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Coming up short

A penny dreadful second chance
mixed with a dollar store romance…
Why do you think that friction
will improve your fiction
when it’s too shallow to enhance.

Love remains

Oh, how I watch you with pride,
my once-blushing bride.
In the years I’ve been gone
while you fought to stay strong,
I never left your side.

Gone but not forgotten

The bar,
Saturday night.
He drank away his grief
and just tried to forget about
His wife;
he hadn’t seen her in ages
but he could still feel her –
her touch, her smile…
Oh God;
it’s been two years…
She suddenly got sick
and before they knew what to do…
She…She…
She couldn’t leave.
He’d never left her side,
so she would not abandon him.
Not now;
when he needed all of her strength
to put down the liquor,
to stand back up
and live.

Hidden

I have a world inside of me,
a place which no one else can see
but if you wish to seek the truth,
to part my veils and find the proof…
Not all you’ll find is pretty.