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Erin Lewis Jul 2012
Only a single tear in the salty sea
Only a single word that echoes back to me
No
Only a single breath will pass my lonely lips
Only a single look made the sharpened knife slip
Sorry
Only a single life is lost to the dark called death
Only a single song is sung before she left
Breathe
Only a single show will feature this shadow dance
Only a single fear left her longing for the chance
Love
Only a single dream brought beauty in its wake
Only a single girl brought a smile that wasn't fake
Angel
Only a single image of fire in the skies
Only a single name is said before she dies
Natalie
this poem is paired with another called Single Dream so please read that one as well. it will be so much better
Erin Lewis Jul 2012
I am a song of the centuries
I whisper the worries wound within
I spin stories of unspoken secrets
I tell tales of truth and treachery

I am a woman of words
Erin Lewis Jul 2012
Where were you when life got hard?
Where were you in the start?

Did you see the broken heart
Did you see thedeep red scar
Did you save another child
Did you save a life gone wild

Can you find a way to mend?
Can you find an angel to send?

Didn't you live to save my soul
Didn't you live so i would hurt no more
Did you teach this world to love
Did you teach them to live like above

Where were you when I cried?
Where were you when I died?
Erin Lewis Jul 2012
Running through the woods so deep
Hitting the ground with my cold hard feet
Feeling the air rush through my lungs
Slowing only to find the sun

The day is following my endless plight
The sun my only return to life
Creeping upon me on silent wings
The night approaches, the insects sing

I stop in a clearing of green mossy trees
The moon in the distance the only light I see
Unmarred by the city, a beautiful sight
Darkness around me welcomes no fright

Sleep a relief from the hard pressing day
Heartbeat pulsing, nothing to say
As the sun rises in the bright morning sky
I start my running on feet that seem to fly

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