Akiva Roberts

Waking from this darkness
a dream of you
a dream of your smile
a dream of your beautiful head nodding
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Staring at this screen and this key board and this phone and all these people calling in.
When are they going to realize that I just don’t give a blank!
I don’t want to help you I don’t want to talk to you!
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Sitting.
Alone.
On this dark dark night.
Waiting.
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I love the way
you love
to love.
So early in the morning.
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Trying not to lose my mind in this crazy paranoia
Fear striking blackness
Like ink through my heart
Dripping with the sarcasm of trust and betrayal.
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Sitting
Quietly and
Alone
In a
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Building blocks of life
fill my head
with dreams:
white picket fences;
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Swimming through darkness
searching in vain for the light
unshed tears fill my eye
wandering paths unseen
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All this space waiting to be filled, with words,
With lies, with hope, with dreams, with lies,
With hate, with love, lost amid the white
Waiting for my castle – your castle
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Finding your body in this darkened room,
Covers bunched
Around you, your own private cocoon.
Fingers spayed, seeking
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steaming mug of
coffee waiting to
be drank
steaming quietly
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