Tanner Herndon

Rich with insanity,
Thick with hate,
Drunk with love,
Stinking of confusion,
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Eyelashes stuck in time,
Falling like leaves,
Stuck to our faces, they cling to safety,
Never wanting to let go,
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I left the door to my heart cracked open,
I lured you in with curiosity,
But what you saw, shocked you to the core,
You must have cried lava, when you saw what was in this heart,
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Come forth to write, leave not a thought,
To rot,
But a common enemy, in my mind,
Is set to stone, as the gargoyle,
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I have an inside joke
With Death-
'Knock, Knock, '
Who's there?
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I walked into the Barbershop
Dressed in all black;
The barber sat me down in a
Leather chair that swiveled
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I can ask nevermore,
That you seek comfort from these limbs,
I am rooted in a soil far more damning than,
Anything you have ever seen,
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Nobody dies alone,
Death, will not allow this,
Death will be right there waiting,
His black crow's wings spread open wide,
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You left us all cold,
In a hurry, you were, to arrive at
Death's door step,
You mustn't trip on the way there,
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The silk after taste, of drinking
Your eyes, the texture of dreams,
As you make them arise:
I am far from forbidding elation, with you
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Love.
And, how can you be in
Something in which you know
Nothing about?
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Manageable death
Manageable life
Manageable secrets
And laughter that the
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Out of cigarettes,
What will I do?
I am out of cigarettes:
Cancer sticks, bogies, ciggies,
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Why give name to
A poem?
It's not a pet, or something
To keep caged or to
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Keep not a poem
To yourself;
It is not for one person
But for person who
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I have a hard time
Putting a name on my
Poems:
Why try to domesticate
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Other poets really
Need to start reading and
Sharing their poetry, together;
Poetry is an endangered
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