dead before I died Poems

Down in the water
by the edge of the river
where time stands still,
.....if only forever.
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When I was so much younger then,
when I was just a child,
I remember the words my mother said
on the night my mother died,
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Foolish girl! Dam foolish heart!
thinking
that she's in love,
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Halfway between
hell and heaven,
out of sight
from God and the devil,
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As alone, as he will ever be
in his blanket fast asleep,
a baby dreams of the only face
that he will never see.
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I took her home,

she died today
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TELL ME!
sweet mother!
MOTHER OF MY LIFE!
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And I shall

never know
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In the condensation on my mirror,
I scribbled these words in haste,

for soon they'l disappear
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Everything I am,

and all that I will be,
...