Edwina Reizer Poems

Ups and downs, highs and lows,
that is how my demeanor goes.
And what is it brings this on?
Only the thought of when you're gone.
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Under the starless skies at night
I sit and wonder at that sight.
They were there before the sadness came
and what is there that I can blame?
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Have you given thought my love
to when our days will end?
Or have you chosen to forget
what lies beyond the bend?
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Pain is only remembered while there.
As it leaves, it's lost.
Only the body remembers the cost
and the mind remembers the prayer
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Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.
What a stupid phrase.
One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
It's like saying love the sister, kill the brother.
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Rain in the morning, pouring at noon,
rain in the evening, it's like a monsoon.
The clouds have opened in the skies.
It's like the heavens have tears in their eyes.
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Thoughts and visions pass my way
in the twilight of my years.
I hold tightly to all of them
and try to hold back tears.
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I picked a leaf up from the ground
and compared it to my hand.
Its veins were strikingly similar
and wondered was it planned
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When most of the breath has left my frame
and not much lies inside
I'll remember when my breath was on fire
as I lay at night by your side.
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Encircle me, my loved one.
Never let me escape.
For the cage your love has placed me in
has for me the shape
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