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I should not be here I know I shouldn’t just walk right in But the door is open Deep inside I know it’s wrong But deep inside it feels ok Actually it feels really really good Just to be here When I first arrived I was cautious and tentative I could tell you felt the same by your Careful words and gentle coaxing Come here Opening wider Slowly revealing more with each touch of the knob With each breath pulling me inside Shallow at first Then quicker Opening the door Come in I t...

sailboats like headstones anchored, drifting between worlds cemetery bay

I know we are into deep summer When I hear the cicadas sing Ever since I was a young girl On summer holiday I marveled at the chorus that Ebbed and flowed through the trees We used to call them locusts Before we knew better I imagined each summer That they would eat all the leaves Then the woods would look Stark and bleak and barren Like a plague in the Bible But they are just cicadas And their song is a constant calm To my weary worries It pulses through me Centers me to the present Wa...

A road crew is working on the guard rail To repair the part that severed you From this world It seems wrong for it to look Shiny and new I passed by only a few minutes before Travel that road every day to and from The place where I work Just like you Although I only know you as Local man I feel a kinship And now that you are gone A void It seems wrong for it to look Shiny and new They should have kept the rail As you left it Your signature A memorial of the day You were driven away

It's not just that you were my first love, it's that you were the first one who loved me.