Tears at the Roots
A collection of poems about blood
Reck Everything
Pay Heed child
Pay
blood
sweat
And tears
Because
You will,
settle and soften
love and grieve
live and die
So pay heed child
Pay your gods everything
You owe a debt
to the life you’ve been given
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In the shadow of a rose
How can we call it
a beautiful goodbye
When we are never ready to say it
Why are the strongest among us
the ones we say goodbye to first
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Honeysuckles on the fence
Do you ever think about
how much you've forgotten
like how grandmother's house
was dark and covered in vines
the attic was a dusty labyrinth
filled with
treasures from childhood's long gone
It's where we danced to Gwen Stefani
singing B A N A N A S
it was an old house
too big for 1 person
too big for just occasional laughter
the swing in the back broke
the garden overrun
the fish pond a mosquito bed
I wonder if there
are still honeysuckles along the fence
if those sweet memories still exist
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When you lay down
When you lay with your last breath
Do not ask for me
I will not come
I have already shed tears for you
I have already mourned
Who I thought you were
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Grandmothers’ Cat
You fall asleep sitting upright in a chair
because all of the beds and couches are filled.
Now comes the mourning.
The cat
that only loved your grandmother
comes and curls up in your lap.
I think that means she’s still here
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Tremors
Symptom
And
Side effect
Hands jitters
Quakes
Shakes
And unbalanced
Try to balance
Unavoidable
Tremors in life
Shake you so hard
You nearly fall off your feet
Jittery quakes and shakes
Call it dancing with no tune
But hey
Look mom
We match
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