My heart screamed,
“What about my hopes and dreams?
The magical things
That make me, me?”
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Magical Me
Category: Being Human
Indifference
Indifference is a condemned building
Crumbling to dust inside a heart
Boarded up and abandoned
Left to rot
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Write
Write to free the burdened mind
Write to mourn what's left behind
Write to fill the world with love
Write a prayer for a god above
Write to get you through the night
Write to save a stranger's life
Write to make the world make sense
Write without care for consequence
Write regardless of the words
Write so that your voice is heard
Write to free a soul locked tight
Write with rhyme for pure delight
Write of love or foe or friend
Just write and write then write again
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I Was You Yesterday
I was you yesterday
Broken down and broken hearted
Today, I begin my ascent with the dawn
And tomorrow, so can you
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Poetry Roulette: 80s Radio
Hello
I hear the secrets that you keep when you're talking in your sleep
Don't stand so close to me
Take these broken wings
I want to live the glamours life
All night long
That's my prerogative
Sweet dreams are made of this
It's a kind of magic
A total eclipse of the heart
Sweet child o' mine
Two of hearts
Livin' on a prayer
Don't stop believin'
That's the power of love
I wanna dance with somebody
Call me
I'm addicted to love
Never gonna give you up
What's love got to do with it
Love is a battlefield
I need a hero
Like a prayer
If it isn't love
It's a cruel, cruel summer
Highway to the danger zone
Do you really want to hurt me
I'm crazy for you
I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Time after time
I want to know what love is
Take my breath away
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A Love Song for Myself
I will write a love song for myself
A song of hope
A song so free
A song of everything I want to be
I will write a love song for myself
A ballad of returning
A ballad of ascension
A ballad celebrating my redemption
I will write a love song for myself
A tune for forging forward paths
A tune for changing ways
A tune for the coming better days
I will write a love song for myself
A triumphant magnum opus
A symphony of surrender and release
A life-renewing masterpiece
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How the Wind Came and Changed Everything
My curls dance around my face
As the wind kisses my cheeks rosy
These are the winds of change
Smelling of hope and promise
Action and evolution
The wind sings dreams of change to me
It pulls at my skirts
Kisses goosebumps onto my skin
Willing me to move my feet
Daring me to take a chance
Toward unwritten promise
I toss on my sweater
Pick up my notebook
Tamp down my hat
And walk toward the unknown
Wind cheering at my back
Celebrating the changing of everything
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Cup of Kindness
Save a cup of kindness for yourself
No one is more deserving of your love than you
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You Deserve to Shine
Be the brightest star
In your own sky
You deserve to shine
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When I Met You
When I met you
You were charming
But nowhere near perfect
You were charismatic
But endearingly flawed
You were looking for a party
But you accidentally found a home
When you met me
I was unapologetically myself
But I was naive
I was willing to take risks
But not necessarily with my heart
I was looking for experiences
But accidentally found connection
What I didn't know
Was what a damaged soul looked like
What I didn't know
Was that you were a blackhole gobbling the light
What you didn't know
Was I was a whole universe
What you didn't know
Was divine light cannot be devoured
We didn't begin as we ended
We started as a soft glow
Hopeful and carefree
I couldn't tell you when
I think the inferno began
I became the fuel that you would burn
Trying to fill your infernal yearning
The gaping emptiness inside of you
With a meaningful light
That once was me
I thought if I loved you enough
I would somehow be enough
To sate your appetite for more
But all you were was an insatiable maw
And I a blazing star
Who's fire was never bright enough
Who's light could never warm you up
Because black holes cannot be quenched
They can only demand - MORE
So I became a comet with a star at its core
My corona full of survival and fury
Breaking free of your event horizon
I would not be devoured by your darkness
Now no light surrounds you
You have consumed all else you had
Nothing orbits you but cold and quiet
The space around you dead
When you met me
We had hope we could love each other well
When I left you
Was to heal from just how far I fell
But I'm a girl with phoenix wings
And a star within my heart
I blaze a trail across the sky
As I make a fresh new start
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