how many petalsmust you tearfrom my budbefore you carehow many timesmust I crywishing for the pastbefore you ask whyhow much painmust I takefearing the futurebefore you see me breakhow much?
closed my eyesshe was thereyoung and joyouscancer-freeeyes full of hope and wondernot clouded with painpanting of excitmentnot exhaustionfur soft and cleannot falling out in clumpswalking easilynot limping and fallingi missed hershe missed mei love hershe loves me
that i left youthat i wasn't worth itthat you couldn't care less.i'm sorrythat i don't comparethat i didn't do what he didthat you don't feel as proud.i'm sorryfor not finishing my homeworkfor messing up on your quizfor not being perfect.i'm sorrythat i didn't tell you i was hurtingthat i broke our caring promisethat i cut myself anyways.i'm sorry
Jolt of market-carts ;Steady drip of horses' hoofs on hard pavement ;A black sky lacquered over with blueness,And the lights of Battersea BridgePricking pale in the dawn.The beautiful hours are passingAnd still you sleep !Tired heart of my joy.Incurved upon your dreams.Will the day come before you have opened to me ?
One Life of so much Consequence!Yet I -- for it -- would pay --My Soul's entire income --In ceaseless -- salary --One Pearl -- to me -- so signal --That I would instant dive --Although -- I knew -- to take it --Would cost me -- just a life!The Sea is full -- I know it!That -- does not blur my Gem!It burns -- distinct from all the row --Intact -- in Diadem!The life is thick -- I know it!Yet -- not so dense a crowd --But Monarchs -- are perceptible --Far down the dustiest Road!
Come, my Celia, let us proveWhile we may the sports of love;Time will not be ours forever,He at length our good will sever.Spend not then his gifts in vain;Suns that set may rise again,But if once we lose this light,'Tis with us perpetual night.Why should we defer our joys?Fame and rumour are but toys.Cannot we delude the eyesOf a few poor household spies?Or his easier ears beguile,So removed by our wile?'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;But the sweet theft to reveal,