Rachel Brewer Poems

I saw you leave your body,
The moment they shot you down.

I saw you float to heaven,
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All I’m doing is running uphill.
It’s so steep I don’t think I’ll make it to the other side.
I want to get there, I need to get there.
But I won’t make it on my own.
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Just leave me, leave me so I can cry.
Let me cry about things lost,
Let me cry, because I want to,
Because I need to.
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What if we woke up, and time had turned back?
What if we were still together now?
Would you still love me?
Or would you still want to leave me?
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You would think I could take on a vampire,
And I can,
I have before.
But this one was different.
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I’m hunting them,
All of them.
One went down with a pull of my trigger,
As did the next,
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It’s my time now.
I have to go out and face it.
Face the thing I’ve been afraid of.
For so many years it made me tremble.
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I can’t seem to fight this feeling.
A feeling I have inside.
It urges me to do things,
Things I don’t want to do.
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I pushed mine yesterday.
My self-destruct button.
I wouldn’t advise this to anyone.
You can’t un-push the button.
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Will you be ready for the day,
When all hell breaks loose?
Will you be ready for the death,
The destruction and devastation?
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