Poem Pages

   in the writing 

on those pages

   i just fell deeper

and deeper 

   wrapping your

words around me

    like a 

comforter against

  the cold

I was enveloped 

     by my

      love

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I hate

how susceptible

I am to the niceness

of being liked

I have my priorities

straight

don't get me wrong

I'm not stupid

but sometimes I feel

inklings of tempting

that I 

wish I could just 

shut down

------

I don't know how to say it

how to drip these emotions

lace them with heavy

words of meaning

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I never thought I could grow this

comfortable with someone

enjoy the company of another so much

I cannot believe that you

think that without you I would be the same

don't you realize the effects you've

had on me?

each time you touch me I can

feel my eggshell skin breaking and 

you pull me out before we collapse

down laughing

(if there is one thing you are 

not it is shy)

at least not under my eyes

with your long black lashes.

when you grasp me

close I feel that I may

wonderfully 

disappear

in the space between

your arms