aching for youth

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age, life, poem, poetry, youth

The muscle disappeared
my face gaunt
unshaven
aged
against weathered fence posts
aching for youth
instead finding ant beds
rust
broken wire and splintered ends

I just lay flat
not remembering the past
it all seemed too far away
tired
broken
unable to mend
the end

never again

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girls, homeless, lonely, poem, poetry, women, youth

unable to be strong
lost
alone
never returning home
homeless
despair
beware
of silence in the sun
worlds just begun
unknowing then fear
people who promise dear
bringing gifts of glint
gold or wine
glitter then shine
of clowns in cafes
sand on the beach
nights of cold
streets too damp
abandoned warmth
helpless youth
lonely young girls
never to be women
suppressed by men
never again

the bird

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birds, boys, death, egret, girls, life, love, magpie, night, poem, poetry, Relationships, youth

He sat in the lucerne’s centre
beyond the half empty dam
the bird lay flat
dead

Blood smothered one beautiful white wing
he rested the gun next to his unclean left boot
the wind had stopped
death

He willed the white bird back to life
drowning in anguish
horror
weakening his young stomach
disbelief

Just as the black and white bird
had reduced him to helplessness one year prior
there was no escape
his heavy head grated through to his spine

She could never be his
to own
even when they touched
he would sit alone
as he did today
night time approached