live with that.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged face, flesh, gone, incredible, live, love, shiver, that, touch

My Weakness

Posted on December 2, 2022December 2, 2022 by Erin B.
I was devastating
my weakness, 
that I ruin
everything I touch,
without exception.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged devistating, everything, exception, ruin, touch, weakness

My Universe

Posted on November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 by Erin B.
I feared
he was my universe.
My life.
He held a strange weight
that must possess me
entirely.

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Posted in Poem on Love, Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged entirely, feared, held, life, possess, strange, universe, weight

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