valerie jaeger Poems

don't be afraid, baby
just slip out of your skin
wander in
enjoy the air on your bones;
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a name is written here
upon my heart.
it burned this melting fiery path
that descended
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for the darkness,
i have dedicated hours, destroyed
the minute hand and
banished sense entirely.
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you are
what i tell you to be. i
and i alone
give you your identity;
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Settled in the rift between two people,
she hears them asleep
in Life;
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i read in the newspaper about
a young woman raped
by an aquaintance;
she decided not to press charges,
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they say nothing can live
in the frost-bound coldness
of december, but here,
unfolding despite this bitter air:
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Other poets express it best
in rhyme i would not hope to imitate.
THEIR words could pierce that icy heart
far better than i could.
...

if i stand beside you,
look into your
eyes,
i can almost see a world;
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if i stand beside you,
look into your
darkened eyes,
i can almost see a world
...