Elizabeth Russell Poems

There’s something inside me at last
For a long time there was nothing
I gaze at the reflection of my baby’s mother in the mirror
She raises her glass, drinks
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I wasn’t always a drunk
Once I was a child - a little girl
Who wanted love
Which she found - in a bottle
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“Miracles flourish from tragedy”
I believe it
With all my heart
And soul
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My little dog
Who has spent her whole life loving us
Is dying
Her heart which has loved so freely
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Your hand in mine
Makes me feel whole
Encourages me
To continue
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Lost, like children in a war
Floating in a universe of directions
With none
Faces that once stirred
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There are times when the shadow of death
Dilutes living
It waters everything down making life,
Instead of death,
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I have often wondered
What kind of pain
Could make a person
Choose to give everything away
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As a child
I considered the possibility of happiness
To be so alien to me
As to be non existent
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The child’s eyes reflect the firelight,
Liquid eyes mirror the dancing flames.
She stares trancelike no longer thinking.
The windows of her soul closed
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