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Best Poems From
AMANDA SAVELEY
(December 29,1987)
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The Hardest Part
Anyone can die...
We could all die tomorrow
And never know it
Yeah, we could all die tomorrow
And never feel this way again
Anyone can die
That's the easy part
Romeo and Juliet,
They thought they had it so bad
But the truth is,
They had nothing
Because they were a couple of whinyass kids
Who had it all
And never worked
They thought their love was so great
That they could not bear to part
But this all-time classic love
Is all shallow
All-physical
And all a lie
Because anyone can die
We could all dropp out at this moment
Without having loved at all
Love life,
Hate life,
In the end,
The pain's the same
Because anyone can die
You,
Me,
The sibling down the hall
The guy down the street
The starving baby in the third-world country
Do good,
Do bad,
In the end,
The fate's the same
But to throw it away
For land,
For money,
For sadness,
For love,
Is unbearably ignorant.
Because anyone can die for another
But the hardest thing to do
Is to live for another
To bear every extremety
Happiness
Sadness
Joy
Pain
Because anyone can die
That's not impressive
To live for someone,
That takes a lot
And sometimes,
It's more than one person can handle.
Amanda Saveley
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The Kill, Hallelujah, and A Modern Myth
To buy the truth
And sell a lie
I think right now
I have to say
Goodbye...
Goodbye...
So long, farewell
Goodbye...
Close the door
Turn off the lights
I'll close my eyes
Don't want to fight
Goodbye
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
So goodbye love,
Incoherent thoughts flood my memory
An epidemic of blank discretions
As crimson turrents flowing through
Tiny tubes so delicate
So easy silver edge strikes through
Knock out all security
And let the tide trickle through
So goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye love, bye
I'll close my eyes and say goodnight
Come,
Break me down...
Bury me, bury me
And I'll stop this fight
Just say goodnight
Goodbye.
Amanda Saveley
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The Plunge
I knew not what it was
When I looked upon it
Incoherent words
That weren't so incoherent at all
Only to me because
I do not trust
I barely love
But if I love I love hard
Which kills me when I fall
Not IF I fall
Just when
I trust him
Can I really love him?
He says he loves me.....
But so did the one before...
Do I trust?
Do I take the plunge?
Or do I stand on the diving board
Just looking at the sides
Amanda Saveley
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The Razor's Always Sharpest in Someone Else's Hands
My heart...
Dark and bloodied with the weight of sin
Cut one too many times,
My hand more than any
But I can't hold the blade like I used to
Fingers too shaky
Expert jagged lines
My name embedded in each
Yes...
My heart is too blackened to give
Even if I should gather the pieces
To give you even one
The sharp edges would cut you
My sin would be written in your features
The sad eyes I cannot cast mine own upon
For you...
Your sorrow...
Cuts me deeper than I ever could.
Amanda Saveley
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