Amberlee Carter Poems

It happened in the time it took him
to go from putting on his left sock
to tying his right shoelace.
I’d quit loving him-
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You can't imagine how much I miss you, the sound of your voice, the softness of your lips. All these things torment me you know? Not a big surprise since you already knew I'm a haunted soul. I think about you often, and somehow I think if I were to allow every single one of my thoughts, of every enduring or passing moment be consumed by you, it still wouldn't be enough.
I love that the magnificence of you lingers with me always, in everything I do.

I think it's beautiful that the more I ponder you, the more I learn about my own existence, and the more I unravel of my fragile self, the more parts of me long to know everything there is to know about you. As if by knowing, and learning and understanding you, might somehow lead me to the answers of my being.
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i cannot go back anymore-
these stars have impregnated my eyes-
inspired divine destinations
that tangle and twist,
...

Universes collide,
scorched sky-
pastel people, rainbows of the world
...

Beds burn, longing-
Though I, have no desire

I walk streets-
...

I imagined
rain casting bows
cross your sleep struck neck,
you tossed and sighed
...

I’m asleep by midnight,
wake two hours later, shower
then it’s back to bed
where I rest my weary head
...

Something about the way your hand moved against
the moonstone of my cheek, as we stood amidst a world
of curious eyes- people, who would have damned us
had they known I was your lover, not your wife.
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I pretend pieces of my sanity
don't actually fall between
the pregnant pause, that
rushes the silence in
...

Love,
I let another man into
our bed last night
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