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Everyone's the same  Disappointing and fickle Alone is better

Always be present  Don't let it pass by too quick Each moment is rare

Haiku Breathe in and notice  Everything you're grateful for  Exhale and smile

Limerick  I could spell it out for you  Say what I want you to do  But you still won't hear  Would you shed a tear  If I left out of the blue?

I'll let you grab me  You can kiss me all over  Wherever you please

Right before we met  I drew a picture of you  The man of my dreams

Have you seen her?  The girl I used to be  The lovely little lady  I wish you'd set free  I found her buried  In a pile of your clothes  She could hardly breathe  As her heart beat slowed  It was the steady death Of the one I loved most Forcing your absence Gives her room to grow From this day forward I will mourn and mourn Neverending pain Until she's reborn

Is it too much to ask For something real? For someone Who communicates how they feel? Is it too much To want sincerity? In a cold, dark world With all but clarity Is it too much to ask For something so simple? For loyalty In a time so fickle Is it too much to ask For love to be easy? For trust to be given Without feeling queasy? Is it too much to want Something that lasts? In a moment so temporary It goes by too fast Is it too much to ask For acceptance of my flaws? For a love so genuine It makes you want to pause? Tell me, is it too much? Because if so I'll stop looking for you I will carry on alone

I could punch a hole in the wall right now  Because I can't write, right now  I've lost the words  My flow has subsided  Empty and pale faced No rhymes could ignite it  I shouldn't need anything  Not a crutch or a someone My eyes keep leaking This can't be it, I'm not done

I will own a house With 2 kids and a husband  2 dogs and 2 cats I'll be a 3rd grade teacher Run marathons twice a year

Give it time  Don't share it loud  Know their all  Before you're proud  Burn the pedestal  Blow out the flame  All you know  Are words and a name  Experiences  Will give you clarity  The good ones are Quite the rarity  Don't give so much  To one you just met  For if they leave  You're left with debt  Don't dig so deep  Quit fanticizing  Don't go blind Romanticizing

I think you mean it When you tell me you're in love With being alone / I can show you love  That will always make you feel  Like you are at home

I'll meet you halfway  Where the stars are brighter  Just weeks before May  When the night is lighter  I'll show you my voice first  To put yours into tune  Give you my best verse  As your eyes reflect the Moon  I'll ask if you care  What music we listen to  I hope you're aware  That my touch is your cue

I'm staring at the Sun  On my walk out west  I suppose in this moment  I've officially decided That if I can't see you  I might as well  Burn holes in my eyes  There's nothing to see  If you're not with me 

I'm so scared for you  Petrified for me  Afraid of aging Chopping branches  Off my family tree I can't say I've ever tried  To understand the love  I've had for you  Since my very first breath  I should sit down and write  I just might  So that nothing ever goes unsaid  I can let you know  Tell and show  How much you mean to me  How much of who I am Is on account of you I am part of you  For that, I am proud  Because you are everything You gave me everything  I owe my all to you  And I need you to know  That I'm in love with the world  The one you gave me  The beautiful world I perceive  Because it's still The one you showed me I'm so lucky  To live in the world You taught me to love  You will be the greatest loss  Of my entire life  I need you  Like the Earth needs sunlight You are my roof when it's raining  My heater when it's cold  My tissues whe...

Put me somewhere far  Somewhere small  With little to no traffic  Put me someplace  Where mother nature  Eclipses man  And man's things  With shade from a mountain  And a little stream  Some room for a garden  Even a trailer will do  Anything with a roof I'll be content, I know Wherever I go  Just put me there  And let me live  Alone

A misunderstood riddle  Rolled off a lonely tongue  The tongue of a poet  With too much to say  And no one to say it to She speaks too quickly  When you come around  Like there isn't enough air in her lungs  To last as long as she needs to speak  She rushes it from gut to lips  From lips to ear  If you actually listen, that is Do you care to hear?  She'll draw back a bit  Reading your face  But there's so much to tell She'd write it all out If the paper could say  "I love to hear you talk, Your poetry speaks to me, And I'm sorry you had a bad day"

The sun scalds the concrete On a crowded city street Deaf to the rhythmic beat As the pavement accepts my feet Would a place be so ugly  If humans weren't around?  Would the bees make more honey  If we up and left town? I think we sometimes forget That we are only lessees To nature, we're in debt We shant live here for free

I see the snake slither  Up the invisible mountain  Where the dandelions wither  Near a dried up old fountain  I hear stories of madness  Among the hawks and the moths I sense of tone of sadness  From the one who wears a cross  Stung twice along the way  Bonnie and Clyde wasps If it'd work, I'd pray Because now I am lost

I am done obsessing  Done wondering about you  I'm over the fixation  It's my peace I must choose  I'll stop thinking about us  Looking around for you  Except my fingers are crossed  And today is April fools