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I Held Her
I Held Her I Held Her: Handwritten in pencil February 2006 I held her In the night While she shuddered and cried “It isn’t fair” she said And I remembered thinking Nothing ever is I held her In my heart All that spring Smoke stacks belched sooty vermin On wet soil And my filthy black snow soul melted In corners the sun never touched And in the depths her heart As if she had never been touched Pain knelt before me Like a closed corner tavern In faces I'd never seen Scarred by my so called love Where dirty cobwebs Saw half lidded eyes and dusty flecks In our mourning morning sun Baking in stale<b> beer </font></b>and despair. You could smell defeat In the sticky dingy carpet And nicotine stained walls. |
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