break up – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

TIME ON THE TIDES, PART 10; CREEPING ON THE CURRENT

Seep, seep, slowly shifting, sea skirts shore, holy water washing in, anointing, bless us, blessed, in warm and wanted waves that widen as we watch, as we welcome, unaware of being too welcome. Seep, sweep, seduce the shore into submissive before you break the kiss off and beat the beach with your creep, creep, […]

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CRASH

Did you wipe your feet upon my head before you walked over me? Allow me to bend first, at least. Was I so accustomed to your disregard that I could not feel you tearing through me, leaning on me, raiding me, raping me? Did you wipe your sweat across my brow to save yourself […]

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SILENT ABSENCE

Missing you, The silent absence, The stillness, The sadness, I close doors And pretend You’re behind them, I turn out lights And imagine You’re beneath them. But The silent absence, The loneliness, The moodiness, Says so much more About the distance Now dividing us Than all the noise We ever made When you were here. […]

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BLANK CANVAS

I thought it lonely To be together With so much standing In between, But now, In this solitude, These moments tick Like echoes Of what’s been lost, Like laughter Now fading, Like love Now separating, Like the time shared Now a fragment of another life, Another hold we let go of, Another force to fragile […]