Lynn Grassette Poems

Found you in bed, with salt stained checks
Knew there were things you hadn’t told me
Focused my energy, prayed to see
The things you’ve been hiding so deeply
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The 50 cent notebook
With its shiny green cover,
And college ruled paper,
Brought me more relief
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We act
As if on stage
Enveloped in our roles
Reading the empty lines
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You don't even know
The coldness of the snow,
How time can stop and slow,
And that loves comes and goes.
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The thought of 6000 lonely miles;
Hours of interstate; roads worn and vile
Toll booths and highway exit signs.
Or a 4 hour,300 dollar plane ride
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We lie tangled and entwined;
Embedded in each others skin
Staying silent; almost completely combined
Unknowing where our own hands begin
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I love you, like I make love you.

Nothing but good intent, in every move I make;
To please you, oh, to squeeze you, to ease your every ache.
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If there weren’t walls and chained link fence
There would be acres of fields and open space instead.

Enough room to run
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You are the ocean,
And I, alone, am drifting upon you,
I alone, am drowning in your fierce waves;
Barley able to keep my head above the water
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I take it all back;

Every kind gesture, every loving word
Everything I let myself assume that you deserve
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