Barbara Vanier Poems

See me dance, dance for you
Move my arms, my leg
You give me everything
Nothing from you I beg
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Riding through the morning
Risen sun in my eyes
Orange placards warning me
Of ahead what does lie
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I'm telling you please thanks for all that's given
I'm saying please could you spare a little more
And I'm trying hard to live like you expect me
But I lay crying down on the killing floor
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I hurt someone last night
I didn't use a stick
I didn't use a club
I didn't use a knife
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Black holes draw into themselves
matter of time and then they are gone
screaming in fear the light tries to escape
into the Nothing
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You spoke those word I always feared
Your silence has left me broken here
What did I do what did I say
To make you silently walk away
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Where did she go that slave of mine
She travels so far away
Hour after hour she goes
Chasing the sunset away
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Ashes falling on the ground
Winds that blow a hollow sound
Once standing taller still
Now falling by your will
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My Heart how I miss you.
I long to see your face to hear your voice.
To long have I sat in silence my heart calling out to you.
Where are you my love?
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