M. W. Taylor Poems

It is warm here.
The contours of
your body
fit
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How many hours of our lives
do we spend in waiting rooms?
On hold.
How many hours waiitng
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The hollow seashell, which for years has stood
on dusty shelves, when held against the ear
proclaims its stormy parent and we hear
the faint murmur of the breaking flood.
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It has been months now.
Months, and I am glad you are gone.
Yet, a part of me wishes you remained.
I am a man of halves.
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Do you remember the night
we sat on my couch at 2am?
You read me poems about the war
that you studied back when you were at school.
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What if I fall?
Would you help me stand
tall again, with abstract words
and those paperfold butterflies?
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It is because I love you that I wrap the night around my face like a scarf
to wear the darkness, just so you don't have to.
I do it so that it is I who shoulders your pain, your burden,
so you can wear your beautiful sunshine smile, not the night sky scarf.
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I have walked the Valley of Dreams.
Where the wildest hope springs forth like fire,
to consume your mind and
turn dreams to ashes of obsession
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See you under a firework
in the cold, lonely sky.
Beneath the dazzling lights
and awe that never dies.
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It would not be enough
to simply say
'Je t'aime'
but, instead,
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