Fort.com
I was me for 25 years. We were one for 10. How I am supposed to trust anything anymore?
Com-fort not
For my fort is gone
Only walls now
guarding my dead citadel
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Strength in protection
Love in imperfection
Bonds and bondage
Roses and thorns
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Addition becomes addiction
Subtraction becomes attraction
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I'm stuck here
counting the fault in our stars
and how many earthly sins I can take
before I confess in your arms.
My friends sit comfortably in the back yard
counting shooting stars
sipping whiskey
and you're telling me to trust
the maths that I never understood.
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I dig my fingers in the keyboard
As when I stroke your hair
Fort.com; only the signal is flatlining
…Time is too much of a distance to count
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⚜ For my late husband.
⚜ The loss of comfort as I knew it.
⚜ Pictures are selected and combined in a collage to capture the aesthetic imagery and symbolism of the poem.
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About the Creator
Jessie Wylder
Writing has been my safe place, my antidote to grief, my love language, my psychonaut trips.
I'll give you what we all need; a hand, a shoulder, an empty page to sign your existence.
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