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Cíara McNamara Apr 2015
I will tell you later
if you tell me now
Cíara McNamara Apr 2015
All I have is skin,
I am missing the tobacco and filter
which you desperately need.

You can't make a rollie
and have a decent smoke
with just skins

Why do I only have the component
that everybody else has?
Cíara McNamara Apr 2015
" If I write you a love poem
it probably means I hate you
"
Cíara McNamara Apr 2015
She came to me, clutching her hand
as if she was clutching her life
Her little sobs
As delicate as dying breaths

She looked at me
with those bug-green eyes
pleading for my attention
for once to nurture and care

Within her *******
was a splinter
that she tried to rescue herself
instead shoving it further in

She took a sharp breath
as my magic hands
set it free -
set her free.

I sighed to myself
as she skipped away

For who is there
to rescue the splinters from me?
Cíara McNamara Apr 2015
There is yours
and there is mine
there is no us
like in storybooks

I am young
and you are restless
I am reckless
and you are wise

To the outside
we might be combined
but there is yours
and there is mine

Our stalemate love
is a sour tragedy
bitter on our lips
and tongues

Because there is yours
and there is mine
and what we have
we can't combine

You are the restless soul
that has been aged
and I am the youth
that is your pastime

Stalemate love
for stalemate lives -

How can something so fair
be so -
Cíara McNamara Apr 2015
There is beauty within failure*
Is my life then a tale of a fair maiden
surrounded by a macabre beauty?


Then it is not the tragedy
written in my sins
on bloodstained paper
that I've been practicing


Or is the beauty in
learning from you failures?
'Cause then all these lessons have been lost on me
Cíara McNamara Mar 2015
He
You are the dawn for my darkest nights
the sweet birds song that reminded me
the entire worlds still alive

Just as I lay dying
afraid, and alone
missing the whole point

While sealed curtains can block the light
That song it tempted a fading soul
to drink from the light once more
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