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Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546
missouri

0 posted 2014-04-14 09:20 PM



Sometimes just talking to you
tempts me to write...
...but I don't...I don't
Because writing makes it real
and it's not.
It's just smoke and mirrors,
a fantasy gone bad.
In the light of day
I can see this so clearly
but comes the night
and I'm wrapped up in that
oh so bad fantasy...
...dreaming...wishing
reaching for my pen to write...
...but I don't.
You aren't worth my words,
my tears,
the pain that would bleed
with each drop of ink.
So I don't write
I don't dream
I don't measure each breath
between your calls
I don't...I really don't.


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BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
1 posted 2014-04-14 09:22 PM


Lots of raw emotion..
Great poem, really love it!!

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2014-04-14 09:28 PM


Ahhh . . . Except for tonight. Still, this write isn't what you would love to write, those words of . . .
quote:
oh so bad fantasy...
...dreaming...wishing

No, tonight's write is about you not penning him your passions and desires.


~*~ Love is friendship set on fire. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
3 posted 2014-04-14 10:42 PM


This is a winner! You take the reader to the same painful places you don't want to go...

Lori

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499
Florida
4 posted 2014-04-15 10:42 PM


Enjoyed this Paula, although I am sure it pains you to write it. Jo
JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
5 posted 2014-04-23 12:34 PM


fine writing...James
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