Edwina Reizer Poems

Will you hold me close to you tonight
and take my fear away?
For in my mind I know that this
closeness just won't stay.
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Where is the robin?
Where is the spring?
Show me your sweet red breast
that surely will bring
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Oh my love, if I could make a special place
just for you and me,
I'd make it one that was beautiful
and wonderful to see.
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Sweet little babe asleep in the night
with a smile upon your face.
Oh to be able to see what you dream
and to capture just a trace
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She worked the counter
at the local diner.
He worked in the caves.
He was a miner.
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How do they sleep
with sins on their souls?
A nocturne for sinners
is filled with holes.
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War is an act perpetrated on our youth,
the ones who don't know better.
They have not lived long enough
to cry and mourn
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The encounter was so brief.
It's as if some theif
came in and stole it away
and never let it stay.
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Everyone needs someone to love
and my choice has always been you.
I never have doubted my choice at all
and I don't know what I would do.
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