Amy Backus Poems

We embraced in a dream
but that’s all it was.
I felt your kisses and your arms around me once more
and it felt so real.
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I sit here in silence
where it's so dark that I can barely trace
the shadow of smoke escaping from my lips.
I'm secluded here with the squeaking chains of the swing set,
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We dance through disaster
and leave footprints across the past
We're getting lost,
tumbling down the rabbit hole in pain
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Life is propped up textbooks
and rug burned elbows

weeks with not enough days
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A dry, brittle throat hides the voice
I’ve been searching for throughout my life

I lost something along the way,
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