Ashley Burns Poems

Trouble seems to follow
Everywhere that I go
Can't manage to shake Him
He's attached himself so
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They say I'm older now
All grown up, figured out
They say I've learned a trick or two
Nothing left to feel brand new
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There was a point
When time flew by
Don't ask why
Blink of the eye
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Sometimes I think I started that fight
Because I knew you would run
We both know that you were right to say
I couldn't finish what I'd begun
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Warm breath on my cheek
On a cold winters day
Is death to a flake
That fluttered astray
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See through words
Paper thin
Feel the darkness
Closing in
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I see them
Smiling
Kissing heads
Holding hands across the dinner table
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I woke this morning 
And you were gone
Smell on your pillow
Still lingered strong
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Every now and again, I awake unprepared
To Sunday morning melancholy that hangs in the air
Where arms once wrapped around me, tenderly, with care
My comforter gives little comfort and no warmth to wear
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