Jessie Stowers Poems

Masks please the eye,
Tears churn the heart.
You just need to smile wide,
They'll forget your broken part.
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I am from crunchy haybales,
from John Henry's and Stop to Shop.
I am from the fire on the back patio.
Melted chocolate, crackling wood, and eyes stinging from the burning ash and smoke.
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Looking from afar,
Would be better than this torture.
Glancing at the stars,
Wishing for past order.
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Maybe if it stopped beating,
It wouldn't kill me always.
In between the lines I've been reading,
Living in a painful haze.
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You take hold of my mask,
And betray me.
My endless task,
Is to make sure they don't see.
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My beloved escape,
Put reality behind me.
My life please reshape,
Make me finally feel free.
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I don't know how to feel,
Heartbreak controlling my life.
You seem to make the pain less real,
The dull edge of the knife.
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"pardon me can I speak to you in private?
my body is functioning the way it was meant to,
can you excuse me so no one laughs? "
It's one of the things every girl goes through.
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I whisper "Stop", in the moonlight I
watch you leave me behind to the company of the stars
"Please" I choke out, I can no longer see you
I never wanted for you to go. And yet
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