Ben Partenay Poems

yesterday unraveled into a sky that looked like
a bruise, and we call it today because it lacks
originality and life, and the sun still tries to shine
from out behind this dusty window pane
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I found love on breaker beaches
on city streets filled with strangers
on nights that spun with drunkenness
and later on forgot
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The rain falls and David will not win today
While his sign screams “Save the Trees”
And everywhere the world is go, go, go
And the sky is rain, rain, rain
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Today I cannot love, today
there is a wall that’s built, I see
and toss a brick myself.
One atop and mortar it.
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forgive the little things
that hold no consequence
like the
cold feet
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And I,
The traitor that I am
Have not a promise kept,
Nor have the birds flown backwards
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When every word is said and done
And silence meets its fate
When all the songs are cried and sung
And time decides to wait
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sunset crashes down
on houses, I hear voices
of the day around me
the alarm clock from
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They have said, I have heard
it spoken now, I am obsessed
can’t stop talking, death, about it
this time, if not one it’s another.
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inevitably
you feel
yourself taken
into it all
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