June Daily Poetry Challenge 2022

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I am tired

I am tired

I am tired

I Sleep fitfully

Wake restlessly

I am tired

I am tired

I am tired

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My voice leaves me

When it has had enough

When I don’t give enough back

When I forget to feed and water it

I goes away

Until I coax it out again

With treats

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Oh to be a horse on a hill

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There is music you make happen

And music that happens to you

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My favorite thing about being an

Opera singer is that I get to stay a kid for just a little longer and sit in the floor with my friends in rehearsal

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All that I strive to be on this earth

Is kind

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I think about the day I run out of words

I think about the day they cease to come

I think about the day where I have painted every image

With every word in my brain

And they no longer spill out

The hemorrhage, the wound

Bound up

And I no longer need the words

Will I have 80 years

Or ten

Or maybe tomorrow I will lose them

Will I be grateful for their loss

Or will it just be another wound

Spilling out something else

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Breathlessly

Does it kill you to know that she’s into me

I just can’t take the proximity

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The lights on the stage managers coms

Look like eyes in the dark

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