Poetry: Hurting - by Lauren Dymke

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by Lauren Dymke

Created on: January 23, 2012

Felt tip fingers softly, softly
Why is it your insides bleed, loved one?
Ache and heart hiccup.
You were never meant to be
A broken creature
A lonely creature
Bent down and brooding creature.
Don't stay small and sorry in that corner.
Breathe deep, loved one.
Step outside with injured limbs
The sunlight hurts, but you need it.

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Poetry: Hurting

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by Parin Waljee

I have been hurting all these year's

Feeling the pain and the loneliness,

Life has to go on I suppose but Im sure you don't
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by Lauren Dymke

Felt tip fingers softly, softly
Why is it your insides bleed, loved one?
Ache and heart hiccup.
You were never meant to
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by David Thackston

To the Father

Where have you been, why did you go away?
I have a picture of you…I was tempted to throw it away.
For
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by Missy Terry

I closed my eyes one night
With tears flowing down my face
They were warm to the touch
But the warmth was not comforting
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by Karlo Silverio Iii Sevilla

This pain was but a sword,
unsheathed but lying on the floor,
until I picked it up
and embraced its blade
so tight, so tight.

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