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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Poems
Jun 25
One Year
It’s hard to believe that a heatwave
has such a chill in the air,
the wind that carries a whisper
of your memory,
distorted now and distant
have I forgotten you on purpose?
is forgetting easier than remembering
how much I loved you
how much I miss you
Is denial my friend?
Washing away your name
as if it were the sea and I had
drawn it in the sand
the heat makes the flowers
wilt before their time
and I cannot bare to see it
to see you in a rose petal,
brown and withered
deny, forget, erase
but I cannot forget
the flaws and imperfections in you
that taught me how to be human
because I am flawed now,
scrambling in the dark
like a child lost in a maze
there is nothing I can do
to honour you enough
to thank you enough
forgetting is a pretty poor way
of repaying you
but I have to survive
I have to survive
because I am breaking
otherwise
Written by
Emma Elisabeth Wood
F/UK
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