Mary Nagy Poems

I'm afraid to go to church
for fear of what they'll say.
What if I don't know the words
to join in as they pray?
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I thought I saw a mouse.
It ran behind the heater.
My daughter jumped and screamed so loud
I thought I'd have to beat her!
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A convention of Poemhunters
sounds very interesting
to me!
Aren't most poets introverts?
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As a teenager
my favorite thing
was floating.
I could float for hours.
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She's not in class
where she should be at 9: 15 a.m.
She's at the church
acrossed the street from the high school
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Why is it so easy for me
to see the ''good'' in everyone else
ANYONE else.......
but me?
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Dear Doctor...you have scared me!
I'm afraid to make a move.
I don't know what is safe or not.
It's nothing I can prove.
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We close and lock the windows.
We use dead-bolts on doors.
We sleep with one eye open.
It's not safe here anymore.
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Why is it that you stay here?
Do you wish that you were free?
I wonder...
if I offered you your freedom
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With these hands
I've held you when you were feeling low.
Hand in hand
I'll walk with you wherever you may go.
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