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Old 06-19-2010, 11:50 PM   #21
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I tried to replace you, don't cha know?

She was a poet...
she looked like you,
she sounded like you,
Her arms almost felt like you..
she even almost smelled like you..

But she wasn't you..
a kinder, paler version of you..
She had no belives
She had no wild dreams
She didn't have a drop of your passion..

So, I walked away and didn't look back..
I hurt that gentle soul
Because she wasn't you..

I tried to be you, don't cha know..

I found someone
who wanted hard hands and teeth at her neck..
who wanted someone to keep her safe...
to tell her right from wrong...

But I wasn't you...

I didn't have your control,
I didn't have your strenght
I didn't have your convictions...

So, I told her no more..
and I left her shut down and closed off..
Just like me..

I'm done trying to replace you,
because it can't be done

I'm done trying to be you..
because that's not who I am..

I'm done crying because I lost you...
Because it does no good..

Instead

I will simply smile and remember
and know you own my heart..

Until you don't...
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Default 2am Rising...

Just about every night
I lay down at a time when my mind is throwing a temper tantrum..
*NO NO NO NO* it says..
I don't wanna go to bed..
Full blown 3 yr old rage..
Arching back, kicking heels..

I tell it to behave,
That we are going to be 40 this year and we must be responsible, do the right thing..

My mind says "NO"
loud and beligerent..
It wants to go dancing..
It wants to get into the car and go driving..
It wants to stay up and read..
It wants to talk on the phone..
It wants..
It wants..

It wants to have a later bed time that a 3 yr old..

Just about every night I have to coax my mind to sleep..

Reminding it that we are to old be to telling lies to ourself..
That we will NOT get up if we stay up just a lil longer..
That just a few more mins WILL hurt..

That having something you want comes with a price..

Wanting always has a price...
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This is one that made it past gravity tonight...

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This one.

I know this like I wrote it.
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3pm Sunday afternoon I fell in love with your little finger

You were standing in the kitchen talking to me..

I didn't hear a word

I was falling in love with your little finger
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Default Water for Thought

Summer never began until I made that trip down a tired, dusty country dirt road.

The road started in front of my grandparents’ house, it meandered its way through two fields of green,
past the irrigation ditches with their cool chemical smelling water, past Grandfather Oak,
the ancient tree whose wide trunk invited all to pour out their heartache and sorrow; to find their respite beneath its shadowy leafs.
I always took him up on his offer, sitting and leaning my sunburnt back against his raspy shell.
Sitting a spell and telling him of all I had seen and done since the last time I sat in his shade.
It only seemed proper to give him stories of the world he couldn’t visit, him being of the non-mobile type.
After my visit, the road, with its mud ruts didn’t seem as hot, or as long.
It seemed in a blink of an eye the fields on the right would end and the sign would appear.
A rusted sign attached to a cattle gate saying NO TRESPASSING.
That sign always gave me pause for a second, my natural tendency to follow the law, warring with on over whelming desire to complete my summer ritual.
A quick look around for farm trucks and then up under the gate.
The road took on a different texture, a different mood now; it felt lonely, and abandoned.
The road faded in and out, Grass and rock taking back sections of the road.
The rock took over the grass and road, broken and striated the rock turned into boulders.
My walk became a climb. I remember climbing, thinking this is too much, I’ve gone too far, I need to turn back, and then I would be there.
Just like that, like a mirage, it would spread out like a shock, Deep Turquoise water, shear block cut walls, the ground around it like some alien land, lifeless and dry.
I would sit on the edge of the quarry, sitting so still, so quiet while I told the water everything that had happened over the past year.
I told it of my fears, my joys, and the things I had seen and learned. It was as if I was clearing my head and heart of the past year.
Closing out the school year and making room for the new one to come.
I would sit by that deep still water and become lighter and freer with every second of that imaginary conversation.

It seemed to me that the trip back to my Grandparents house took only a blink of an eye…
I was eager for my family, my cousins, for the noise and the music of them.
Summer had officially begun.
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