Josephine Dunn Poems

Hold me in the dark
As night is falling
Hold me in the dark
As day is dawning
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You stirred my soul
And woke something in my heart,
Let me sing to you.
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Why did you have to say I love you?
I would have settled for being friends.
Now I love you and you hate me
And nothing I say will make amends.
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Rumpled lives we live and leave
From the time that we’re conceived,
Rumpled lives and rumpled beds
Start with a f*** and end in death.
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Have you ever danced naked
Except for you socks
In your sitting room
With the doors unlocked?
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A man I know
Keeps his world in a box
It’s full of precious things
So he keeps it locked.
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My love is not finite,
It is not measured by rule.
There is no rhyme or reason,
But do not take me for a fool.
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She will make you king
In the tiny kingdom of her heart
She will crown you Oberon
And pray you never part
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You have taken my name
Numbered me
Photographed from front and side
Processed me
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Once you gave me violets
Whose fragile beauty
Lasted but an hour,
Then wilted, but fragrant
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