Ruth L. Rivers Poems

My black hole
A vortex unimaginable
sucking the colors
out of the blue
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Oh heart...Where are you?
Come out of hiding dear one,
Come out into the shine of the sun
And the warmth of friends
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Tear down the walls to your ears and hear my words sing, reaching in to some other order. Contained inside your being, seeing another side, another life. Reach in to the abyss, miss the dark and hold to order. Create new words aching out, shout the madness and life turning, turning, turning round.

Here I am
Splash to your being
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Aren’t Emotions fickle friends
With their wandering ways
And their subtle serenades
Jumping from one terrific trend to the next
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There were two of us that night…
Then why is me and not you who feels sullied
There were things said in the dark…
That I’d hoped to forget for the rest of my life
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'Did you see the many acts? ' I cried

'Indeed, I did.' says she
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Do you ever wonder what it would have been like
If all you had with worry was a moment of little bliss
And your days of sunny rainbows were never passing
Just one daily joy after another with all the benefits
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So this is my pain and what does it matter?
It has drained me of life love and laughter.
I yearn to be invisible apart of the wall
standing or sitting just not noticed at all
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How quickly have you grown
My now embraced sleeping one
Your eyelids closed with silence
Your breath steadied by my love
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As I stumble over a friends neatly written script
Words tumble down over all the other dancing bits
Refresh these tangled and twisted thirsting roots
Wash out the used and the past abused truths
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