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RED ROSE GONE BLACK

A collection of poetry



By Janeen Peckford



Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2010 Janeen Peckford

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Section 1 – MEMORIES


  1. A Memory

  2. Dead End

  3. Here’s The Story

  4. My Memories

  5. Where Are You?

  6. Former Friend

  7. Remembering


Section 2 – GUILT


  1. Is This Really Love

  2. Cheat

  3. Zen

  4. Only With You

  5. Can We Just Be Done With This?

  6. I Don’t Want To Know

  7. Red Rose Gone Black


Section 3 – LOVE


  1. Dangerous Love

  2. The Lying Truth

  3. Him

  4. I’ll Heal For You

  5. In Love Fire

  6. Sixty Seconds

  7. Your Smile


Section 4 – HIGH SCHOOL CLICHES


  1. The Truth of The Party

  2. Gave It All To You

  3. Pretty Boxes

  4. Monster

  5. The Big City

  6. The Rejects

  7. Quiet Room


Section 5 – HEARTBREAK


  1. Go Away

  2. If Your Heart Could Share

  3. Just A Touch

  4. The Journey To Embark

  5. I Don’t Know Love

  6. When Will Everyone Notice

  7. Flowers on a Broken Home


Section 6 – GRIEF AND LOSS


  1. Silent Falls

  2. Most Unlikely Person

  3. I Can’t Pick Up

  4. Cemetery

  5. Given Up

  6. You Were So Alone

  7. Words I Fail To Say


Section 7 – GRIEF AND LOSS


  1. On Repeat

  2. The Months

  3. Paranoid

  4. Turn Me Into You

  5. Leaving It All Behind

  6. Beaten Weak

  7. Turn Me Into You


Memories


1. A Memory


When a puzzle box is opened
you dump the pieces on the floor.
The picture seems much smaller
and you think there should be more.

That is like my memories and
I can't merge them into one.
I think back to every moment
puzzle pieces come undone.

I thought you were perfect,
but you lied to be redeemed.
And I just never realized
nothing was what it seemed.

One day you changed it for me-
everything I knew.
My thoughts - my only control,
changes despite what I do.

I remember hurting then.
Because of what you did.
And the lies you made for me
disguised what you had hid.

So you can continue lying but
there's no need to lie to me.
I'll struggle with my puzzle pieces
and the truth that I now see.


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