Delilah Miller Poems

After it’s all over,
and I have lost;
did not end up with the item I treasured
or the boy I wanted the most,
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Implode, sizzle, then simmer.
Oh, how I wish
this was a game for both saint and sinners.
Off balanced, shaking, then slip.
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When the past is done,
and the ink from a stamped hand is scrubbed off;
the stench of new toys and taste of cotton candy is no longer fun,
Would I catch your glance?
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There is another great, green snake in your mouth.
Crawling and sprawling
to fill the newest silence, caused by your newest doubt.
A whole new serpent,
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I let my distaste of you get in the way.
Knowing I could get more flies with honey,
I still let vinegar linger in whatever I say.
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Goodnight, you.
I’ll see you in the moonlight.

I’ll wink at your star
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A tap
a pinch, a poke,
a caress..
It's all the same and it has ceased to do very much.
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We are those
people,
abusers
performers,
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We are poets.
We are going to tell each other how to live?
Waking up each morning,
How many remember how to truly give?
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Independence.
Dance!
Because it is a command.
Because truth happens, without anyone telling.
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