Rivi Rose

Take me to bed
In the forest
So I can feel the cold damp earth
Against my naked back
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You said I was what you wanted
After I unzipped my skin
And stepped out a different person
Because who I was wasn't enough
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I'm haunted by the ghosts
Of men
Who came into my life and
Shook it up
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for a beautiful man
who will not read this
but should know
that getting to know him
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When the air is still
And crisp
And not a sound is heard
As the sharpest of minds
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I lost a lot of me
To be enough for you
I deserve someone
Who makes me their
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We have made love
A thousand times
Over hundreds of
Years
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even the
mightiest mountains
are shaped
by their experiences.
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I ate the fruit that I could reach
But you were unable or
Unwilling to shake more to the ground
So I tried climbing your trunk
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A candle burning
In a lit room
Still illuminates
It's just not
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You are why
Poets write
Artists paint
Masters compose
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Grief invades your ears
And ruptures your eardrums
With a deafening roar
That leaves everything else
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