waken to sadness
live another empty day
to sleep or to die
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just once to matter
to be in someone's first thoughts
loved for who i am
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i've declared my love
in halls of empty echoes
hearing only my voice
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i am poetry
i don't have much more to say
take it or leave it
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it's easter sunday
no celebration for me
or those of my kind
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come to me naked eve
let's commit those sins again
which led to this eden
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i'm driven to write
i must do this thing or die
mad words in my mind
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don't love a poet
for poet has a lover
who is loved much more
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her rose blooms again
as his caresses return
along petals' path
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ADHD
i forget you see
written words keep me connected
to the thought just past
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don't be jealous dear
poetry keeps me alive
so i can love you
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wanted to please you
but this poet never can
as many times before
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why this constant pain
why this lifetime of despair
why this love trapped inside
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we walk side by side
trail of clothing on the floor
from door to the bed
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too sweet and fragile
for this warrior poet
wanting to love her
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afloat together
within love's most passionate waves
on erotic tides
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why turn so cold love
was i not who you hoped for
why so much silence
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might be dead next week
or here twenty years from now
you can never know
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wanted to love her
but she wanted to use me
how it always is
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came to earth this way
old and ugly since my birth
never lived then died
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i look up at mars
wonder what sort of greeting
a stranger would receive
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we're both strangers here
in this land where love's a crime
a crime in itself
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no celebration
holy rite or ritual
moves my empty heart
Donovan Baldwin