Mike Tonkin Poems

She walked away from me
Not looking at me
Taking no notice of me
Glad to be leaving, .
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I saw it first
When I was five,
It was small,
So small
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There is always a moment
Just before you sleep
When you feel a tremor
In your heart.
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Why do I love you
It seems easy to explain,
But it is not.
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I wonder sometimes
If life Is worth living.
I feel drained
With hardly any
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Wallowing in memories
Memories of childhood.
Places and times
Of no importance to
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Gods away.
No. sorry
Don't know when he'll be back.
A war.
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My private moments
Have been invaded..
She went
where nobody else
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The tide was half in,
and we were cut off,
cut off from everywhere
my mother and I.
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I ask
Questions
Of you,
I hear them
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