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One twig
maybe root
can’t see
yet clutch
hoping that
feet find
solid ground
pull up
put over
finally lay
staring up
at clouds
oh aren’t
they pretty

This

Just this
after all
I said
nothing much
more anyway
then this
is what
you’ll get
after you’ve
given all
else away

Chicago

What I didn’t 
lose I gave
away wanting nothing
to ever remind
me of what
was once everything
it is strange
now standing here
in this peace
eight long years
later being not
what I was
but what I
am and this
now this new
me will never
go back to
any of that
for that at
least to me
no longer exists
it is done

Damned

There is
a point
and I’ve
found mine

a place
of understanding
and unwillingness
be damned

this point
this place
go hand
in hand

where once
yours went
in mine
be damned

Hands

I remember your hands
as they held mine
I remember feeling them
sudsy and warm under
the tap as we
washed in the kitchen
I remember noticing them
wind their way through
my hair turning my
face towards your kiss
I remember your hands
slipping free from mine
that last and final
time that we parted