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A DYING POET, AND OTHER POEMS BY DONOVAN BALDWIN, AUGUST 19, 2024

a dying poet

cares less for the end of days

than the end of words

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she said she'd turn me on

if i told her my desires

i whispered her name


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he's tried so often

to write words that tell the world

how much he's loved her


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the beauty's in you

you're the one who cannot see

what i try to reveal


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poet writes outside the lines

defies tradition


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with sweet ink she writes

poetry upon petals

meant to be tasted


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i long to hold you

have you stay within my arms

forever and more


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she is too open

for the others to accept

so she turns to me


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at others' beck and call

I've never belonged to me

wanted for who i am


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made aware so often

i accept my worthlessness

in the eyes of the world


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once wrote poetry

it began to sadden me

so the urge left me


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the last thing i love

has now become a burden

i can no longer bear


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wait beside the tracks

for the train that never comes

the one bearing love


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no one can give me

what the fates have so decreed

will never be mine


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a whole life I've spent

wishing for someone to care

but it's too late now


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By Donovan Baldwin

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