Gone

I wrote you poems
Likewise they are now long gone
So I just sit here

Hearing plaintive cry
Swiftly attend to assist
Old cat forgets doors

Maybe now its time
To learn to breathe for myself
Rather than for you

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Again nightmares come
Dream on knowing it won’t end
When I am awake

Your presence missing
Lost beneath the drooping boughs
My heart remains wrapped

Inescapable
Seeing you in all I read
Kisses on the wind

I was just sixteen
You were the light of my world
But I meant nothing

Here on city streets
My heart cries for the mountains
Where the smoke rises

I want to teach you
She looked straight into my eyes
Teach you to be free

Yours a perfect smile
Graced my life a few short days
Holding everything