Lynne RBC

If I make faces and paste a smile,
will you forget originality
and mimic my style?
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Where do balloons go?
I really want to know.

If I release it to the sky
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I found it
a blaring reminder of that day
when you sat inhibited beside me
moving closer with every turn
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I have driven
this too familiar road
countless times before
but today
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You are history
retold
relived
over again
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If we were kids
I would have dragged you out in the rain
and showed you how beautiful it is
if we were under it -
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Again and again,
you have skillfully sent
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Maybe, I owe myself a favor.
I need a rest.

We've been running around our circle.
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Something must be wrong with my hands.
My plants are dying
and I've killed 2 of my dogs.
Well, not that I strangled them to death.
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Meanings change
with people.

You say
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I made a resolution.
I'm keeping it short.
Less words.
No explanations.
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I've been warned
there's no stopping things from happening.
People leave
You can only grieve
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This clutter needs to be arranged.
I see it on my desk
but I know
it's coming from my brain
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I don't own you
but you belong to me
grown from where I used to be.
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Today, I will begin the story
of the rest of my life.
I will start to impart
the skips and bounds
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I should start writing.
Something,
anything
for you.
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I brought you out here tonight to look at the lights
they put together for Christmas.
You held onto my fingers,
The only ones that could fit into those tiny hands
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You intended it
to end
I did too.
We tried.
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You came
just when my arms were
too weak
and I could only
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You have come down
gracefully
from the heavens
to keep us together
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