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I close my eyes

And something dies

Reality doesn’t match these lies

I speak with sighs

My heart won’t rise

Held down with hidden ties

I’m not awake

I cannot break

Can’t let go for your sake

Is it fake

This choice I make

To give and give and never take

I love you so

I hope you know

I pray you never meet my inner foe

I want you to grow

To shine and glow

To be who you are and let it show

Regret by Toni L.A. Clegg

Heat map of moments

That took her breath away

Chronicle of choices

When it was wrong to stay

So many reasons

At the end of the day

Whispers of memories

What a price to pay

Nighttime by Toni L.A Clegg

I drift awake in darkness sweet

My toes caress your sleeping feet

I feel and hear your slumbering sigh

And swiftly how the hours fly

My fingers tangled in your hair

Our breath is mingling in the air

Together curled beneath the sheets

I feel your pulse, your heart it beats

My thoughts are far and yet so near

With hopes as poignant as my fear

depth perception… by Toni L.A. Cross

you think you see me

so clear

because you think I let

you near

I’m hiding in plain sight

my dear

the brightest smile and not

a tear

so bravely hiding

every fear

it’s all about how deep

you peer

Closet Confession by Toni Cross

Safe in darkness

Hiding here

Amongst the clothes

of yesteryear

My place of silent

solitude

Haven where none

will intrude

I hide from life

I hide from self

Beneath the shoes

up on the shelf

Closed in by dust

and memories

I freely breathe

where no one sees