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  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI

  "you'll remember me, won't you?" nervously as your shaking fingers graze my own I giggle, of course, I say, it's only for two weeks and besides, It's not like we're in love. I don't know how but then strong hands pulled in my waist and everything I wa...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Ambiguity

  

  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI

  I wore my heart upon my sleeve Yours was not worn at all. Head over heels in love with you, You did not even fall. I thought you'd caught me early on- You'd hold me off the ground- You threw me to a sea of tears, Threw me so I would drown. A million miles away it seemed, Your mi...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Monster Hands

  

  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI

  Stingrays. In my eyes, stingrays. Stabbing me under the droopy lids, splashing salty water over my pupils. A shaky voice, a whispered “I’m sorry,” footsteps on the stairs, escaping, a door thunders closed from a hand— Was that my hand? Cold, bloody hand, monster hand, dry, cra...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  For Months I Walk

  

  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI

  Footsteps hit grey tile after grey tile after grey tile I walk. Steady pace, each footprint in the same place tile after tile after grey tile. For months I walk, same tiles, going nowhere. Same people, same thoughts, same place, going everywhere. Grey tile after grey tile. The tiles ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Over The Storm

  

  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI

  There it goes again, The rain. There’s something funny about it, That rain. Something funny about the way it makes me think of you. This all sounds cliché, I know; Cliché that the rain is all the tears I’ve cried Leading right back to you like a river. That the thunder is our laughter ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Innocent Fools

  

  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI

  This one’s for that shameless summer that came and went as fast as your heart through my blind grasp. This is for the evenings when the sun shown scarlet as it melted away under the Earth and revealed to us the stars that danced like fools in love. This is for the carnival with the roller coa...
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  White Walls

  

  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI

  White walls And a steady beeping From machines in the corner. The pungent scent of painkillers Dripping from soggy, cloudy bags Hanging from a speckled ceiling. Soft wrinkles fell over each other, Draped on the old women’s ghost-white face Like the white curtains On the white walls of the...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Ocean Thief

  

  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI

  Waves Crashing gently into my legs Washing shells In creamy shades of pink and orange and blue Onto the white sandy shores of Sanibel Island. Salty water soaks through my shorts, Cooling me from the setting sun, Refreshing like a drink of water As I run and laugh in the ocean. Suddenly, ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Liars

  

  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI

  Eyes flickering from wall to wall, Never quite meeting my teary glare, Fingers twitching with nervous guilt Now that my hand is no longer there, Feet tapping like a musician’s, Keeping the beat of your own lies, And tongue clicking as it spits words that don’t match The words I can read i...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Honesty

  

  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI

  I heard it through the grapevine, A watchful weapon above the world, a little birdie, Singing your secrets to the town Told me the awful truth. He said she said, the telephone jumbled the message; The deaf man declared all he discovered. The little boy cried wolf once again And showed me all...
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  Playtime

  

  By xxtennis13xx, Clarkston, MI