Abby Koning Poems

Can you hear me?
The canyon is vast and though my voice echoes
I wonder if you’ll let yourself hear it
And if you do, I wonder whether it will make you
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Come, journey with me
Into imagination
From the melancholy tones
Past the wailing moans
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Oh, he’s just some guy
The one you don’t even notice until you walk into him
Then forget the moment you turn away
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find some godforsaken rock and sacrifice the bitterness of youth
watch
-close your eyes and see this—
The coloring child brandishing her white crayon, trying to convince
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(a whisper reaches your ear:
‘nobody likes the taste of cold dregs…’
and you attach no meaning to it)
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Once again, I find myself driving silently
From somewhere I can’t remember
To nowhere at all
On this road paved with apathy
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a shadow
she said
that’s all we are
simply a pair of impermanent shadows
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Why I am never quite able to say
Exactly what
I mean?
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Dreams
Are as starlight in my eyes
Carving rivulets in my cheeks,
(oh, such anguish)
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The winter night was misty
As we stood side-by-side.

And the night was so cold that the stars,
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