Essie Ops Poems

I love you, but I hate you too,
Caught in a web of want and rue.
I wish you'd come, but not too near,
To share my joy, but not my fear.
...

you left me with silence
and I still tried to make it a song.

I sat with the empty spaces
...

I didn't chase you this time
and maybe that's growth
or maybe it's just exhaustion.
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I watch the way their hands clasp together,
how laughter spills like a ball of yarn—
weaving them closer,
weaving me away,
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Her warmth curdled my icy hold —
she's taken my breath away.

She's been choking my lungs with flowers,
...

I blink.
I sigh.
I look down—
and cry.
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