Emily Myers Poems

I see you, across the room
Haunted eyes catch mine
And I can’t look past
Fear, and pain, love and hate
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Your seductive eyes play me like the piano
which you use to tune your mistruths
Slowly you draw me in with your medicinal vocals
that envelope me in warm, soft tones.
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In vain I cut a vein hoping bleeding stops the breathing
Breathing causes pain, a pain that I don’t feel receding
A door that shatters dreams can silence screams from rising
Fathers hurt their daughters just so they can keep them crying
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The silence- broken only
by the sound of the shovels
dividing the packed earth-
overwhelms the men with
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Beautiful tears slip from graceful eyes
A dancer in her soul, she lives in disguise
Dreams echo in a heart that beats in deceit
She throws her soul from the rooftop conceding defeat
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The starfish cry in terror, afraid to reminisce
Memories swirl around them, secrets clutched between their lips
Slate gray waters churn and burn them, icy to the skin
Tossed upon the shore the panic suddenly sets in
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Crying little girl
who's crying from within
Screaming, dying little girl
whose shouts are never heard.
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In the eyes of a little girl, burns hatred deep and cold
A fire made of ice, a heart made of stone
Carved from the nothingness that has been her whole life
She picks apart her father's wounds, the scars from her own knife
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Here we are.
Is this how its all got to end?
A knife in the back from
the one we considered a friend.
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The firey leaves
grasp at the branches
hoping they can last-
one more hour, minute
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