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Trading Shoes for Meat

I met her when my wallet sighed,   A hollow echo deep inside.   My dreams were big, my funds were thin,   But love, they say, can still begin. She liked the stars, the finer meals,   I offered walks and discount deals.   While others booked a Zanzibar flight,   We shared a soda, split just right. She laughed at memes, not wine and cheese,   I prayed my rent came with some ease.   Yet every time her phone would ring,   It cost more than my everything. They said that love can conquer all,   But never mentioned credit calls.   A dinner date? A costly feat—   That left me trading shoes for meat. Yet in her eyes, I sometimes see,   A warmth that doesn’t charge a fee.   But still I wonder, half in jest,   If love is broke, is broke still blessed? So here I sit, with heart aglow,   And overdraft in red to show—   T...

Trembled in Hope

He gave her flowers born of soul, not stem,
Words not rehearsed but written for them.
Built dreams with hands that trembled in hope,
Climbed every silence like a hanging rope.

He bent like branches in the storm’s sharp wail,
Hoping his truth would somehow prevail.
Each “I love you” felt like a test—
Never enough, never deemed best.

She wore his efforts like fading perfume,
Cold in the light, warm in the gloom.
And still he stayed, through wound and scar,
Chasing a heart that ran too far.

A good man breaks in silent rooms,
Where love turns grave and hope resumes.
For no pain cuts deeper than the fight
To prove your love when love takes flight.

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