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I tried to define moonlight
I stood at my window grabbing
Opalescent feathers that floated
Kissing the smooth cement
Quills dipped in the night sky
The universe was trying to tell me something
Before I knew what people being people meant
I had a pair of light up shoes
Fighter jets embroidered paralyzed
In the heat of battle
They made noise too
Pew pewwww woosshhh
Every tenth step I reincarnated
A KIA
Before I figured out I couldn’t fly
I learned to skip stones
I was never any good at it
Most of the time they would hit the water
And sink on the spot
Plunk
But there was a rare time or two
When I found just the right pebble
The most perfect ***** rock I have ever seen
And threw it away
Just to see it bounce a few times
And feel like moonlight
Soft, perfect
And before I had enough sense to be quiet
I wrote love letters to
You
Would tear them up and leave them floating in a bathroom stall
cause the thought of them bothering your eyes
gave me stomach knots like white knuckles wrapped around my gut
and before I came showed up here
I had never known what It was like
To watch a woman move with warmth
Like 6 shots of scotch
And dance like she was in a building burning down
In slow motion
Churning to the sweep of phoenix wings and gray ash
Before I realized that I might die alone
Before I met myself
Before, before, before.
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before i knew how to lie
Date: Sunday, 2nd October 2011 @ 01:30:05 AM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: simonwrite

Before I knew how to lie
I tried to define moonlight
I stood at my window grabbing
Opalescent feathers that floated
Kissing the smooth cement
Quills dipped in the night sky
The universe was trying to tell me something
Before I knew what people being people meant
I had a pair of light up shoes
Fighter jets embroidered paralyzed
In the heat of battle
They made noise too
Pew pewwww woosshhh
Every tenth step I reincarnated
A KIA
Before I figured out I couldn’t fly
I learned to skip stones
I was never any good at it
Most of the time they would hit the water
And sink on the spot
Plunk
But there was a rare time or two
When I found just the right pebble
The most perfect ***** rock I have ever seen
And threw it away
Just to see it bounce a few times
And feel like moonlight
Soft, perfect
And before I had enough sense to be quiet
I wrote love letters to
You
Would tear them up and leave them floating in a bathroom stall
cause the thought of them bothering your eyes
gave me stomach knots like white knuckles wrapped around my gut
and before I came showed up here
I had never known what It was like
To watch a woman move with warmth
Like 6 shots of scotch
And dance like she was in a building burning down
In slow motion
Churning to the sweep of phoenix wings and gray ash
Before I realized that I might die alone
Before I met myself
Before, before, before.

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