Past Life – Poem (2010)

It’s a run-down sort of thing

Making wishes in a well-pennied heap

On hard rock I’ve soiled my dreams

Hopes tossed into an empty stream.

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I’m so disappointed,

Not because I’m without you

Because life’s love’s choices,

Bled colors I can’t dilute.

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Tried again and again

to wash the past away

Choices you’ve made

Haunt the yester and today.

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You’re not willing to change.

Update your beliefs

You believe in luck

But numbers speak.

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Corroded copper

Don’t try to stop her

You’re okay with throwing it away

She’s hurt,

She’s done,

She’s gone.

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Waited for your awakening

and saw glimpses of light

found myself reflected

in pennies, hardly bright.

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I’ve held you in my heart

hoping for things to renew

But now, I’m just blue.

Over.

lost pennies

and you.

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© Michelle Ferris, 2010