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Best Poems From
RANI TURTON
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If I Close My Eyes
If I close my eyes, I can see you standing there
If I open them, you're gone.
Ah, mystery of imagination
The cold, waking dawn;
The heart that waits,
That fitfully longs, sighs, flutters
In varied emotional states.
Now that I know that it works that way
Let me close my eyes: let me believe
Utterly in phantasmagorical reason;
There is yet time enough to grieve.
When I wake; when I realise
That this fantasy was just a tissue of lies.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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If I Had Been Different Long Ago
If I had been different long ago
I might not have been here now:
If I had been more defiant, less trusting
I would have had much more to show.
My parents never told me
The world can hurt and agress;
If they had been more clever
They could have explained the worry and the stress.
Now older and more defiant
I find life has passed me by
I tried to build my happiness
But on the road it does, wounded, lie.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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If I Should See You Again
If I should see you again
Across some busy Parisian street
If I should see your face as I've longed to
For years, for so many years
Will I just stand there stupidly
My face wet with tears?
But wait, there's more to come.
I'll probably just stand and watch
You walking swiftly from sight.
If I could have my freedom and words-
And I no longer want to be so weak:
Then I would probably find my courage and speak.
Rani Turton
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If I Tell You Not To Go
If I tell you not to go
Will the drumming of this heart cease
If I feel the warmth of your hands
I will only want much more
Dawn, pale and silent
Will sprinkle the windowpane with light
The city will awake
And it will no longer be
Dark night
If I tell you not to go
Will this story finally end
Will confession of emotion
Bring about a conclusion
Or will will I continue to pretend
That life continues anyway
That dawn gives way to day
And day just fades away
Just fades away,
If I asked you not to go
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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