Talents

Mar 16
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I am, today and yesterday

Ungrateful and as

Years pass on wherever

More and more aware of this

Taking without pause what good is given me

Rejecting every pain

Can I not with my gifts be pleased?

First kiss passed over liqored lips and racing heart

Beat

Bleeding alone in the rain

The ever endless sky bending the horizon

Fit to break

This ever fractured heart

All a glitter

Each a gem

Cast from heaven, down to mud

And yet I haggle

Not enough

Tomorrow

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