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Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 9th Nov 2015
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My story that this poem was written and came from happened when I was age 14.  I'd developed such a strong feeling of love for a young Japanese man from Hawai'i, totally head-over-heels.  But after six months, during a casual conversation with several middle-aged women which I overheard as I stood near, he spoke candidly with them about his being gay.  It was like the floor had dropped out from under me, and I pined over having lost him.  It was then I wrote my very first poem that I present to you here:
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BLEED
(my first heartbreak/break-up)

It was during that night, after dinner,
And tight on bottles of wine, your words
Hung sublime like crystalline birds.

And I, dazed from the sound as they passed,
Could only look at you through my glass
Held up to my gaze, and filled with wine,

And saw, with the passing of time how the
Candle's light imbued everything in a
red hue as I stared at you, intoxicated,

Till through my fingers, slipped, its descent
Lingered, the beat of my heart, hindered,
Shattered its perfection across the floor,

Just as my heart tore and came apart in a
Flood of wine: red as blood, painful to see,

As if my eyes had burst, but which would I
Notice first: the innocuous stench of sick,

Or the shards of glass' trick of the light.
Still, I bleed in your presence, my tears

Are bleeding; don't staunch the flow,
You've tipped the waiter, now
I beg you, please, just go.




https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/228429-bleed/




MsRockyJackson
Dangerous Mind
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Joined 1st July 2014
Forum Posts: 318

Amazing entry Jadey, it made me want to almost cry 😢

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