Tag: confession

• Comraderie

  In the fight against the world, we fought on the same side, for the same cause. We’re brothers, you said Then you slept with other girls. You always wanted to be right. In love, you treated me like a woman. I tried to teach you to be my equal. But you only knew how to […]

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  December 20, 2021

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• Perennial

  I’m waiting for these orchids to bloom. At first I was skeptical because I don’t have good experience with keeping plants alive. I got into plants only a year ago, when I first bought this one. I bought them when we were talking and we first met. You were helping me with things. I stayed […]

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  December 19, 2021

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• Asking the postman

  I had a friend I knew since I was in middle school and over time we realized there was a bond that stood still among the ups and downs of life and more importantly through the changes and transformations in ourselves. In our late twenties we converged and being married was on our minds. When […]

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  December 18, 2021

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• They called me names

  They called me a heartbreaker Yet I’m but a truth-teller It doesn’t just roll off my tongue It is born in labor and earthquakes and devastation How much they hated me and I admit I enjoyed it I was a tower struck by lightning No, I was a lightning rod in a storm It shook […]

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  October 3, 2021

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