great idea. there are a lot of drop dead amazing poets in these parts. so here goes.

i don't know if it's my best, but it's my favourite.
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I TRIED

I saw the silver flicker
As it tore apart your flesh
Deep rich
Mahogany strength
I bled
As you breathed your last breath
You cried
As I died in your arms
In my mind
Your soul seeped through that hole in you skin
And I tried
I tried to push it back in
But I just wasn’t strong enough
Wasn’t fast enough
To stop time
And that metallic ball of hate
From entering you
Puncturing the part of you
That loved me
I tried to gather your love
But it was too thick
Too heavy for my hands to grasp
I’d been to stop it’s flow forever
But the more we grew together
The more your heart stretched
Until not even faith
Could keep fate
From busting through the door
He’d been knocking for awhile now
But I know you tried to ignore
His sounds and stares
And mine too
But how long did you think
You could dance around his bullets
When he shot me during our 2nd tango lesson
How thick was the shield
That covered your eyes and ears
---Excepting my white lies
Instead of the black truth---
Certainly not thick enough
Because that black ball of fate
Blasted through your flesh
Like sunlight through the water that was left
From the storm I cried
I cried
As I hovered 6 feet above us
Watching myself die in your arms
I tried to return your soul
But it was all around me
In me
I stole you
As I stole kisses from another
I stole us
And that black ball of lust
Was a ticking time bomb
That blew up in my face
And now I was left
To clean up the hate it created
And I tried
But your love was everywhere

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