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Best Poems From
JESSY LIZ
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Circus Act
Where am I? And for God's sake what am I doing?
Constantly walking a tightrope..
I am bound one day to fall..
Waiting all the while..
For my final stage call..
'Ladies and gentlemen, '
I can hear them say..
'The greatest show to be seen today..
What this girl is about to show you..
Can be seen no other place..
Watch her walk this tightrope in beauty and with grace..
A thousand feet high she'll fool you all
She may slip, but never falls!
In this act, no room for err..
So open your eyes, if you dare..-'
Come on, they're all counting, too
To see if you will make the move
Should you break, they wouldn't wait-
And they'd no longer venerate..
Each step taken with deliberation
The outcome lost in anticipation.
Jessy Liz
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Closure
I have found closure.
I've stumbled upon it
And thrived on it.
I've slipped into it,
Oh, the irony.
This closure has silenced me.
Jessy Liz
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Collide
You've got me gasping for air.
You're playing for keeps
And I'm playing the tease-
You're running your hands through my hair.
I don't know what to do.
Things are going too fast
But we're making this last-
And I'm acting a fool.
I can't fight this strength,
This passion,
This heat-
Inside of me.
You've got me asking questions.
How did this happen-
This beauty, this magic?
How could this be?
See at the end of the night
I know one thing for sure
When we're fighting, we're lying
We'll still come back for more.
It's in our chemistry,
In our DNA-
Like a well-timed reaction-
A statement of fact, and-
A matter of when-
We'll collide.
Jessy Liz
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Coming Undone
Your breath on my skin after so long-
It seems so surreal, but prolonged.
Your hand goes to my neck as I stand against you..
And I shrug at your touch- it's too much too soon.
So many months have gone by.
I've been thinking of you but all the while-
I question your position,
And I speak with hesitation.
Nothing is real,
Between the breaths that we steal.
We're just squinting our eyes against the sun..
Blinded by the colors and coming undone.
We can't see that we've wounded with misguided steps,
That we're bleeding from the backs that we've turned inept..
And we settle here.
Somewhere in the shade where we don't have to be too near..
I can't remember the days
When that same touch was like breathing and feeling felt safe.
This light is stinging my eyes..
But I turn to you and we pretend that the sun always comes out at night.
Jessy Liz
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