Cheryl Townsend

AND ANOTHER


Last chance love

echoes in hotel rooms

under spinning ceilings

and over proof breath

It doesn't matter

who is who

or why

Everything's perfect

before that last blast

of reality fades

Dripping dreams

onto someone else's

laundry



STEP


The pain of his hatred

was deafening

but I always managed

to hear

Even now

it echoes against

my choices


In the mirror

I see who he created

and just as easily

took away


Sometimes I think

there should be a better

definition for the past

or is today merely

a reason for

deja vu


I want to close the cover

to somebody else's story

Shake my head sorry

Humble myself with pity


But that story

fills my diaries

chasing itself

and catching me


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