Eli J Tod

**LoVe**

Is blind They say
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The word

“Love”
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Dress up, dolls,
A fake string of pearls,
My mother you have always
Made up my world.
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I can’t stop smiling
When I’m with you
I can’t stop staring
When I’m with you
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Rugged, cold
Impersonal
Roars to life
At a touch.
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Stop the clock
Just grab the minute
Make your world rock
Just be right in it
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Take
These Broken Wings
The World
set upon the flutter
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The heart that should have shattered
I cannot seem to find
The words I had rehearsed
Keep flowing through my mind
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I have to stop thinking
How perfectly I fit with you
I need to focus on breathing
Now that you have found someone new
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What’s spinning in my head
Is destined to stay
Lest it pass my lips
And the world comes crashing down.
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Sit still.
I just can’t seem to
Grasp this absurd concept.
Be still.
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Graphite guided by
Emotion
Simple HeaRT
Tiny,
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The words i want
to flow from my pen
will bring me here
and back again
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layer after layer
falls away to the fire
leaving behind
raw, unchanneled
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Fiery breath

Threatening to consume
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You smile and I
Lose all the things
I wanted to say to you
I think and then
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i wish that i could tell you
about this feeling so strong
but i know it cant be true
it feels so right it must be wrong
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Curling my hair and practicing my smile
My reflection looks anxious
Twisting the locks to perfection
I head out the door.
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Cupid is the drug lord
Of these dark and dangerous Times
Dealing with the Guilty
Spinning chaos to rewind
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Tussling my hair with a towel releasing whiffs of sweet shampoo
Open the door to the hallway
Feeling
Calm, Refreshed
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