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  March 2024     1 month ago

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Memories Painted Red

Memories painted red
Play inside my head
My soul aches for release
A painstaking grief

Time never stops,
An incessant ticking clock
With granting of time
Without reason or rhyme

My desire is to say
Goodbye to yesterday
Memories...

– by Heather Gilbert

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Wake Up

How did I get here? Where is my self worth?
Yet here I am, and there is no escape
It’s time to face a monster reality
Those moments have passed,
There is no going back.

There once was a love that rivaled
The sonnets of Shakespeare, the...

– by Heather Gilbert

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Run?

Running ragged, breathing fast
One, two, three, four…
Foot falls quicken, heart rate stutters
You can’t afford to hit the floor

Run the race, don’t falter now
Seconds, hours, weeks, years…
No time for slow…time is money
Don’t look now,...

– by Heather Gilbert

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Perfect Lies

Perfection is a lie and curse
We struggle with images we’ve cast
Only to live and die and die as we live.
I find myself asking a question.
Do we truly live as we strive for this lie?
Or, are we just biding time? Tick. Tock.

Humanity is...

– by Heather Gilbert

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Music box

Aging dreams, a reverie
Drifting through this sleepless mind
A melody sweetly sings
On repeat but winding down

Life is like a music box
Growing through the wind
Feel the tension, the apprehension
In forming life’s dance and melody

How...

– by Heather Gilbert

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