Janis Land Raymer Poems

I've searched for you for years...
do you exist?
I thought you would be
warm, safe...
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Can she...
care for you as I do?
Will she put you first in
all things?
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You're not enough...
I'm done.
I won't play your games...
I'm not the one.
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You were right there
I don't know why I couldn't see
Your charm was so unnerving
It wouldn't let me be
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He's gone
No amount of tears will change that
Death comes for all...
Friends,
...

Oh to be a butterfly
flying high in the sky
to escape the pettiness and the lies
Oh to be a butterfly
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Every time I dream of forever
what do I see?
I see you-
You're it.
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Small yet so dynamically talented
cute with boyish charm
we saw your charisma
who knew you would be THE ICON
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Never mind what the Bible says
about homosexuality...
after all a person's rights
are top priority.
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I wander alone...you hear my cries...but refuse to answer.
What have I done to cause you to abandon me?
The darkness is so heavy...The night owls hoots...so lonely, eerie.
The trees' bony arms...reach to gather me to their chest.
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