Brian Hinckley Poems

You moved on,
like a sailor leaving home for good.
Exploring and growing,
never settling for less than you deserved.
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The halls echo my footfalls,
shattering the silence around me.
I feel the cool air rush in from the door opening,
but I look up and you're not there.
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Creaking doors echo in moonlit rooms,
dishes rattle like bones in sunken tombs,
the ghosts have come to claim me.
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Fading vision
gives way to sensation,
drifting bodiless
through empty dreams.
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Details of my life come by unbidden,
lost in a torrent of fleeting moments and thoughts.
Past becomes obsolete and forgettable,
with only the present becoming pertinent.
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I gave everything
for one smile.
I tried so hard,
you never moved.
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Odd thoughts,
racing pulse.
Did what happened
really happen,
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A glimpse of sunlight - piercing the darkness
was all we were, but not anymore.
Blame could be cast on one thing or another,
but the blame is where it belongs - on me.
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You confuse me, muse,
and in your confusion I swim.
Do you want me to love you,
or leave you be?
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I see you there, burning, waiting for me to taste you,
put you to my lips and feel you enter me.
Exotic and dangerous, you invade my thoughts,
to touch, to hold, to taste you - I'm weak.
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