Ben Partenay Poems

she says that my face
is the last she sees
before sleep takes her,
and she cannot sleep
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there’s been many a night
in the darkness of
alone
where I sit with
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leave me to my silence
and I will leave you to your laugh
leave me to my darkness
and I will leave you to your past
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The leaves are gone; the world’s gone to sleep
The grass is brown the earth is dark and bare
And if you look beyond that silent peak
Silence is there
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photograph this now
because I don’t think it
will last for very
long.
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Dance, I said to the boy in the glass
Staring back at me with a darkening mask
Dance, I begged, with love and pain
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And the sun slept on into the day
and lay buried deep
where the wisemen say
its gone to find some peace.
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It isn’t much I’ve seen,
just a couple sunsets
in the great grand
scheme of things.
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the wrecking ball sun
swung out towards the west,
and I raced it on the highway
window open, radio on,
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I write a poem, cross it out
write a song with no melody and hum
to myself and make up a story
where a character steals the sun
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