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Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #2291016
A collection of my autobiographical poems
#1058525 added November 1, 2023 at 9:32pm
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You don't get holidays with this job
Shattered glass
strewn over the floor,
like a hundred
shattered dreams
of what parenthood
might have been like.
Tearful apologies,
desperate attempts
to blame the other,
and neither consider
how exhausted
and sick of it all
I am.


Free verse. Written 20 February 2016.

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