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Led to wonder
On my nightstand rests a sharpie I’ve been using for reminders and as I picked it up this morning I saw next to it some warnings words that played with my head old laments, things you said I looked out the window and past memories flashed by as it often happens when I try to understand why too many a simple thing you could never clarify Instead chose to lead me on when you’d already moved on left me hanging one more time like a seasonal pastime Now my wandering mind sees I was foolishly blind how I ignored my devotion to a charlatan with no emotions and all the…
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Snow in July
The cows would come home, snowed in July, lilies bloom in the Sahara the Nile gone dry before a single atom in your body learns how to commit to one I saw a way out and I took it didn’t come easy a decision but sometimes better be a quitter had to eat my words for even thinking you could take me seriously, shapeshifter ashamed to admit my naivety ashamed to have wandered aimlessly for on the shakiest of grounds I searched for stability Not my problem anymore still truehearted you’re not but can’t help but wonder, did I get away for being too wise? Is it always only the…
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Replaceable (excerpt)
If they’re intimidated by the thorn, they don’t deserve the flower. It’s taken a lot of tears and a self-diagnosed clinical state of denial to reach this emotionally intelligent level. I’ve come to understand that you can have a heart of gold—the biggest, softest, and kindest of them all, and genuinely believe deep within your soul that you’re one of a kind and that you deserve fairness and all the best vibes. And, after you convince yourself that everyone else around you also thinks so, someone you actually care about will remind you that, nope, you’re not all that good stuff you thought you were. You’re replaceable. Even if your…
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Seduce Me to Use Me (Excerpt)
See all books at links below iBooks | Smashwords | Amazon He saw, he craved. He thought he had to have it, so he chased, until he caught his prey. But like a toy, his prey got old and he grew bored of it. So on to his next expedition he went. They say all is fair in love and war. All the irrational decisions we make to keep someone in our life when we’re under their spell or to save ourselves when we fall out of love — the grief and the bliss of it all is validated after all. And in these times of “situationships,” this brief story…
