i write you the words
your fingers play melody
as your voice sings out
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i say i love you
you believe it's only words
it's my naked soul
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they never loved me
all the ones who said they did
to get what they wanted
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you're the beginning
i will be the end i fear
when you learn to know me
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pulling you to safety
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
with racing heartbeats
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still so young inside
with all the secrets of age
and misspent youth
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love's conundrum
lifetime promiscuity
constant innocence
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each day's a new bloom
fresh hopes for this newborn day
soon dead old flowers
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if i love at all
i will love too much i'm sure
for your cup to hold
i'll not speak the word
utter secrets of my heart
lest we both shall drown
you defy our fates
calmly hold love's cup to me
from which we both drink
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kiss the tiny bud
hiding in her rose's folds
sip its sweet nectar
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dream these many years
never thought that you were real
still cannot touch you
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gathered to my chest
arms about to lift you up
give the kiss of life
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who or what you are
of little matter to me
i love heart and mind
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you entered my dream
my eyes and heart followed you
until you left at dawn
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wanting to use me
that's the 'love' i've always known
someday... maybe... hmmmm
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do not weep for me
at the time of my real death
i've been dead for years
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what may be beauty
is what i feel beautiful
not some mass definition
Donovan Baldwin