Tori Bachue Poems

Temptation, your face
But I won't give in
I can't surrender
Live your life, with her -
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You jump in life, in a bliss
With me watching up at you
Locked down in chains of apathy and self-hatred
Kneeling down without a choice
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The wheel of the year
Turns and turns
The world kept moving
When I died.
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You never laugh
It seems
Not truly
Reserved in delight
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I see what is not there

Her, falling towards me
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I was about to run

But something made me turn
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These false signs are hard to resist

Like a bouquet of flowers
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What flows underneath
Drops of this could save a life
If you stayed – I’m here
Maybe you just didn’t look hard enough
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It's never enough, it just keeps coming
And stormy waterfalls
don't bring any peace
As I listen to your rain
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Two different states of being
I moved to the plane of falsity long ago
But as I smile and joke
With each passing tragedy
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