Emma Kessler Poems

Distraught
That's what I am
Why does the world
have to be like this?
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I'll never waste a chance
To be by your side
Take every chance I get
To look into your eyes
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The women of death
Loom over the heartbroken
Weighing down upon them
Speaking the only words they know
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Word of your death
Grabbed me by the throat
and choked every remaining bit of hope from me
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What if the world was just a book
Some other man has written?
And we were just the characters
Playing out our parts
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The blue of your eyes, reminds me, of a calm sea
And they have the same effect on me
The calm sea, it pulls me, right in
It makes me want to just stroll in, and stay in, all day
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I have been here
Too long
Trapped in the wrong world
For so many terrible years
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My tongue is heavy
With words I have left unspoken
I want to tell you
But my heart thinks I would be mistaken
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Inspiration
It calls with noiseless words
It creates a stringless knot
That binds together poet and pen
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I pass the shallow pool
And the water nymphs smile up at me
Out of the water, with angelic, childlike faces
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