Janet Willemien Mulligan Poems

Please let me follow in your footsteps
To be the one to become the best
I won’t evade what I know
I will share the light of the show
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Every time we speak
It's as if because I'm too weak.
Turning to me you seek,
And wanting to make me feel complete.
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There is only one thing in life that is true.
And that is you.
We walk around all day
Thinking we know everyone in some sort of way.
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It sheds a tear from my eye
And causes the pain of wanting to die.
Because there I can know why
Revenge is not sweet enough to let me cry.
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Should one day I be granted the courage I see
In which is carried so proudly in those surrounding me.

I will surge at the wall barricading me in
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One day, not so very long ago,
Began the union that born in woe.
And as the story tale goes,
It is said, that
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My shield has worn down;
I can feel the shadows all around.
How did I not sense this before?
These stabbing knives
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I am in my head and I live like the Divine
Witness to the mess of life in the flesh,
Of faster times and blessed shrines
My mind wanders as it climbs.
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I am so good at pretending
That is how I should be doing
This act of transcending
An incident has with it similar properties
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I wish I could say it's all or nothing
Just to save myself from bluffing;
Behind a hand dealt to me
Is the story I fight to break free
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