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Little Girl Blue (PREVIEW)

Poetry

The Tommy thump nursery rhyme from a darker teenage perspective. All the little boy blue wanted to was sleep. This little girl blue wants the same. A 25 poem collection about growth, life, responsibility, love religion and family dynamics.

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Poem 8

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by RueCritic72

by RueCritic72

                                    
                                              Bed peace- insomnia
                          I fight with my bed sometimes 
In the nights when it wants to give me comfort 
I don't hesitate to deny it 
My heart that needs this desperately 
                          Still, it wraps its sheets around me 
While I toss and turn and punch a pillow 
(Just sleep!) 
Not until my green eyes and swollen feet decide to let me go 
                          So an hour passes 
I hear myself sigh in defeat 
Where will this war, these scars and my tears lead? 
To heaven? (maybe if I stop cussing) 
To hell? (nah, not even satan accepts my invitation) 
                          So why fight the comfort? 
Why do I fight with my bed? 
Perhaps I cannot believe it expects me to receive the gift that is peace
After I have fought for so long and war is all I know.