For four decades death was a stranger to me. I empathised, I offered my shoulder but I did not really know death. Then, this year, death came. An uncle, an aunt, another aunt, a friend. Death came, they left. The clink of tea cups and teary smiles. Cold and waxy sunken cheeks. “No more pain …
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dedicated my best Romanian friend Vasile every morning your name is honey on my lips every afternoon your name is flower on my lips every night your name is beautiful melody onmy lips You are the most beautiful thing, in my life The post The Most Beautiful | Mónika Tóth appeared first on Best Poetry….
(Original song: JDG vocals and drums, Chicco Fresu guitar) Just ‘cos you’re to blame doesn’t mean you’re guilty.Just ‘cos it’s not your fault doesn’t mean you’re innocent.Just ‘cos you’ve got money doesn’t mean you’re worth a penny.Just ‘cos they said it well doesn’t mean they said what they meant. Just ‘cos you’ve got time doesn’t…
Some cannot hold their anger when it roars it’s mostly blinded inside unable to say one true thing about itself. “I find it sad,” you once said to me “How people can learn to be so petty, hold grudges, burn others with unkindness.” “They didn’t learn it, they chose it,” some other part of me…
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Someone is watching me, obsessed with vengeance. I think I saw them last night. Their eyes flared bright incandescent red with hatred for what I am. They watch me every waking hour. I walk outside wearing a kabuki mask of indifference riveted to my face, but I am afraid, very afraid. My friend shows no…
