James Merchant Poems

My eyes always venture below your neck
Every freckle every fleck
And the rhythm of war drums
Renders me numb
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Let me guess
Your lips are curling as usual
Such a pest
To have a reputation as cruel
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Transfix me with your robin egg blue eyes
Pull me closer to witness the night
But I was never close to you
Though you saw me looking through
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The more I come to look at her
The more my face is clean
My cheeks taste salty.............again
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When I am sad
I like to laugh
I'm not very complex though
There is no sinister meaning
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I don't understand so many things
So would you help me piece together my heart
Its been broken again
I swear I can't help it
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Smiling silver
Leaks boiling water across the tapestry
Soaking right through
Leaving muddled stains like inkblots
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A lock of your blonde hair.
I hold it close
To my heart.
I can't let go.
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The emptiness of existence
Is a mental condition
For there can be no way
That you can be numb to all the world has to offer
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I hide behind misinterpretation
Of the gifts woven into my skin
My bones and soul
Those gifts that separate me
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