Sabrina Fair
My Illusions
memories in my pocket
promise in my hands
one eye in the socket
that can blink on command
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somewhat disconnected
I'll rebuild who I am
happily, dejected
often caught in up, a jam
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going through all the motions
with my Sunday best on
a dingy on the ocean
waiting anxiously for Amazon
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a special delivery
meant only for me
self-contradictory beauty
from my family tree
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a touch on my shoulder
from a stranger I should know
didn't know I had grown older
lost in my own afterglow
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an empty skull, full of questions
a fractured heart, with doubt
a thoughtful suggestion
the backdoor, way out
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no sense for the senseless
and some morphine on tap
a work still in progress
with my hands in my lap
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my daily illusions
show up right on time
to avoid the confusion
I will label them, mine
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Kelli Sheckler-Amsden
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She loves me
She loved me. When I was small and my wee stayed to the paper. When I was rumpled skin and floppy big paws and big eyes looking up and waiting for her hands to find me, scooping me up and bringing me into her. And we were happy, so happy, so very, very happy. I was so happy to see her and danced my circles so she'd know how much I wanted nothing more than for her to hold me. I'd wrap, wiggle, wiggle and wrap my growing body with my bestest happy dance, slumping and kerplumping into her warm parts just like she liked me to. She was there and I was there, and we were there together, and it was perfect. Oh, how she loved me! We spent all our time together, playing inside, outside, up, down, going round and round. And she petted me and called me good girl when I made poops, and sometimes when I weed in her front yard or the neighbor's, and I was the best girl. For her, I really was! And she scratched me behind my ears, and it was heaven. I aowooo my joy! And she aowoooed hers too.
By Christy Munson6 days ago in Fiction
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Sounds like life to me.
You are an exceptional poet
This was so freaking amazing!
Nice work!
Your smashing them out today, all sorts and types. This allows me to use the "trying to catch Kelli" excuse should it happen to come up in conversation! 😊
Claim them as your own.