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Shelter

Charles Michael Craven

the hardest person to forgive
is the one who stares right back in the mirror,
but at some point,
the reflection just has to let go.

my hands have had gun residue,
coke residue
weed residue
and that of pain.

I can still smell the metallic of the first pool of blood
I ever came across.
I can still see the first set of eyes
that rolled back in their head.
I can still feel the first snort, hit, injection
that was ever put in my body.

a decade of abuse has put me in here
and I wish I could say I wanted to stop,
but I still have more fun to have,
more hangovers to overcome
more people to lose.

the lone thing I am ready for
is a girl to call my own.

we can always wish.

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