Anne Marie V. Kennedy Poems

In the pitch dead of night
Sleep eludes me again

My head pounding, my heart racing
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Sometimes I feel
Like a fatherless child
Like a fatherless child
So far away from home
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I hate to bring you this heresy
Because I’m aware most will not believe
But that can’t deter me from saying my piece
Only once in my lifetime can I these words speak
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Oh how I see your pain
And feel your every hurt
You knew but never dared explain
Still buried in the dirt
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I rest my head on your shoulder, dear.
Nothing can quell this pain.

I sing to my unborn child, but still…
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The water marches over
My solitary song
The river clenches her fist
We know it won't be long.
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The velvet shadow on frozen skin
Like I know the lie
Words unspoken are never true
You tie and tie and tie
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In the open meadow I cry
Your eyes too dark to ever see mine
Your hair too blond to melt in the snow
Your smile too thin to make me let go
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I see more than I can bear in your silence
Hear more than I can take in your furrowed brow and broken smiles
Smell more than I want in your dizzying rituals and broken thoughts
Feel much more than I ever thought I would in your perpetual distance
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Block out the voices.
Too much sound.

It is enough that we
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