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Words Speak When Actions Fail

A collection of poems about fear and indecision.

Jordan Kurtz
Oct 25, 2016
Southern Methodist University
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Words Speak When Actions Fail
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#1

Flesh

Blood
Bone

Absence


When will you be whole again?

#2

Are my conscience and I one body,

Or did God ordain us as two?

My head and heart are in contention

Not sure which I want to lose.

#3

There is strength in goodness but company in sin.

#4

Fate is for cynists

Chance is for realists

God is for the ambiguous

#5

Do you want me when

You wake

Do you want me when

You sleep

And though your eyes

Are closed

Can you feel my gaze

#6

He is a religion

Ignorance a sin

Heaven, Hell; Denial, Want

Tell me - which are you in


#7

Let the current take Them home

Because They are drifting leagues away

Keep Them moored here

Keep want at bay



#8

Don’t splinter the night

Don’t bloody the hands of day

You cannot leave me



#9

Religion is a skeleton until given flesh by faith.


#10

Why can’t I cure this phantom pain for you

A transient hell and then it’s through

A consequence of what you led me to do

Though it’s not what I wanted to choose

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