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 May 2019 Vanessa Gatley
Colm
When your hand reaches, grasping mine
It's like I'm pulled through the ice on the pond my own imagination

With fingers waking
I fall from the clouds without landing
And return to the wandering desertless streams

Until you squeeze again
I forget who I am
Daydreaming And Hand Holding
Every time I see you
Starring at me from the mirror
I grow to hate you even more,

It’s the LUST  in your eyes

The ENVY  in your heart

The GREED  on your mind

Your GLUTTONOUS  habits

Your SLOTHFUL  nature

The undeserving PRIDE in your stance

And the WRATH  in your smile

These are the reasons I loathe you.
I see the world like no one else ever has
With one look I can find the deepest meaning
In anything

I write them down in poems
For they are holy scriptures
Which I know shall be worshipped
For all eternity

I am
No longer man
But a
Poetic deity
I
step into
the shower
The water temperature
turned all the way up
I want each drop to burn
As if to purge my soul
No matter how hard I scrub
I can never wash away my sin
Its stained too deep
Within
Forgotten are the moments missed,
the never was world
parting from this
waking reality
where I walk from
the end to nowhere.

Sweet salutations
sent to the void,
no expectation,
but still I am annoyed.

Every dream
becomes a whistle,
a tune that is
on the tip
of my tongue,
and like a specter
as soon as I think
I have captured
that diaphanous thing
it is gone.

Forgotten are
the hopes and aspirations
lost moments
in-between
the heartbeats
and their ceasing,
decreasing all
possible outcomes
as well as the
well of memories
we all sprung from.
 May 2019 Vanessa Gatley
Eitten S
With a sigh, the sun
Descends below the earth and
Waits for the new morn.
Haiku. Sorry I haven't been posting lately, I have been busy.
 May 2019 Vanessa Gatley
julianna
You push me up against the wall,
Because our love is bound to fall.
But you know what you can’t do?
You can’t save it.
You put your hands around my hips,
A taste of bitter guilt.
Your lips, my lips—
We kiss.
It’s the last time I’ll do this.
It’s over, that’s for sure.
A disaster? I don’t think so.
I’m walking out the door.
I know you’ll never find me.
You know that we’re done for.
I found a draft of this poem in my journal, which I wrote at age 12 (almost 13). I guess I’ve always been dramatic.
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