Lynn Grassette

How many nights do I have to hope?
Silently, quietly, and all alone
How much hurt will penetrate this dark?
(Seeping through skin, desecrating my heart)
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Twenty years from this day
When we've gone separate ways
When all is grown, all has changed
And time causes feelings to fade
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Familiar drops
Drip from my eyes,
And skies are lit
Like lantern lights
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i miss you
though it's only been seven hours,
if only to feel that substance again;
that intoxicates me,
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“I...” he stutters
I just stare at him

“I....’ he stumbles
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Water washes,
Repeatedly over stones,
Gently turning them to sand;
Specks upon this land
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I think I've been in love with you
Since the dawn of love first bloomed
For as long as the wind has whispered words;
Conversing with the moon
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Morning is a rude awakening
to the 100 thread count sheets
and the lover I know will leave
Though maybe some coffee, or black tea,
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Colors turn from orange to dark purple
The mountains emphasizing the shades
Covering my eyes from the brilliance
I sigh, another wonderful day.
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As if,
This love was just a trip;
You pack all your things
When the wind sadly shifts
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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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