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questions

questions burn
pages turn
still some secrets
I must learn

behind, our past
don't look back
nothing there
but smoke and ash

still, the dreams
my mind screams
waylaid answers
I get it seems

in between
crisp, fresh sheets
love starts over
for you and me

one more time
it's all fine
still I wonder
if your heart's mine

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between wonder and love

they meet in the middle
between east and west
between sunrise and sunset
somewhere between dependence and indifference

they meet in the middle
between unsure and surreal
between unopened and unsealed
somewhere between give and take

they meet in the middle
between rain and sun
between ended and just begun
somewhere between fact and fiction

they meet in the middle
between forgiveness and grace
between bittersweet and a honey taste
somewhere between wonder and love

somewhere between blue sky and monsoon
once again, they meet in the middle

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can't

she took the word can't, and threw it away

changed it to can, that very same day

took the frown, turned it upside down

erasing the wrinkles, creased in her brow

things started changing, not always first try

but again and again till she got it right

it seemed to get easier, to figure things out

and so she moved quicker, erasing the doubts

I'm never going back, to the ways of the old

so onward and upward, on this road she rolled

her outlook had changed, her life had improved

and all she had done, was that can't was removed

Poetry by M.J.B. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License