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Horror Of That Moment

Posted on July 10, 2022August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
There was no wound, no visible bruise,
but the horror of that moment
had me in despair.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged bruise, despair, horror, moment, visible, wound

Slow Drift

Posted on July 10, 2022August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
That strange, slow drift apart
creeping and intangible.
It's gradual, but you know,
the relationship is undead.
Tottering forward
without warmth, or soul, or pulse.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged creeping, drift, forward, gradual, intangible, pulse, relationship, slow, soul, strange, tottering, undead, warmth

No Man But You

Posted on July 10, 2022August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
There's only you,
there was
no man but you.
Maybe that's the problem.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged man, only, problem, you

Happy

Posted on July 9, 2022August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
"Happy" isn't what she hoped it would be,
love is a mystery - 
desire a depth haunted by
inevitable imperfections.

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Posted in Poem on Love, Poems on Happiness, Poems on Life, Poems on SadnessTagged depth, desire, happy, haunted, hoped, imperfections, inevitable, love, mystery

Misanthropist’s Heaven

Posted on July 8, 2022August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
A misanthropist's heaven: my heart
sheltered by my perseverance
not to allow
anyone to walk in.

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Posted in My Heart Will Go On, Poems on Life, Poems on SadnessTagged allow, heart, heaven, misanthropist's, perseverance, sheltered, walk

Strangers

Posted on June 28, 2022August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
Something about her,
she seemed so sure but
so sad too.
He wanted to know her, and yet,
they were strangers
never to speak to each other.
He couldn't stop staring.

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Posted in I Am Woman, Poem on Love, Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged know, never, sad, something, speak, staring, strangers

Live Your Life

Posted on June 27, 2022August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
You can't
live your life
waiting.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on Life, Poems on SadnessTagged life, live, waiting

Flesh and Smile

Posted on June 27, 2022October 8, 2022 by Erin B.
The living human is cursed
hustled along
middle-aged, middle income
stomping along but alive.
Manufactured flesh and smile.

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Posted in Poems on Life, Poems on SadnessTagged alive, cursed, flesh, human, hustled, income, living, manufactured, middle, middle-aged, smile, stomping

Articulate

Posted on June 27, 2022October 8, 2022 by Erin B.
Uttering a few unintelligible words
I don't yet possess
the language to articulate
the emotion, the loss, the anger.

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Posted in Poems on Anger, Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged anger, articulate, emotion, language, loss, possess, unintelligible, uttering, words

Greed

Posted on June 26, 2022August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
Greed - there was nothing
as frightful as this.
Nothing as terrible
as this.

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Posted in Poems on Life, Poems on SadnessTagged frightful, greed, nothing, terrible

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