shannon wright Poems

when someone else says your name I want to scream.
how dare they hold you in their mouth.
they don’t know how precious is their verbal cargo.
they toss it in front of me like the morning paper
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Hurting someone I love

is like cutting out my own heart
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Is my fate in my own hands
or are you still watching?
You say you will never leave and yet…
You let them do what they did,
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Just when you think
you know me
I change.
Unrecognizable.
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mirror mirror on the wall,
who’s the most heartbroken of all?

Even the mirror ignores me.
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How do I feel today?
I feel black
I feel numb
I feel broken
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what would I have said
if I had known what you were thinking?
courting the thought of suicide.
how did you lose hope so early in the race?
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time is a cowardly thief

it creeps around
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I am nowhere near the end of you, the end of us.
my love has no beginning and no end.
But if I can’t have you in this life,
I will search all of heaven and earth
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today I read 12 letters
that I had refused to open
as if holding onto them
would delay the inevitable.
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