Collette Y Anderson Williams Poems

Together we sat, yet oceans apart;
Words flowed like a river - but only in
our separate hearts.
Your notions read -
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Do you love me?
Do you love me true?
So blue are my days
as thoughts of you
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The youth in me was taught
how to smoke the weed of non-acceptance.
There were fleeting glimmers
of physical affections - I believe
...

"Ready for love, " he thought
to himself
"She's all that I've
ever wanted;
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With you, I fell in love -
even before your face
I did see.
...

Only for a moment, I said.
This was all I needed.
Just a moment with you
Was all I needed to tell you
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Another winter's day
that you've left me
all alone.
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As I gazed into my life,
mulling over its many journeys,
I have laughed
And oh!I have cried!
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I assert not bitterness;
I convey naught of hatred.
I speak of forgiveness,
for my own sake.
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I've longed to soar the skies -
To spread my joyful wings and fly.
I've longed to exhale -
To feel floods of peaceful, yet unfathomable
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