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Sleep I do

Sleep I must

Dreams they woo

Dreams they dust

Wake I too

Wake I trust

Day we shoo

Day we bust

Night it soothes

Night it shush’s

America

It’s with a heavy

Heart that I admit

That I am scared

Breakups are never easy

Yet here we are

Once had now gone

I will miss you

And what you promised

I did love you

But then you cheated

With the one that

You promised to avoid

You promised me that

Never shall we mingle

And yet you did

I should’ve expected it

Seduction is always sweet

Until the apple bitters

And it always does

Triumphs

Never minimize your accomplishments

For to one what

Might seem like a

Pebble and to another

A stone yet another

A rock to many

A boulder and to

Most the mountain don’t

Forget that whatever lays

In the path has less

To do with their

Size and much more

To do with how

We perceive them to

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Laying here in darkness

Listening to you breathe

Reminded of yesterday and

So many other yesterday’s

That now here turn

Backwards like the pages

Of a forgotten book

Abandoned as we picnicked

On those autumn afternoons

The beauty we are

Is not what has

Already been written but

What is yet to

Write and then to

Read in the dark

While you are sleeping

Stone

I hear that song

And think of you

Wherever that you are

Whomever you are with

The memories skeeter past

Like stones that skip

Across a languid lake

And disappear far yonder

Near the other bank

The far other side

Which I cannot reach

Until I myself become

A stone which dunks