Adrian Murphy Poems

When I am dreaming, I dream of sunsets spent with you
The day's warm caress slipping through the air
An opal sun dripping from the sky
Hands clasped together as one
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There are words I need to bury
Written on a fading purple note
Those words that scar – I love you, I miss you
X’s and O’s that oh so innocently wound my heart
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Only yesterday you were a child
I held your tiny hand full of a father’s joy,
Those twinkly blues eyes and winning smile
Stealing hearts at every turn
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Why stop the clock, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone?
Turn up the music and let the speakers hum,
Bring on the evening, let the revelers come.
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Hours and minutes have ponderously run their course.
My teenage excitement is barely contained,
Like an anxious father patiently waiting outside the maternity ward, I pace
Pace to exhaust those last few minutes
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Dark suits and solemn faces abound
Formal heels tap tapping on the marble as
Legal eagles pace to their clients
Here in the Great Hall the real deal is done.
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Do you think of me?

Do you think of me
When you dress each morning for school?
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Like star crossed lovers, with my true love I came
And there in fair Verona I wrote her name
Just four years later we set our scene
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
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Moments that lasted forever became a lifetime lost in an instant
A bonfire of dreams and memories blazes fiercely around me.
Must one win and the other lose?
Is all this pain going to change a single thing?
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