Myra Jefferson Poems

When you let go it shouldn't be from exasperation or futility
You let go still maintaining hope for other possibilities
When you let go you know the reason
That it's the season
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The team moved to a different state
without me
But I made it anyway-late
Apparently
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I am totally and completely in awe of them
These two dimensional forms and figures
These variations in sound waves
The power they possess is beyond my comprehension
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I like where I am I love how it feels
What I see what I hear what I taste what I smell
I plunge into showers of coming attractions
I dress in the remnants of sweet satisfaction
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Take my hand
understand

Pull me near
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Clarifying, justifying, and qualifying
of the mystifying existence ceased when
a truce was called
between gratification and restraint
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Hello Miss, would you like to
Before you go on, no thank you
But did you know, and may I show
That's okay, thanks anyway
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He's loving and kind, working hard for a living
With me on his mind, he's thoughtful and giving
Handling my fragile heart with the utmost care
He's a tough and tender teddy bear
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Two of us started up the hill
Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee
Tweedle Dumb, you thought you had it made
Tweedle Dee didn't trust Dee Cee
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Why my baby boy sittin' here lookin so poly
on a fine Saddy nite like dis?
Why don't you git out
and go sportin' about
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